Part 1

Darrell Thorp's relationship with one of rock's prized producers, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, began in 2000 when he and Justin, a part of Beck's band, were recording the record "Sea Change." Since then, the two have been involved in numerous successful records. When Justin finished producing Poppy's record, "Flux," he reached out to Darrell to take it across the finish line. 

 

In this Puremix exclusive, Darrell reveals more of the techniques he has used to mix and engineer records for some of rock's most prominent artists, gaining him ten Grammy awards and over three Billion streams.

 

See how Darrell Thorp:

 

• Explains how he starts from where the artist left off with the rough mix instead of from scratch
• Goes through each of the drum mics to add excitement and dimension to the kit
• Explains his approach to placing drum room mics
• Adds his Distressor and Vulfcomp parallel chains and explains alternative options for each
• Goes through each of the bass guitar tracks to add size and attitude to the bass
• Explains what he is looking for with eq and volume balance of the guitars in the stereo image
• Discusses his approach to de-essing vocals
• Adds his parallel compression bus chain for vocals
• Adds Andrew Scheps spread processing to the lead vocals in place of the distortion plugin used in the rough mix
• Adds his stereo bus compressor to the mix and explains how he sets his attack and release settings by genre
• Shares the delay throw reverb chain he used on Beck’s Morning Phase
• Uses clip effects to automate EQ onto specific lines of the vocal to remove mud
• Explains how he delivers a loud version of the mix to his clients, using PSP Audio’s Vintage Warmer 2
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Watch Darrell Thorp, mix “Her” from Poppy. Only on Puremix