Mixing is a technical realization of an emotional thing, right?

Like a good mix in my opinion should be a song has now achieved the peak ability to

transmit with the intended emotion as to the listener.

Technically speaking, all you're doing is bouncing and leveling and making it work on

a bad stereo, but like actually what you're doing is emotionally interpreting the presentation

of this piece of music.

Now the real truth is that if you're turning, if you're the one that's saying go to the

master or like the one that's like posting it online, like you mixed it, you're the mixer.

So everybody's a mixer at this point in history.

I think the biggest thing that for me personally has been such a lucky thing is that I got to see

a lot of people who might deeply, deeply respect break rules.

Hello everyone, Kirk here with another conversation style episode.

This one is a chat that I had with composer, producer, bassist, and master mix engineer

Brian Bender.

Bender has worked with a ton of amazing artists on a ton of amazing records over the years.

He worked his way up from a journeyman engineer in New York to today when he runs his own

studio in Los Angeles, the mother brain.

He's also co-founder of the indie record label Reenbow Blonde Records.

Does all kinds of work in film and TV and video games, he's just everywhere.

But you may have never heard his name.

He's just one of the countless amazingly talented people who get up every day, sit down

in the studio and make music.

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