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Hey there and welcome back for another mix.

This time we'll be looking at a heavy rock track.

This is from a band called Lazarus, Done by a guy named Mike Aguado, really great

producer engineer. And we're again one of these tricky

situations where the rough mix sounds pretty good.

So we have to try to beat it.

What are we going to do to try to beat

it? In this one, I am actually reinventing

the mix a little bit.

I'm taking a different approach and going

for a slightly different aesthetic than Mike did in his original mix.

And a lot of the mixes in this course you'll hear me saying.

Don't necessarily need to reinvent the wheel.

We can, you know, take what's good about the rough mix, listen to it, and then

figure out what can we change here to, you know, what are like the two or three

elements that if we improve those would really make the client happy, and maybe

one of the five elements that we could improve a little bit further than that.

We don't necessarily have to restart things totally from scratch.

We can use a rough mix as a template and add to it.

In this case, I want to do at least one where I reimagine things and part of the

reason I want to do that.

I was using a totally new set of plugins

I'd never used before.

I have this session here open in Pro

Tools. If you don't have Pro Tools, you can get

a Pro Tools demo trial and open the session for yourself.

And I'm using all of these plugins from isotope.

I'm using their music production Suite, Pro bundle.

And the cool thing about this bundle, you can get a 7 day free trial on it.

So even if you don't have Pro Tools and don't have these isotope plugins, you

just get a trial of each and you can open up this session and pick up where I left

off and I also wanted to show off.

And tools that are not stock plugins in

the data, which is what we're doing for every other session.

Oi was also guided a little bit by what are some of the things that you can do

with these plugins that are a little unusual and a little different from stock

plugins. And I found that it was really easy to

totally reimagine vocal effect sounds very quickly in this mix using

particularly the vocal plugin nectar.

So I really did reapproach the vocals

fairly significantly. But again, the biggest thing is still

coming down and listening to our original rough mix, figuring out what works about

it, what we can improve on, if any.

And in your own time you'll want to

listen to this compared to references that the client actually loves the sound

of. I'll bring up a few names for you, let me

go over here into iTunes, and I think I actually have.

View of the tracks we're listening to a band called Big Spring Band called

Oceansize Band called Perfect Circle.

I think we probably ended up going more

in the direction of the ocean size vibe, which is a little brighter than his track

relative to say perfect circle, which is maybe a little closer to where he started

off where perfect circle, maybe a slightly more buried vocals, slightly

kind of darker sounds.

But even compared to the darkest records

here I felt like in context his was maybe a little bit darker, a little mushy.

So I wanted to go a little brighter on this track.

Which is something that's happened on a bunch of these.

I'd love to do more sessions like this where we use a subscription bundle that

you can easily get a free trial to.

If we do any course addons I might do

that, so feel free to write in with your request if there's any subscription

bundles you want me to try to do a full mix on.

That could be a lot of fun if we were ever to do an update here, but here is 1

using nothing but isotopes music production suite probe bundle, so let's

check that out first.

Listening to down here the original mix

from Mike Aguado.

Let's hear it together and figure out

what needs to change.

What a strange creature you are today.

Let me look you up and down.

Study all of your features and your

brain. Let me begin inside your body feeling.

Only 10 is your name november.

Yes, ice cream stretchers ohh make it

hard so I think you get the idea of what's going on here.