#22 Mixing | With Jerome Renard

Stokes Sound

In this episode, we bring you Jerome Renard, Belgian-Born Mixing Engineer, to talk about his mixing setup and process.

As a mixer he believes that every song deserves to have an engineer who understand the deepest needs and connections you have with your music.
As someone who has lived, experienced and engineered pop music internationally, he’s able to bring a multicultural perspective to each project, helping to emphasize with goals of every artist he works with.

His experience working alongside John Metcalfe brought him to Real World
Studio, Universal Music in Studio La Grande Armee in Paris, and his sessions with Simon Phillips were the catalyst for bringing him to Los-Angeles.

Today, you’ll hear about Jerome’s mixing process and setup, his use of parallel compression and gain-staging, his views on vocal tuning, automation, what an average mixing week looks like for Jerome, getting more work in the industry, and hear the three things Jerome wishes he’d known earlier.

Episode Timestamps

• [00:45] A bit about Jerome.
• [02:55] Jerome’s mixing process.
• [07:41] Mixing acoustic drums.
• [09:20] Parallel compression.
• [10:34] Gain-staging.
• [13:09] Jerome’s mix bus.
• [19:31] In the box mixing.
• [23:43] Vocal tuning.
• [26:05] Jerome’s day-to-day.
• [29:52] Automation.
• [34:43] Jerome’s monitoring setup.
• [37:34] Mixing in a studio vs at home.
• [41:42] Jerome’s advice for getting more work.
• [48:06] Three things Jerome wishes he’d known earlier.

Notable Quotes

• “Being comfortable is more important than knowing your room.”
• “Mixing is all about feel.”
• “Reputation is everything.”

Connect with Jerome

• Website: jerome-renard.com.

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