Cooking Steaks & Hybrid Mixing: Advice from QOTSA, Soundgarden Mixer

Jul 04, 2018 | 36,994 Views

Producer, mixer and recording engineer Joe Barresi explains how he gets the best of both worlds — analog and digital — by combining hardware and plugins, and shares valuable advice for music producers/mixers. Watch to find out how cooking steaks fits into the mix.

We've made an instructional series with Joe Barresi! More videos in the series:

Cooking Steaks & Hybrid Mixing: Advice from QOTSA, Soundgarden Mixer
Mixing Drums: Look at the Entire Kit
Mixing Drums: Explosive Drum Room Sound
Mixing Drums: #1 Tip for Snare Reverb
Mixing Drums: Using Guitar Pedals
Mixing Bass: Tips for Mixing a Fat Bass Tone
Mixing Guitars: Tips for Wide, Upfront, Crunchy Guitars
Mixing Vocals: Depth, Excitement & Ear Candy

Also check out Joe's ProSound Workshop

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