My Mixing Workflow (How to structure creativity)

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Topics discussed

• Creativity
• Mixing
• Music production
• Spatial audio
• Creative Structure
• Organizational Techniques
• Best Practices
• Creative Flow
• Dolby Atmos
• Color Coding
• Sound Design

Host note

Selected moments

• Introduction to Workflow 0:01 Introducing the topic of workflow in music mixing and how to balance creativity with a structured approach.
• Mixing Process Explained 2:17 Elaborating on what mixing entails, likening it to baking a cake with different ingredients.
• Chaos and Order in Mixing 5:15 Discussing the necessary chaos in production and how it transitions into the structured approach needed for mixing.
• Organizing Tracks 4:32 The importance of organizing tracks in a mixing session to create better sound cohesion.
• The Role of Instruments 6:45 How different instruments contribute to the overall mix and the concept of 'glue' in mixing.
• Adapting to New Technologies 12:01 Challenges and opportunities presented by new mixing technologies like Dolby Atmos.

Selected excerpts

What is workflow? How do you get faster? How do you get better at mixing? How do you streamline things?

There's something that we can take from that corporate kind of thing and bring it into music. But there is a line. There's a place where it goes too far and then things start getting sterile or repetitive.

So I take the foundational elements. I organize them first, and I clean everything. I go through it and I am the maid.

I think when you produce too sterile, it doesn't work for me. It makes the whole thing too procedural.

Mixing without the bass changes the way that everything else sounds, mixing without the drums changes the way everything else sounds.

The goal is then I have to think about them anymore so you can actually make some damn music instead of like thinking like I'm reading an owner's manual.

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