I think he gives a pretty honest course. Certainly doesn't take the approach of "right, here's what you do...". He just shows you what he does. I've long suspected that mixing is not the be all and end all of a song. Stratton says this too. It's key...and its not key. For anything to be worthwhile you need a good song played great. Simple as. Jack Stratton is mixing elite level music played by elite level musicians. When he shows his sessions most the heavy lifting is being done by the people playing the song. That's where the magic is. Yes there's stuff that needs doing to bring out the best in that but the performance and the song has to be locked in first. Check out his busses, his channel plgins and master etc. All pretty simple stuff. There's creative decisions and nice decision making. But he keeps it pretty simple.
For sure, I agree with this completely. Which is why I basically said it could have been a 5 minute CZcams video for everyone and not a $300 masterclass or whatever it cost.
@@tytrdev Very expensive yes. Anyone looking for the nuts and bolts of mixing getting into the weeds from gain staging to compression settings and reverb how to's etc would probably be very disappointed. It's not that kind of a 'course'. But for, what was it, 5 or 6 hours of one of the best song writers, band leaders, drummers, musicians, mixers in the world today talking to you at basically an advanced level...it's pretty great.
For the most part I’d honestly say not really. Not in any sort of precise way. He does show some EQ curves and talk about his overall philosophy. There are fundamental things about his approach that will only work with that particular sound though. You can’t really apply 90% of what he’s doing to e.g. prog. I realize most of his audience won’t care about that, and it was still neat to understand his approach either way.
Yes and no! He’s definitely doing some stuff to it afterwards but it really only falls into like 3 or 4 basic categories of plugins, accompanied by some stylistic specifics for that retro funk sound he’s going for.
I think he gives a pretty honest course. Certainly doesn't take the approach of "right, here's what you do...". He just shows you what he does. I've long suspected that mixing is not the be all and end all of a song. Stratton says this too. It's key...and its not key. For anything to be worthwhile you need a good song played great. Simple as. Jack Stratton is mixing elite level music played by elite level musicians. When he shows his sessions most the heavy lifting is being done by the people playing the song. That's where the magic is. Yes there's stuff that needs doing to bring out the best in that but the performance and the song has to be locked in first. Check out his busses, his channel plgins and master etc. All pretty simple stuff. There's creative decisions and nice decision making. But he keeps it pretty simple.
For sure, I agree with this completely. Which is why I basically said it could have been a 5 minute CZcams video for everyone and not a $300 masterclass or whatever it cost.
@@tytrdev Very expensive yes. Anyone looking for the nuts and bolts of mixing getting into the weeds from gain staging to compression settings and reverb how to's etc would probably be very disappointed. It's not that kind of a 'course'. But for, what was it, 5 or 6 hours of one of the best song writers, band leaders, drummers, musicians, mixers in the world today talking to you at basically an advanced level...it's pretty great.
Does the course cover basics like gain staging and using EQ or are the screen recordings mostly showing the plugin settings used for certain sounds?
For the most part I’d honestly say not really. Not in any sort of precise way. He does show some EQ curves and talk about his overall philosophy. There are fundamental things about his approach that will only work with that particular sound though. You can’t really apply 90% of what he’s doing to e.g. prog. I realize most of his audience won’t care about that, and it was still neat to understand his approach either way.
basically: fix it in pre?
Yes and no! He’s definitely doing some stuff to it afterwards but it really only falls into like 3 or 4 basic categories of plugins, accompanied by some stylistic specifics for that retro funk sound he’s going for.