My Conversation with Mix Engineer Jon Castelli

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Jon Castelli is an up-and-coming mix engineer in LA who has had
great success in recent years, working on projects like Khalid's
Grammy-nominated for Record-of-the-Year, "Talk," Platinum record
for Summer Walker and Drake's "Girls Need Love," and a Gold
record for Harry Styles "Lights Up"


Jon offers lots of good, practical information about how to
refine your craft, and what it takes to work with top-level
artists and producers.


We talk about many things, including how he sets up for a mix,
recording and mixing vocals, the software and hardware tools that
are intrinsic to his process, the roles an
engineer/producer/mixer plays during the recording process,
fixing problems, microphone choices, the use of saturation and
distortion, developing your own sound, and loudness goals. I
started by asking Jon about how he got into music and
recording.

This conversation with Jon was recorded about a year ago, with me
in my studio in West Chester, PA and Jon at his studio, The
Giftshop, in Los Angeles. An editing version of our interview
recently appeared in Tape Op magazine.


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