What’s keeping you up?

This past weekend we had Married Life Live at our Church. It’s an event that married couples attend to have fun and give attention to their marriages. I always love these events cause we get to do songs that span all kinds of genres and it really stretches my mixing.

Here was the set list….fun stuff!

So I thought I would share a little insight into my world of mixing….some of you have been asking…so here goes.

For this event I wanted to take some risks. I feel like I’ve been in mixing rut so i thought….why not…let’s go all out and go for it.

I started with the list above in itunes and just listened to the originals. I got used to them the way they sounded and listed the details that I thought were significant. As I listened I just made notes. I threw in my molds and just started typing all the things that i thought I could do. Here’s the list:

Just simple things but they really helped me as a guide when I sat down at the console. Even while I mixed I had this playlist rolling in itunes and i could at any time just solo the song i was working on and listen.

This is the most fun I’ve had mixing in a while and it really challenged me to get out of the usuals everytime i heard a kick drum.

What do you do that helps you mix?