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Don't make decisions based on
what you're used to doing

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or what you think
is a format.

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Deal with what's
in front of you.

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And for this record,
what's in front of me,

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this was the mix
that I feel good about.

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Hey, guys. My name is
Leslie Brathwaite,

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and I'm here with
Mix With The Masters.

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Today, we're going to run
through one of my mixes.

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I'm actually going to
mix this song live.

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I hadn't
premixed this.

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So I'm just going to dive in
and what I would do

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in my mix flow and just
work through this song.

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This sound takes up so much
real-estate in the song.

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It's really the whole vibe of the track,
this Rhodes, kind of key sound.

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So it's important to really
have that vibe and groove

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but not really
mess with the vocal.

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I learned about this plug-in
from David Guetta actually.

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I might do
a little crunching.

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I may back
certain levels down.

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And that plug-in,
I put on the master bus.

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Sometimes it can act as just
a glue to push things together

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and bring things in your face and up,
and I kind of like it.

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I like how it sounds
a lot of times.

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You try to fix the mix and try
to add reverb and do all this stuff,

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but if you fix the basics,
it's always about the fundamentals.

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It's always about coming back to what
you know is fundamental to a song.

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It has to
feel right.

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It has to
move right.

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The mix then becomes kind of
secondary in that sense

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once you get all
the other things in place.