Tchad Blake-The Unique Mixing and Recording Techniques of a Master Mixer and Engineer.

Tchad Blake has crafted the sound for many big act of the years including the Black Keys, The Artic Monkeys, Sheryl Crow, Crowded House and many more. His creative use of distortion can be heard on many of his hit records and so too his use of Binaural recording. This video tells his story and looks into the innovative techniques that he has developed over the years.
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[@aaronpeacey9673]

Great series dude 👍

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Thank you!

[@rodrigodeltoro7220]

Well deserved tribute to the master. Thanx.

[@NormSpupsEntertainment]

A great homage to a legend! Tchad, not only a genius, seems like a lovely dude and great to hang out with

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Thank you! He does seem like a top dude.

[@Petesaintsfc]

Love these videos 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 keep up the great work 👍🏼

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Thank you! I will 😃

[@PhatLvis]

He's said he flips the phase on the distorted kick - which causes some cancellation with the main kick, yielding a peculiar, somewhat hollow sound.

[@evanmatthiesen7478]

the Devil Loc is one of my favourite plugins!

[@mixingmasteringonline]

It’s fantastic! I’ve been using the locness plug-in recently as well, really liking it!

[@ismaelsalguero8353]

Really awesome video, Tchad is a fearless audio engineer

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Sure is!

[@prazwolaryal214]

00:01 Chad Blake's innovative style and unconventional methods have made him stand out in the music industry. 00:51 Chad and Mitchell decided to go back to their roots for a new recording approach 01:38 Chad experimented with binaural recording in album Kiko. 02:29 Chad Blake's unique technique of using distortion for ambience 03:38 Chad Blake prefers using Distortion and compression over Reverb for creating ambience 04:26 Tchad uses unique recording techniques with unconventional equipment. 05:32 Tchad Blake mixed The Black Keys albums with unique techniques. 06:34 Tchad Blake's mixing techniques include bolstering low end with samples and using distortion for interesting drum sounds.

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Great, thats very helpful 🙂

[@twozero9]

excellent !!

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Cheers!

[@peterestdahl4664]

Nice job man

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Thank you!

[@andigisler]

I stole quite a few things from Tchad as far as mixing is concerned: Sans-Amp (both hardware + plug-ins) Sony Lavalier mics, Soundtoyz Devil-Loc, Sonnox Inflator on the master bus, etc. He‘s s real inspiration, check out the ‚Dark-Mix‘ version of the latest Peter Gabriel album.

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Me too, big inspiration!

[@theboyinstead]

the best

[@sfn4702]

Thanks loved it

[@mixingmasteringonline]

Thank you!

[@rleriche5044]

I need to give that Decapitator a try. And maybe try cutting back on verb!

[@mixingmasteringonline]

The Decapitator is great, not much else plug in wise that can do what is does.

[@assshakerstudios549]

Question-at the 4:48 mark, with the akg414's you never said what you set the 414's in. Cardiod, Omni, etc.? I'm going to assume that it's omni though, as if you like the sound of binaural audio, you'd want to go Omni(cant remember the last time I didn't use Omni on drum overheads). Oh wait, it was when I was forced to, and I hated it. Spent a month trying to get it to not sound the way it did. Terrible!

[@mixingmasteringonline]

They were Omni yes. I don't think it works for every flavour of sound but it's an interesting option. not long after this I used it in a busy loud rock track with the drummer hitting hard and didn't like it at all. Might have been better in a bigger room but way too much small room choke for my ears.