Grammy Award Winning Producer, Engineer, and Mixer, Jacquire King, has worked with some of the world’s most influential artists in every role you can imagine in a recording studio. From being an acclaimed recordist to mixing and producing multi-platinum records (9X in the case of Kings Of Leon) by superstars like Kaleo, Modest Mouse, Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Buddy Guy, Cold War Kids, MuteMath, Melissa Etheridge, and James Bay.
In this pureMix exclusive, Jacquire King recalls the session for James Bay’s “Let It Go” and breaks down each element of the song; discussing the decisions he made as the producer while he creates his mix with expansive detail on his approach to topics such as:
Mix architecture and routing
Reducing track counts and removing extraneous tracks
Reference meters
Mixing acoustic and electronic percussion elements
Polarity and phase relationships to ensure the speakers are “pushing” and not“pulling”
Gain staging the 2 bus
Eq'ing the 2 bus
The importance of automation to add movement to your mixes
Once you have seen how Jacquire approaches this well-crafted song, download the actual stems and practice what you have learned.
Watch Jacquire King mixing James Bay's "Let It Go", only on puremix.net
Software
Altiverb 7
BF-76
Dyn3 De-Esser
Empirical Labs Arouser
EQ III 7-Band
Massenburg Design Works EQ5 AAX
Mod Delay III
Pro Subharmonic
PSP Vintage Warmer 2
Soundtoys Decapitator
Soundtoys EchoBoy
Soundtoys MicroShift
UAD 1176 Rev A
UAD AKG BX 20
UAD AMS RMX16
UAD API 550A
UAD Chandler Limited Curve Bender
UAD dbx 160
UAD EMT 140
UAD EMT 250
UAD Fairchild 670
UAD Fairchild 660
UAD Helios 69
UAD Manley Variable Mu
UAD Neve 1073
UAD Neve 33609
UAD Precision Limiter
UAD Pultec EQP-1A
UAD Roland RE-201
UAD SSL G Bus Compressor
UAD Studer A800
UAD Teletronix LA-2A
UAD Trident A-Range
VUMT Duo
Waves Aphex Vintage Exciter
Waves CLA-76
Waves J37
Waves PAZ- Analyzer
Waves TG12345
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