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Nathan "Mick" Guzauski is an American multi-platinum mixing engineer and sound engineer. He has nine Grammy Awards and eleven nominations. His work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, easy listening, funk and hip hop.
- When you first started in audio, you mixed live sound. Did this inform your later career as a mixer? Oh yeah, quite a bit. I did a lot of orchestral sound, and trying to translate all of those instruments through a big PA system taught me a lot about balance and how things really sound.
- How does one sharpen their skills to better recognize the blending of timbres? One way to really understand mixing is to be involved from the beginning of a project — not just the mixing part.
- You recently tracked and mixed a song for Big Data here at the Universal Audio's Studio 610. Can you describe that process? Sure, that was a three-day session to write and track the song “New Body.”
- So let’s talk plug-ins on that session. What UAD plug-ins did you use, and how did you choose them? I used both the Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection and API Vision Channel Strip to track the drums.
Learn how the Grammy-winning engineer blended acoustic and electronic sounds on Random Access Memories, using mics, hardware, and UAD plug-ins. Read his insights on mic technique, compression, and dynamics.
May 18, 2020 · Puremix Mentor Mick Guzauski tells us some stories & highlights about his role in Recording & Mixing one of the greatest albums of the past decade Daft Punk ...
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Dec 12, 2017 · As part of his two-hour-long onstage conversation with fellow engineer Matt Hennessey, the studio legend presented a few of his mix sessions on a projection screen. That demonstration itself showed why he has a shelf of GRAMMY Awards spanning jazz, rock, R&B and electronic dance music.
Dec 13, 2017 · Mix engineer Mick Guzauski unveiled a surprise during his intimate GRAMMY SoundTables event at Chicago’s Old Town School Of Folk Music on Nov 8. As part of his two-hour-long onstage conversation with fellow engineer Matt Hennessey, the studio legend presented a few of his mix sessions on a projection screen.
Mick Guzauski has won 9 Grammy Awards and mixed over 27 #1 hits. Mick is considered one of the top mix sound engineer and mixer in the world. Mick's love for both music and technology started when he was in high school.
