Drums, bass, vocals, guitars mixing techniques for John Mayer



Multi Platinum mixing engineer Manny Marroquin reveals the mixing techniques he used for John Mayer’s “I don’t trust myself”. For more info, go to www.waves.com

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25 Responses

  1. ThuSkyline Says:

    @oowetwillyoo

    Of course. As a band, you gotta have a good engineer. Like, you can write the greatest song in the world, but if you have an engineer that cuts the low frequencies and max’s out the hi’s, and doesn’t know anything about how to properly mix drums, you’re not gonna be sounding that great. Basically, a Les Paul can sound like crud being played through a 5 watt practice amp.

  2. AdamW69612 Says:

    Wow great ideas and a great view on mixing.

  3. soundcreation Says:

    Very cool vid

    Lots of passion in your mix ideas, and look forward to learning from your work Manny

    Cheers Scott

  4. oowetwillyoo Says:

    These guys are the reason most artists sound 50% the way they do.

  5. matty80 Says:

    @OwensMusic1

    looool. . . . he mixed the track. Therefore, they recorded all the parts in the studio and gave him the seperate tracks to mix. . . . . how it always works.

  6. justforvideos1000 Says:

    damn. . . . iwish i had a board with that many sliders. my 10 slider mixer is annoying as hell

  7. IamHymn75 Says:

    The way the bass rides the kick and snare is a throwback to Al Green’s rhythm. I would call John Mayer a thief but I think he honestly digs music and is a student of it. . . so we’ll give him more of a pass that say Elvis (thief) Lol!

    Good stuff! Manny is the truth!

    Hymn

  8. OwensMusic1 Says:

    how’d you get all the tracks seperate?

  9. wildhard Says:

    what effect is the lead vocals passing through giving it this flanger/Auto tune effect?

  10. JayBartSimpson Says:

    I’m not doing anything & nothing happened. . . now what !!!

  11. Aiden057 Says:

    The Waves products are just so damn GOOD.

  12. holuc08 Says:

    John Mayer. Great musician!

  13. johnthirteenmusic Says:

    John mayer – I dont trust myself

  14. sheebshag Says:

    says at the beginning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  15. dannycurtean Says:

    Its an SSL 9000 K series with Pro Tools HD. Probably connected via the Digidesign 192 converters then hitting the Pro Tools software and vice versa.

  16. dannycurtean Says:

    you can be, try it. Go buy some basic stuff and try it. . . . you might fall in absolute love with it like I did years ago.

  17. Liquidfotografie1 Says:

    What is the name of the song?
    Great song

  18. Liquidfotografie1 Says:

    What is the name of the song?
    Great song

  19. Liquidfotografie1 Says:

    What is the name of this song?

    LG
    Frank

  20. Liquidfotografie1 Says:

    Great Video, great song, what is the name of the singer?

    lg
    Frank

  21. mateolewismusic Says:

    THANK YOU!!!!

  22. Atomictoyz Says:

    It’s an SSL console and it’s connected to Pro Tools HD via a patchbay in the same way it would have been wired with a 24 track tape recorder.

  23. Timzsk8 Says:

    What kind of Console is That? How is it Connected to pro Tools?

  24. MystiK570 Says:

    This guy knows his shit makes me feel like super dumb like i could never make a great recording. But he’s been doing this for ever and had to go to school for it i didnt. Awsum vid tho.

  25. calismusical Says:

    Love this!!!! Thnks so much!!! i wanna be THAT good!

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