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What do I gotta do?
Oh I gotta hit the button,

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maybe I should start
this little boy.

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Welcome, I'm Chris Lord-Alge
and welcome to my studio Mix LA

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here in beautiful
Tarzana, California.

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Today we are going to deconstruct a mix
for Mix With The Masters.

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A song called "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
by a little band called Green Day.

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We are not going to try to mix in-the-box,
we are going to mix CLA style:

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analog console, analog gear,
analog everything.

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The only thing digital is obviously
we're playing from Pro Tools

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and that's
our tape machine.

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So here we go
mixing CLA style.

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On this console you've got built in EQ,
you've got built in compression.

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On the snare we're
also going to an outboard.

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We'll go to the outboard EQ
and compressor,

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which will be

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Manley number two here

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so adding an EQ there
and then a limiter right here.

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A little slap on him.

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So slap number one,

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Slap number two.

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Now people say:

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"Chris is that quick,
that's simple that easy?"

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Yes it is cause
for all you people mixing

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you really become a mixer
after hundreds of mixes

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hundreds of years
of practicing time

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and then you do less and less
and get better mixes OK?

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I guarantee a lot of you out there are
beginning mixing think that

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"ooh I’ll put a plug-in on this
and a plug-in on that,

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a compressor on this,
a limiter on that"

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That is all nonsense.

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Mixing is balancing the instruments,
balancing the vocals with nothing,

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with no tools maybe one effect
maybe one reverb.

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Start where I started where
you had nothing but the songs

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and the balance to make it
to something.