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Hey O!

I'm wondering if you could enlighten us budding engineers and producers on how a typical mix session looks for you. Like do you use Top-down Techniques etc? What do you think really let's your mixes shine?

I ask because your mixes are so dense, with a lot of stuff up the front, yet you can still hear almost everything that is happening, even the background stuff is fairly prominent. Does this come from a few techniques that you've picked up in mixing, or is it strategic placing of sounds in the making of the tune itself? And could you let us know a few of these badass techniques that you think may fix commonly heard problems in up and coming producers tunes?

Cheers buddeh, keep on doing what you're doing, you're a true g!

I suggest you go and see Opiuo band live and tell me they don't play it live. They're all mega talented at what they do, it's no different than a rock/metal band using a backing track for their samples, except the samples Opiuo would use are only the things that can't be reproduced live without having 8 arms and legs altering different effects and sound layers.

Open your mind a little, music is music no matter how it's performed.

Just using that term as an example haha. Top down is instead of mixing individual channels first, you start mixing on a buss , like all/some drum tracks, which is the top, and then get started on the individual tracks, which is "working down".

Definitely do it man, I know there's a ton of producers and engineers out there who are experienced enough and have crazy good ideas in their minds and get bit disillusioned when it comes to making their shit sound as close to how they had imagined it, like it's close but they need to know a few go-to processes.

Ups on the mono tip though, do you find it's easier to see/hear what sits nicer in mono because it reveals phase issues?