Mixing Night - Live Q&A with Ken Lewis
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Join Ken Lewis, who has credits on 104 Gold & Platinum records and 30 years experience in the major label music industry. In these free Mixing Night Audio livestreams, Ken answers a wide range of questions on music production, mixing, career development, demonstrates some cool techniques, shares insights, challenges you with ear training exercises and offers practical advice.

This episode covers:

00:00 - Intro
01:23 - Sprint Mix: “Killer Queen” by Queen!
12:51 - Sprint Mix Review and Effects Used
15:01 - Getting familiar with flanging and how to use a flanger
17:53 - Breakdown: Queen’s “Killer Queen” Original Multi-tracks
18:40 - Yes, Ken. Mike Stone did record “Killer Queen” for Queen’s 3rd studio album “Sheer Heart Attack” (1974)
19:13 - How did you use Green HAAS on “Killer Queen”?
21:47 - How do you create flanging?
26:08 - The warmth in the vocals sounds beautiful! What’s some advice you would give to getting warmer/softer vocals?
28:17 - How do you set up your speakers, especially for bass frequencies? After mixing, and I play my songs on other speakers, I have too much bass signal in my mixes
45:02 - Who is Led Tasso? Len Kewis knows.
46:40 - Update: Name The GreenHAAS Plant Monster Contest!
50:09 - Marcus Manderson Mixing Night Man of Mystery - Free Videos for Your Production
54:14 - Shout Out to Ben Ellery, IK Multimedia, & Bob Horn
56:20 - Announcement - iamTALK’s Debut Release “TALK to me” November 19th
58:11 - Tips from the GreenHAAS
1:09:40 - Ear Training - Rapid Fire Frequencies with “Killer Queen”
1:19:40 - Production Techniques - The Making Of A Real Orchestra In A Pop Song (Part II)
1:37:25 - What kind of bowing technique is being used?
1:48:45 - Live Orchestra or MIDI? - A Sneak Peak Behind The Scenes
2:03:00 - Raw As Recorded Mono Center Panned Unmixed “Killer Queen” Tracks
2:04:54 - Outro
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