Mix With The Masters – Deconstructing a Mix №30 – Keziah Jones “Captain Rugged” (TUTORIAL)

By | September 25, 2025

 

Release Year: 2018
Producer: Mix With The Masters
Producer Website: Mix With The Masters
Author: Russell Elevado
Duration: 1h 30m
Type of Material Shared: Video Lesson
Language: English

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Description: Step inside Red Bull Studios NYC to witness analog purist Russell Elevado mix a song from scratch! Using an SSL 9000 J-series console and an arsenal of fine outboard equipment, the fabled engineer crafts an all-analog mix of ‘Rugged’ by the artist Keziah Jones. Starting from the beginning of the mix process, Elevado explains his initial patching, comments on his choices for particular gear, and demonstrates his approach to achieving an initial balance. He then elaborates on his methods and dials in on EQ, parallel and direct compression, re-amping, effects, and more. While mixing, he sheds light on a variety of areas including the benefits of analog summing, creative tape effects, impedance, and transformers. Upon finishing the mix with final EQ and level automation, he enlightens us to why he avoids the common practice of master buss processing.

About Russell Elevado
Russell Elevado, is a recording engineer and record producer based in New York City Elevado’s achievement for recording and mixing contemporary R&B recording artist D’Angelo’s critically acclaimed Voodoo album, earned him a Grammy award in 2000.

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Video format: MP4
Video: Format: AVC, Bit rate: 2,400 kb/s, Width: 1,280 pixels, Height: 720 pixels
Audio: Format: AAC LC, Bit rate: 160 kb/s, Channel(s): 2 channels, Sampling rate: 44.1 kHz


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