Nashville, TN (May 12, 2023)—There’s a slew of nice panels on faucet for subsequent week’s occasion, going down Saturday alongside Music Row earlier than shifting on to Berry Hill for the night’s festivities. All the day’s panels are value testing (all killer, no filler!) and among the many excessive factors is the aptly titled “Creating Immersive Mixes,” introduced by Westlake Pro and Avid.
Taking place at Starstruck Studios’ The Gallery at 4 PM, Creating Immersive Mixes will examine the technical and artistic approaches to mixing Immersive Audio. The featured panelists will focus on their approaches to things and beds, navigating massive classes, mixing back-catalog, staying true to the supply materials, and learn how to get essentially the most out of pre-mixed stems.
Sharing their insights on the panel are:
Jeff Huskins — Producer/Dolby Atmos Engineer, BMG
Jeff Huskins has produced, performed on, or engineered over 20,000 records ensuing within the gross sales of over 110 million records worldwide during the last 30 years. In 2017, Jeff started a journey into the Dolby Atmos mixing and mastering world and has produced over 2,500 songs on this specialised listening format. With the first studio positioned within the BMG’s Nashville headquarters, Jeff’s latest credit embody Jason Aldean’s “Georgia”, “Macon” document, Ashley McBryde’s “Girl Going Nowhere” and “Never Will” records, Lainey Wilson’s “Bell Bottom Country” document, Mammoth WVH’s ‘Mammoth II” document, Waterparks’ “Greatest Hits” document, Hollywood Undead’s “Hotel Kalifornia” document, and the overwhelming majority of the Eric Church catalog (together with “Mr. Misunderstood”, “The Outsiders”, “Desperate Man”, “Heart”, and “Soul”), in addition to cuts from Parmalee, Jimmie Allen, Jelly Roll, Kolby Cooper, LoCash, Blanco, Willie Jones, John Morgan, Madeline Merlo, Everette, Pardyalone, Brooks & Dunn, Little Wayne, Little Big Town, Carrie Underwood, King Calaway, Papa Roach, Ledesi, Ambar Lucid, HunterGirl, Track45, and Frank Ray.
Mills Logan — Recording/Mix Engineer & Producer, Universal Music Group
Mills Logan is a two-time Grammy Award and Emmy-winning recording-mixing engineer and producer. He fell in love with recording music whereas enjoying in a rock band as an adolescent, entranced by the studio world the minute he stepped into his first studio to document guitar for the band. Mills determined to pursue engineering and moved to Nashville to start his profession. He started figuring out of Creative Recording Studios, the place he primarily engineered radio spots and jingles with certainly one of his mentors, Jim McKell. From that time on, he has labored with a plethora of proficient artists, together with Toby Keith, Luke Bryan, Taylor Swift, Billy Gibbons, Joe Walsh, Cole Swindell, Josh Turner and lots of extra. Mills has additionally combined tracks in Dolby Atmos for Luke Combs, Morgan Wade, Mary J Blige, Ryan Hurd, Toby Keith, Luke Bryan, Supertramp, Barry White, Shania Twain, Blink 182, Josh Turner, Keith Urban, Halsey, and Sheryl Crow. As of spring 2023, Mills has combined over 1,000 tracks in Atmos.
Dustin Richardson — Audio Engineer & Producer
Dustin Richardson has been an audio engineer and producer since 2012, engaged on a mess of initiatives for Grammy-nominated and award-winning artists. Growing up enjoying drums in his hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana, he moved right down to Nashville and shortly discovered his ardour for engineering and producing. In his early profession, he assisted on classes with acts like Parachute, Hunter Hayes, The Milk Carton Kids, Joy Williams, For King & Country, and Jo-Dee Messina. From there, he engineered and combined records for producers equivalent to Michael Omartian, Claude Kelly, Chuck Harmony and lots of Nashville-based legends. As Dolby Atmos got here into the music scene, Dustin was recruited by Universal Music Group and has since carried out Dolby Atmos mixes for artist together with Olivia Rodrigo, Morgan Wallen, Rihanna, Samara Joy, Shawn Mendez, Shania Twain, The Supremes, Coin, Thomas Rhett, One Republic, Hanson, Post Malone and lots of extra, nearing nearly 1,000 mixes up to now. Currently, Dustin continues to combine and engineer out of UMG’s East Iris Studios in Nashville.
The daytime panels are solely half the occasion at Mix Nashville, so while you head to Berry Hill for the nighttime Studio Crawl, swing by Westlake Pro’s Berry Hill Showroom for an Atmos Listening occasion! Grab a chew from Westlake Pro’s featured meals truck, sit back with a beer, and listen to the most recent in Immersive Audio.
The skilled Westlake Pro group will stroll you thru turnkey options that can assist you get your combine room prepared at any funds. And if you wish to get hands-on along with your Immersive mixes, you possibly can demo Avid’s industry-leading management surfaces, together with the flagship Avid S6, the moveable S1, and the indispensable Pro Tools | Dock. Join the occasion at 515 E Iris Dr. on May twentieth from 6-9 pm throughout Mix Magazine’s Berry Hill Studio Crawl!
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Mix Nashville: Immersive Music Production is produced along with Host Partners Curb Studios, Belmont University and Blackbird Studio. During the day, Host Partner Curb Studios, together with Black River Entertainment, Columbia Studio A and Starstruck Studios, will characteristic a sequence of skilled panels, venture profiles, know-how exhibitions and demonstrations, interviews with prime engineers and producers, immersive listening classes, and way more. At evening, the occasion strikes to the close by Berry Hill neighborhood for a celebration at Blackbird Studio, along with a Studio Crawl that includes immersive music Listening Sessions at quite a few close by studios, together with Imogen Sound, Sputnik Sound, Addiction Sound Studios, Westlake Pro and the ADAM Audio showroom.
