Pro Workshop: Mixdoctor with Prof Strech

On Tuesday October 13th I went to the Mixdoctor pro workshop that Prof Strech holds every week.
The workshop is in the SSL studio and it was my first time in there. I was very impressed when I saw the mixing desk and the studio monitors mounted on the wall. Strech came into the studio and set up everything so he could beginn. Students handed him USB sticks with their songs on them and he gave them feedback, mixed them, mastered them or both. I really enjoyed listening to the stuff the other students were making and got a bit of inspiration from that.

When it was my turn I gave him a remix that I finished back in July and hadn't mastered yet. He listened to it first and gave me some feedback, the main points were:

- some parts of the song are too busy

- too much sharp high frequency in the sides of the mix

- too much low energy in the drop

Then he mastered my track,

I watched him during the whole process of using various brainworx plugins, the SSL desk and external analog plugins from the racks to get the right sound.

It was really cool to watch but I have no idea how to use all those plugins and really want to learn, so I decided to book a tutorial with Steve on tuesday.

After Strech was finished he explained the whole process and the steps he took and what plugin did what but it was all a bit too much to take in and I will try to take notes on the next session I attend.

What I believe was the most useful thing I learned during the workshop is:

"Less is more"

It's often better to leave more space in a track for it to breathe and make use of every single sound rather than stacking tons of them on top of eachother

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