Step forward 29-year old Dan Lancaster, originally from Hertfordshire, now based in London. As expected, this was an instant hit with the semi-professional home-studio owners who make up a large part of SOS’s readership what was more surprising was learning that some well-known mix engineers too have used these details to rebuild mixes done by their colleagues and try to pick up new tricks.Īnd now, appropriately in the magazine’s 30th anniversary issue, Inside Track has its first graduate. The idea was that Inside Track would offer detailed insights into the techniques and working methods employed by the world’s top mixers of high-charting recordings. When this series was introduced in 2007, one of our main goals was to address exactly this issue. It’s no longer an option for most newcomers to learn on the job, following the traditional career path from tea boy or runner to assistant engineer, so aspiring engineers are forced to look for other ways to obtain this precious know-how. The decline of the studio industry over the last 15 years or so has placed in jeopardy a rich culture of music recording and mixing expertise, built up over decades. Where does a young mix engineer learn the techniques to deliver hit rock mixes? In Dan Lancaster’s case, right here!
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