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• Does the perfect room for mixing exist? How would it be? How important is the room for mixing?  (07:42)
• What’s a good workflow for mixing? Where should you start and in what order should you be looking at things?  (14:25)
• What’s more important to invest in? The perfect samples of the perfect Mixing / Mastering plugins?  (19:10)
• What is your advice on saturation? Use it on individual channels or bus groups? (22:20)
• Do you match all the levels of the different tracks (volume fader) first before you apply plugins to any channel? (26:10)
• Some of us don't have a studio and have to mix with headphones most of the time. How reliable are they for mixing? Are we missing so much? (29:15)
• What are the most common mistakes that producers make when mixing and how to avoid them (33:35)
• What is the best format to prepare something to be mixed by a pro? (36:46)
• Mixing in mono. Is it needed for Film mixing?  (39:40)
• What gear do you use? (Audio Interface, Headphones, Monitors…)? (41:15)
• What monitors do you recommend for a small studio? (44:40)
• Mixing in mono. Is it needed for Film mixing? (39:40)
• What is your favorite Album from a mixing perspective? Not necessarily a soundtrack. Just as a reference point. (47:03)
• Is gain staging a part of your mixing workflow? (49:41)
• Do you use reference tracks/songs when mixing? (56:30)
• Do you run out of UAD DSP often? Or do the tape plugins not take too much of the DSP? Also, does that stacking “hiss” make it sound worse? (1:01:35)
• Mixing engineers often say be careful with the amount of compression you add to film scores. Now when it comes to rock and electronic music, a good amount of compression is standard. Although it depends on the track, how much compression and limiting would you recommend?  (1:07:20)
• Do you have experience with the »Abbey Road Studio 3« plugin for simulation of speaker crosstalk which is obviously non-existent when mixing on headphones?  (1:13:30)
• Do you use internal “clocking” or external “clocking” devices? (1:18:40)
• How much does using open-back headphones close the gap between headphones and monitors? (1:22:15)
• How broken out do you generally prefer for mixing? Stems or separate Tracks? (1:30:25)
• What is your advice for reverb returns? (1:34:05)
• Do you cut the Low-end for reverbs? (1:36:35)
• After creating a group of reverb for a section ‘ex strings, do you send the reverb to the strings stem or directly to the output?(1:37:40)
• Regarding imaging, apart from panning, what would you add in your mix? (1:41:35)
• How to set up speakers right with the room?  (1:48:10)
• Can you talk more about how to mix the low end of the piano to maintain the clarity and power? (1:55:05)