But in the end, you have to figure out how to apply those tricks to your own workflow.' You can also get little nuggets from reading articles, like this one, and watching YouTube videos. It can take mixing a hundred songs, and you get better and better with each one. But I think that to become a good mixer you have to do it hands-on and practise it a lot.
'I learnt mixing 101 when I did the degree in audio production at college. Profitt also mixes his own cinematic production tracks, but again, he says, it's by default, and he had no aspirations to become a mixer.
By the end of the recording and arrangement process, the track's 85–percent done, and then I do the final mix touches at the end.' I mix the tracks as I build them I never put the faders at zero at the end and start over. As a result, I ended up by default being the mixer on most of the songs. You listen to a song for so long and you hear it one way, and you don't want it to change.
You can download a hi-res large version in the box at the end of this article.NF's label engaged a few professional mixers on his debut album, Mansion (2015), including the legendary Manny Marroquin on one track, but, explains Profitt, 'Nate gets demo-itis, like most artists. This composite screen capture shows the entire Pro Tools Edit Window for Tommee Profitt's mix of 'The Search'. Written & produced by Nate Feuerstein & Tommee Profitt.
