Today I want to share with you my key takeaways from the most recent video series with Michael Brauer on Puremix.com. I have huge respect for Brauer and his work and workflow have inspired me a lot over the last few years. However, there are some pitfalls with the way he works and I want to share why his methods might be more complicated to the more novice mixer to implement. I'll talk about the relevance of production quality, and the mindset of a good mixer as well.

00:00 Intro
00:45 Brauerize Method Overview
01:26 The Tone Of Compressors
02:33 Bounce and Feel
02:55 The importance of Assistants
03:35 Gain Staging
04:00 Serial Processing
04:54 Vocal Chain
06:08 Before/After comparison
06:50 How much do professionals do?
07:12 Aggressive Master Bus Processing
07:32 The Importance of Headroom
08:18 Respecting the music and working hard!
08:44 Top Mixers work with Top Productions
08:56 What is the Intention of the Artist?
09:39 Don't Buy Plugins
10:14 The minimum you need
10:37 Am I switching?
11:34 The Thought Process Matters Most!
12:09 Understanding Concepts
12:22 Mixing Course Shoutout!
12:30 Outro

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