It’s better to put it away for a minute and come back to it. The more you overdo it, the more you ruin it, so you try to keep it as simple as possible. IZ: Right, like more reverb, more reverb.Ĭhris: Right, exactly. How much do you paint? How much do you not paint? How much do you let the music just speak to you or speak to its listeners? How much do you really dive in, versus knowing…Ĭhris: The key is the more you over think anything the more you ruin it. A lot of them really want to know what are the dos and don’ts in that environment. I talk to a lot of the younger cats who want to get behind the board and push faders and mix and paint just as you speak of. Being a guitar player, being a drummer, being a musician, it’s all about painting a picture and then thinking about other things you’re going to do with it. A day in the life for you, Chris Lord-Alge, when you get files and you start to process the music and about to put your touch on it, what is that like for you in your environment?Ĭhris: I mean it’s just all about painting a picture. You have to think outside the box, not just what you’re doing on the computer but what you’re doing with it and where you’re taking it. I think it’s crucial, especially for this generation, to understand what it means to not only be great at your craft or what you love but to also have a business mindset that allows you and brings you more work in the future and how you handle it. IZ: It’s like your body of work, what you do, you are a mobile business.

One of the things we kind of like to reiterate with what we do here at Connected is really re-educate the next generation of consumers, musicians, even entrepreneurs, right? Because at the end of the day, we’re a walking business, right? People like Phil Wagner who runs Focusrite, we try to brainstorm and come up with some great things, great items to help the next generation.

How do you feel about just where things are going even in your road as a mixer and what you do?Ĭhris: We’re just trying to bring the ability for the next generation of kids to do what I do the easiest possibly way with all the tools that we’ve learned from. I’m here hanging with one of the great masters, Chris Lord-Alge. IZ: What’s up, you? This is IZ Avila with Connected.

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