Drums, bass, vocals, guitars mixing techniques for John Mayer

Multi Platinum mixing engineer Manny Marroquin reveals the mixing techniques he used for John Mayer's "I don't trust myself". For more info, go to www.waves.com

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• mixing
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• bass
• keyboards
• manny
• marroquin
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• john
• mayer

[ThuSkyline]

@oowetwillyoo

Of course. As a band, you gotta have a good engineer. Like, you can write the greatest song in the world, but if you have an engineer that cuts the low frequencies and max's out the hi's, and doesn't know anything about how to properly mix drums, you're not gonna be sounding that great. Basically, a Les Paul can sound like crud being played through a 5 watt practice amp.

[BouvrieMax]

this video has saved my mixes. leaving shit alone in the long run makes EVERY thing sound better. thank you.

[jorgepeterbarton]

leaving things alone is a good tip. when people start recording, usually their playing too, and then they just concentrate on learning all the 'recording' and forget the actual song arrangement and playing. most the time the aim of recording is to be as unintrusive as possible. and sticking a mic infront is just a way of getting sound to your desk, so control sounds on your amp and guitar instead and leave it alone after.

[mgsg50]

@Oneness100 but they had the rooms. i can probably speak for a lot of us when i say that the places we are stuck recording in are not the greatest. i try to put foam all around the things im recording but i am not allowed to alter the room im in at all. im still stuck having to travel to my parents house to record anything since my apartment is so small. i have to deal with being in a basement with a furnace running and a load of laundry going 10 feet away from me.

[loborneta]

4:44 burp!?!? wtf? :D

[Oneness100]

I don't know how to say this, but why can't music be recorded with just plain old fashion good miking techniques in a good room and just have sound good without any modifications whatsoever? they didn't have all of these fancy plug-ins when the Beatles did their best albums did they?

[znerol1]

brilliant sound engineer, nevertheless I feel his verbal output in this video is little more than incoherent rambling... well, probably what most engineers would do if put on the spot about their mixes..

[jawsrock1]

...so what does this sound like in concert?

[KEYiENenWAY]

@Tommygrules I pity you lol replace your ears asap

[mcseusa]

do this and do that ????

[WilliamHGBray]

you rule dude. :)

[danielshlomo123]

4:30 wtf?!