Asher Roth 'Tangerine Girl'

Inside the mix

Asher Roth 'Tangerine Girl'

w/ Ryan West

1 h 40 min • 2015

English, Spanish

Engineer and producer Ryan West dissects his mix of Asher Roth's 'Tangerine Girl', from the album "RetroHash".

Learn step by step about the workflow and sonic decisions that combined to create Ryan's signature sound and a badass hip-hop mix.

In this video you will learn how to:

Get deep and hard hitting drum sounds
Clean up and manage competing bass frequencies
Make vocals sound in-your-face and spacious at the same time
Spice up background vocals
Create a killer master bus chain to sweeten and glue the whole mix together

Don't forget to download the stems, import them in your favorite DAW and practice using the same tracks Ryan used in this video!

4.8

21 reviews

Isaac Jean • Monday, March 21, 2022

That was amazing! Thank you Ryan.

thirdwise • Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Great video Mr. Ryan West! I appreciate you taking the time! Would love some more videos from you but I'm appreciative for what we DO have . Would also love to hear a quick run down of what you do from here. How many days/hours did you work on the mix, send off for mastering etc...

jdavis49781 • Friday, June 22, 2018

Great video brother i learned a lot............I wish you had more videos on here though because you specialize in my favorite genre, hip hop............but there are many great videos on this site........God bless you brother

NikH • Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Thanks Ryan, really enjoyed this and learnt a bunch as with your other videos. Was a little confusing with the master bus final level match (between processed and unprocessed) - when you pulled the processed master fader down it sounds like the SSL compressor and tape machine became less prominent. Would love to see more tutorials from you.

B4Lasers • Saturday, December 31, 2016

dope ryan great vibes great knowldge.

composermikeglaser • Monday, April 25, 2016

Crazy how much of a difference Ryan's 2 Bus processing made on this mix. I actually enjoyed he went through the whole process of making the background vocal loop fit into the mix. It takes up a minute of the video...but I can relate to the pain of making awkward vocals fit.

pradaneff • Monday, November 9, 2015

There are better ways to spend $35. Save yourself some time and money.

kwame201 • Monday, November 9, 2015

Hey I love the tips but the video lags from time to time :/ but that's honestly the only issue. Ryan would mind rating my equipment? I'm using a focusrite forte and running it through a akgc214, my monitors are jbl lsr305's and I'm using logic. Is there anything you would recommend me getting? I record hip hop, singing, and acoustic songs. Also how would you setup a compressor to actually hear what its doing or to achieve the sound you want on vocals? And do you use additive eq on vocals?

vomit23 • Sunday, November 1, 2015

@ryanwestmusic thank you for the response, i understand for eminem :). If you have time could you give me your advice ? because I am self-taught and I learn about puremix and I find my aggressive recordings I do not find or it comes from equipment : audio technica at 3060 - uad 1176-câble vovox- rme fireface uc-se electronics pro filter it's belgian rap :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhXMPGJrkMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3n6-h8MbqI

ryanwestmusic • Friday, October 9, 2015

@vomit23 Glad you liked it! When it comes to videos I do for Puremix, it will most likely all be rap/hip hop. Fab and others cover other genres quite well, and of course I've mixed a ton of hip hop. It's pretty tough to get permission from a major label artist to use their mixes for educational purposes. Eminem would be impossible, I'd say. Using Asher's track was a unique one. He's a great guy and we got fairly friendly during the process so I felt comfortable asking. Cheers!

byron12 • Thursday, October 1, 2015

Thank you Ryan, I watched the video in it's entirety without pause. Tomorrow, I'll begin to practice some of your techniques. SO MUCH TO LEARN! Ryan, which other video's do you recommend. I'm using UAD TwinAudio/ Logic Pro. Thanks

audio.geek • Monday, September 21, 2015

on safari it says file not ready when I press download files button. It was working on first day of release but not anymore.

trigon.jerome@orange.fr • Monday, September 21, 2015

I can't watch this video since many days ( and i'm member of Puremix ) it is said " error loading, file could not be played ". I was wondering if I am the only one or if it is a servor problem ?