Andy Meyer Mixing Justin Timberlake Live

[@jakekatz9542]

I had the absolute pleasure of visiting with Andy, Hydro, and some of the other wonderful people on Justin Timberlake's tour this summer as the tour I was on happened to be in the same city for a date. All I can say is WOW!!! Besides being the absolute consummate professional Andy was kind enough to give us a little personal tour of his day to day life as Justin's FOH mixer. He went through his thought processes and procedures in more detail than I could have hoped for and was totally open to answering any questions I had. I can only hope to one day be in the same league as him.

[@SoMyungJung]

Nice approach of handling the mix with dynamics instead of extreme EQing... They totally nail the sound beginning from backlines and mic choices.

[@stephenkrus]

Cool rundown of plugins used in the real world!

[@zephyrkhambatta]

Live rigs allow for plugins?!?! Holy balls. That's amazing!

[@mickeymiguel2726]

Andy great video

[@Superheavy420]

I have all these plugins. Love it.

[@Ezerlance]

This is sick.

[@Jazzcodes]

Great stuff! Very interesting and useful. Thanks all!

[@ManOfDoodle]

very safe tent = D

[@tanner-rh6oo]

I always thought that live shows should be done in mono, because how is the audience sitting on the left gonna know what's going on if you have a guitar panned hard right?

[@The111Abraham]

A good FOH guy is never going to pan a guitar only to one side, especially if there is only one guitar. A lot of times, one guitarist will run stereo with 2 amps and the FOH guy will pan hard left for one amp and hard right for the other so that the effects (delays, reverbs, etc) are as detailed and big as possible. In other cases, you'll have 2 guitarist and just pan one further left and the other further right. You can also have 2 guitars with 2 amps in stereo. That's just pure awesomeness and it takes a good FOH to make that mix sound balanced. Stereo is a great thing my friend.

[@tanner-rh6oo]

Abraham Sepulveda Did I say guitar? I meant harp.

[@The111Abraham]

+tanner122772 Oh, well a harp.................................

[@somo010]

@@tanner-rh6oo in this case you could put a delay at about 10ms and hard pan them both left and right for stereo.

[@superdertie]

another beast

[@princeaves694]

Very nice gears.

[@swayt2725]

Do they just have an Axe fx II chilling in the rack? nice..

[@eitan1994]

whats the big red button

[@VE3RKP]

+Eitan Ben-David I think thats the button you hit when feel good about the mix. Hit it and is says "THAT WAS EASY!"

[@futurenow6964]

It’s a call light for clear com

[@nabagengarovideo7768]

Wow nice

[@MichelobX]

great share

[@bolttracks]

Triple D on the VO track? ;)

[@PKua007]

Soooo much multiband compression! Would love to be into it more...

[@sjiwo]

Do you use Dante for your mixings?

[@mungus530]

Triangle bottom right at 2:09. Illuminati

[@vocalone23]

nice

[@votenobody7218]

Hi Andy from dana p and John oliva

[@LukeJF89]

Notice how he's using Windows and not Mac. Just take notice.

[@bolttracks]

lol who cares? :D

[@devaldi]

I care for example..

[@werewasyo]

dat fashion sense...stylin'

[@skipnelson858]

Interesting to me as after watching several videos on how this guy mixes -- He uses about ( I over state this a bit just because he uses things we also do not see ) -- $350,000.00 of analog gear + $30,000.00 of digital plugins which sounds nice BUT in the real world of the guy / gal who mixes on a $3000.00 mixer and using the included ( plugins ) for that mixer you are so very limited as to what kind of sound you can achieve compared to this guys unlimited analog / digital hybrid setup

[@premiermusicgroup3245]

lol good observation! Andy has more high-end mastering-grade analog stuff than anybody I know. I doubt he's really using much of plugins.

[@openyourmind493]

@@premiermusicgroup3245 And Justins vocal is always buried in the mix. Stop the compression madness

[@vasilzgkouri3318]

I don't think that all of those Top Mixing engineers use Waves Plugins at all....

[@werewasyo]

whoa thought he was wearing a trump sshirt...scared me