Grammy Award Winning Producer, Engineer, and Mixer, Jacquire King, has worked with some of the world’s most influential artists in every role you can imagine in a recording studio. From being an acclaimed recordist to mixing and producing multi-platinum records (9X in the case of Kings Of Leon) by superstars like Kaleo, Modest Mouse, Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Buddy Guy, Cold War Kids, MuteMath, Melissa Etheridge, and James Bay.

In this pureMix exclusive, Jacquire King recalls the session for James Bay’s “Let It Go” and breaks down each element of the song; discussing the decisions he made as the producer while he creates his mix with expansive detail on his approach to topics such as:

• Mix architecture and routing

• Reducing track counts and removing extraneous tracks

• Reference meters

• Mixing acoustic and electronic percussion elements

• Polarity and phase relationships to ensure the speakers are “pushing” and not“pulling”

• Gain staging the 2 bus

• Eq'ing the 2 bus

• The importance of automation to add movement to your mixes

Once you have seen how Jacquire approaches this well-crafted song, download the actual stems and practice what you have learned.

Watch Jacquire King mixing James Bay's "Let It Go", only on puremix.net

Software

• Altiverb 7

• BF-76

• Dyn3 De-Esser

• Empirical Labs Arouser

• EQ III 7-Band

• Massenburg Design Works EQ5 AAX

• Mod Delay III

• Pro Subharmonic

• PSP Vintage Warmer 2

• Soundtoys Decapitator

• Soundtoys EchoBoy

• Soundtoys MicroShift

• UAD 1176 Rev A

• UAD AKG BX 20

• UAD AMS RMX16

• UAD API 550A

• UAD Chandler Limited Curve Bender

• UAD dbx 160

• UAD EMT 140

• UAD EMT 250

• UAD Fairchild 670

• UAD Fairchild 660

• UAD Helios 69

• UAD Manley Variable Mu

• UAD Neve 1073

• UAD Neve 33609

• UAD Precision Limiter

• UAD Pultec EQP-1A

• UAD Roland RE-201

• UAD SSL G Bus Compressor

• UAD Studer A800

• UAD Teletronix LA-2A

• UAD Trident A-Range

• VUMT Duo

• Waves Aphex Vintage Exciter

• Waves CLA-76

• Waves J37

• Waves PAZ- Analyzer

• Waves TG12345

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