<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I just had to share this <b class=""><i class="">confidentially</i></b> with you.</div><div class="">This is a note from a very famous mixing engineer to me:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“The way people want to hear stuff these days, i had to try to make these loud. I used various things on "playback only" to inflate the mixes but nothing was printed, and in the end the band was cool with the hot level. I just ended up having to push the desk and the parallel processing to the limit. On the songs that I felt might be too hot, I lowered all the desk faders and sometimes the source material and called the mix a "low level" version. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please DO NOT use these low level versions in their entirety. <u class="">Only</u> in the spots where u think u may need to get rid of some crackle or whatever my mix chain is doing under duress and brought out later. I only did them in case you had to drastically fix some of these mixes and it brings out the crackles and crispies. then the lower level might allow u some room to cut a piece in or whatever....only where needed if at all.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What a discouraging way to start the day! This is so no-right.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Bob L.</div></body></html>