Make a GREAT SONG Shine Full Mix Breakdown + FREE MULTITRACKS Dan Kalish... youtu.be/Ucws5v87uDI?si=Lwni… via @YouTube

Why don’t we have new rock stars anymore? @RealLindaPerry certainly didn’t hold back when we discussed modern music, artists trying to sound like everyone else and how perfectly polished production can remove the emotion from a record. Then Linda and Dave Way take us inside the recording and mixing of her deeply personal new album, Let It Die Here. This is genuinely one of my favourite interviews I’ve ever done! Watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=HIkmFOP8…

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I found these old ticket stubs recently and they reminded me why live music is still the future. Neil Young. Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. The Stones. Miles Davis. Tower of Power. Albert King. Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall. As a kid, those shows were not just entertainment. They were education. They taught me feel, phrasing, tone, dynamics and the power of being in a room with people making music in real time. So much of the music conversation now is about streams, playlists, algorithms, catalogue value and short-form content. All of that matters. I have spent my life making records. However, the record is the invitation. The live show is the communion. Every performance is unique. The room is different. The audience is different. The band is different. The moment can never be repeated in quite the same way. That is why live music matters even more in the age of AI. AI can imitate sound. It can generate endless recorded material. However, it cannot stand in a room with you. It cannot feel the audience inhale before the first note. It cannot create that one night where something happens that nobody planned. Artists also need to understand scale. Not every tour is going to make hundreds of millions. Not every artist should be chasing arenas. A 150-cap room can be a triumph. A 500-cap theatre can be life changing. The future is not just bigger shows. It is smarter, more human experiences. Because when people get together with music, something happens.

Dan Malsch has worked on massive modern rock and metal records with Ghost, Gojira and Avenged Sevenfold, including Ghost’s Skeletá, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. In this new Pro Mix Academy course, Dan opens the actual mix session for Monolith’s “Mother Martyr,” featuring Mike Mangini on drums, and shows how he builds huge drums, aggressive bass, wide guitars, powerful vocals and a hybrid analogue mix bus. All of the multitracks are included, so you can follow along and mix the song yourself. @ProMixAcademy promixacademy.com/course/dan…

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