The Mix Room
A high-end studio hiding in a bedroom.
One channel of outboard typical for an Alan Jackson session.
Time instead of money. Capture clean, solid, whole performances with good microphones; bring out the tones with very good equipment.
Re-amping and mixing.
After the band has tracked at Matt's, the takes come here to be re-amped through analog outboard and mixed in a treated room. Minimal compression. Priority is emotional preservation, not correction.
The ceiling cloud and wall traps do the unseen work. The monitors translate. The Avantone keeps the mix honest. Mixing happens together — Chris and Matt make every call in the same room, the same way they make tracking calls.
Full gear list PDF — coming
Conversion
- Burl B16 Mothership Dante (BAD4M, BDA16) — master-grade
- Burl B32 Vancouver — analog summing
Master bus
- Neve Portico II Master Bus Processor
Compression
- Purple Audio MC77 — FET
- Retro 176 — tube
Monitoring
- Grace m905 — monitor controller
- Neumann KH310 + KH750 DSP — 3-way nearfield + sub
- Avantone Mixcube — translation reference
Treatment
- GIK Acoustics GTS 4×6 cloud over mix position
- Wall and side traps
DI & re-amp
- Palmer DI Box
- ProStudio PS96DB25i patchbay