BUILT FOR THIS
It was 2009. I had just built my newest studio. No investors. No shortcuts. Just ambition, some second-hand recording gear… and a couch with my best friend on it.
I ran ads across the country—mixing, mastering—trying to bring in remote work. Then I got a call. Guy named Dave. Said he liked my work. Needed a mix for a new group.
I poured my soul into it. The mix was fire. 48 tracks, 24 vocal dubs on the chorus.
I told my friend, “It’s a dude named Dave Hall, I think.” He looks him up. “Dave Jam Hall? From Atlanta? Bro… he produced Mary J. Blige. Mariah Carey’s Butterfly.”
That track got nationwide radio play. And I knew…
I wasn’t just in the game—
I was built for this.
Drew Paul at 1:08 pm, May 1, 2025 -
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Drew Paul at 1:08 pm, May 1, 2025 -
Fun fact for the audiophiles. I couldn’t even run the isolated instrumentals at the same time as all the vocals with my puny ProTools LE rig so I had to come up with a solution.
I had to mix down a rough vox mix for refence, drop it into the inst mix, mute it mix it down, drop that back into the vox mix for the final mixdown.
That was my solution. Stems.