Today I'm Having a GAS™ with Jeff Ellis, a Grammy Awardwinning recording engineer and multiple time Grammynominated mix engineer. We speak indepth about Frank Ocean and Jeff's more recent work with artists like Doja Cat and d4vd.

More on Jeff Ellis here: https://jeffellisworldwide.com

“I got my start at the famed EastWest Studios in Hollywood California, (formerly United/Western Recorders) where artists such as Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys once recorded. I worked with countless top artists during my tenure at Eastwest and rose through the ranks to become one of their main engineers."

In 2011, Jeff left Eastwest Studios to engineer Frank Ocean's channel ORANGE. The Album was a critical success, earning him a 2012 Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album, as well as nominations for Album of the Year and Record of the Year. The album includes the Platinum selling single 'Thinkin' Bout You' which was his first platinum selling mix. Jeff would continue as Frank Oceans engineer during the recording of his follow up album Blonde.

After the release of Blonde, Jeff transitioned to focusing on mixing and has since worked with many other notable artists such as Doja Cat, JOJI, The Neighborhood, Kali Uchis, Rico Nasty, Snow Aalegra, Omar Apollo, Vance Joy and many more.

In 2021 Jeff returned home to EastWest studios as a permanent resident mixer in Studio 4.

Having a GAS™ is the podcast that talks to the great and the good of the creative industries, and in particular finds out what makes great music for film, for TV, for advertising; for dancing to, for cooking to, f*cking to, and more...

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00:00 Introduction
00:04 Frank Ocean's Channel Orange
04:48 Imposter Syndrome
06:24 Training at EastWest
06:58 Internet Tutorials
09:27 Training at EastWest (continued)
11:15 Mix with the Masters
12:10 Jeff's Evolving Mix Process
13:09 Making Stems
23:24 'Demoitis'
25:06 Wet vs Dry Stems
27:26 What makes a 'good' mixer
33:42 Simplicity can be Key
36:00 Mixing with Feeling
38:05 'Mixer Brain'
43:04 Frank Ocean's Blonde
44:41 Fear
50:11 Future work
51:17 Clipping in different DAWs
54:01 Educating the Next Generation
54:21 Over Compressing
59:26 'Mixer Brain' (continued)
01:02:23 Outro