MixWithTheMasters TONY MASERATI, K.FLAY DREAMERS Workshop #3

Join mix engineer Tony Maserati at Studios La Fabrique to explore multi-track sessions of K.Flay and Maggie Koerner. Throughout this nine-part workshop, Maserati breaks down his various approaches towards enhancing each individual part in the producer's sessions. Learn more about processing 808 bass, kick, snare, percussion and vocals in the edgy, trap-inspired song 'Dreamers' from K.Flay’s 2018 Grammy-nominated Best Engineered Album. Broaden your palette on creative ways to treat electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano in the soulful, blues-infused 'Shadows' by Maggie Koerner. Step-by-step, Tony Maserati demonstrates his ITB techniques for EQ, compression, tube saturation, harmonic distortion, tape emulation, stereo enhancement, signal doubling, shifting pitch, blending samples and adding effects. He also refers to the important topics of phase coherency, mono compatibility, edit artefacts, frequency masking and tonal development.

808 BASS
Introduction, EQ, tape & tube saturation, parallel processing, pops & clicks

KICK DRUM
Kick & bass relationship, section-dependant EQ, level automation

808 SNARE
Compression, EQ, sample layering, section-dependant processing

ELECTRIC GUITAR
Tube saturation, compression, pedal distortion, plate reverb, delay, doubling

ACOUSTIC GUITARS
ADT simulation, shelf filtering, compression, tape delay, pitch alteration, lo-fi

LEAD VOCAL
Stem management, subtractive EQ, parallel compression, harmonics, effects, phase discussion

BG VOCALS
Blend options, de-essing, EQ, doubling, compression, saturation, reverb, tonal development

CLAPS
Widening mono claps, processing hats, tambourine and shaker, effects level automation

PIANO
EQ, widening, compression, excitement, treatment variations, automation, tape discussion