I started mixing in the mid 60’s in a “real” studio and have continued to the present from mono reel-to-reel to sound-on-sound reel to multi-track cassette to digital recorders to DAWS.

I’ve never mixed a single song with cans. Given our genres I want to envision myself in the middle seat on the third row of a small club with excellent acoustics. That’s our soundstage. Not for everybody I completely understand but it works for what J&B want to hear.

Regarding mastering for years we’ve used mostly Ozone modules and we tweak each module to the song (sometimes we will use a reference song). I don’t give a crap about what AI algorithms think our song should sound like. We listen in a good room on our Kali Monitors. Then in the living room with Polk Audio Towers/Yamaha Sub and then in the Subaru that also has a sub. And we check it through our Apple mono HomePod speaker. Pardon the ramble. FWIW, YMMV and I’m not ant all implying we are “right” - just the way we do it.

Bud

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