My girlfriend and pop artist, Jenefer Siân, released her debut mixtape today! Download it right here below this text! I recorded all vocals, mixed and mastered it all in my untreated apartment. You can also listen to it on Spotify.

Read her exclusive interview on BiggerThanBeyonce.com.

Now that the album is out I can finally safely put it out there that I worked with Justin Bieber. I got lucky and was able to fill in and engineer a writing session. Back in March I recorded the dude until 4am, just working out ideas for a song that ultimately did not make the album. It was a great experience and Justin is an incredibly talented kid. This dude can sing and play, for real. 'Believe' kicks some serious ass.

Mixed a record last night for @ProducedbyTe and @WhosTHEMACK with @PrestoSings singing on the track, and apparently my ears did not fail me! Although I will say, a song with Preston singing on it makes life that much easier. Hopefully I'll be able to post this one eventually.

Big shout out to @MattSirrine for killing this mix for me & @WhosTHEMACK !!!!

— Té (@Producedby_Te) June 14, 2012

YOOOOOOOOOOOOO @MattSirrine Effin' KILLED THE MIX ON THIS NEW JOINT that @Producedby_Te WROTE!!!! CRAAAZY!!!!

— Preston Harris (@PrestoSings) June 14, 2012

My feelings during the mix and after completing it?

"Making music is sort of like dating. If you see a girl that you think is drop-dead gorgeous, but then you go and talk to her and she is obvious trash, her appearance changes for the worse. Music is similar in that you can love the music, but once the people who make the music turn out to be shitty or uninspiring, the music quickly follows suit." - Mixerman

When I first started as a runner at Track Record Studios I got to help out on a string day. It was for Nelly Furtado's Loose album and Neal Pogue was producing/engineering this session. I was in the North live room with a 16 piece orchestra and being the runner, my job was simply to make sure that all the players had what they needed; music stands, sharpened pencils, working headphones, etc. They didn't need much and I spent most of the session just sitting in the live room, listening..soaking in the sound of an orchestra, live.. and for Nelly's album, I don't recall which song(s) it was for.

It was an awesome day.

Track Record - North Live Room

My lady sings in Spanish too! haha Check it out!

 

I started randomly choosing episodes of Pensado's Place to watch lately but decided to go back to episode 1 and watch every single episode. This is like Full Sail, the seque! Full Sail was great, don't get me wrong. I learned the very basics of recording, concepts, basic techniques and guidelines. It got me entry into a multi-million dollar faciility as an intern when I first moved to LA. You can learn all of it on your own but schools are a way to sort of speed up that process and potentially get you in the door to some big studios.

Pensado's place takes things a step further. If you know the basics, Dave and his guests of the show, will take you another step (or several steps) further. After watching 10 episodes of Pensado's Place, I feel like I've been back at Full Sail for 6 months. I've already applied countless new techniques to my mixes and the difference is just retarded. The new mixes I'm working on make anything I've mixed before sound completely noob'ish.

Not sure if he'll ever come across this but Dave, THANK YOU. The knowledge you and your guests put out there for us is so incredibly helpful. I have seen the light! haha

I've always heard the names of some of the big time mix engineers out there but I've never really sought out their mixes to listen to specifically. I just listen to music and can tell you whether or not I like a mix. After studying up on some my favorites discography I'm noticing that most of my current favorite mixes have been mixed by those same people!

I've created two playlists for my current two favorite mix engineers. Tony Maserati and Phil Tan (also a Full Sail grad). Who my favorite mix engineer is something that changes almost daily along with my all time favorite artist, song, etc. These are my current favorites and I've put together a playlist for each on Spotify. Not a complete discography but just some of the more recent mixes they've done. Every one of these mixes is absolutely mind bottling.. go listen!
 

Tony Maserati Mixes




Phil Tan Mixes

Jenefer performed live for the very fist time at Eleven in West Hollywood on Saturday, July 30th. She performed two brand new and unreleased songs; "Boys Up On Us" and "Up in Smoke," the latter produced by G2 and written completely by Jenefer. I mixed both of these tracks and also created the little intro track.

She absolutely KILLED.

"And if you think I'm not conveying exactly what it was like to be there, you're right. That's the essence of a great show, you can't really describe it, you had to be there." - BL