Julian Casablancas’ vocal sound with Ben Baptie

In this sneak peek, Ben Baptie reveals the hybrid vocal chain he uses to achieve The Strokes’ saturated vocal sound.

Join mixer Ben Baptie for his debut MWTM series! Hosted at Pony Studios in London, this instalment guides you through Ben’s general workflow and focusses on his mix of ‘The Adults Are Talking’ by American rock band The Strokes. He gives an overview of his studio, hybrid setup, and routing, then dives into the multi-track session to reveal his techniques! You will learn how Baptie combines the use of outboard gear and plug-ins to enrich the sounds of vocals, instruments, and the overall mix. Despite going into detail on parameter settings of various tools, he places emphasis on the importance of intuition and emotion in his approach to any project. He discusses what he learned from his prestigious mentor Tom Elmhirst and elaborates on the psychological aspect of mixing, all the while stressing the importance of having solid technical foundations that allow creativity to flourish!

[mysterymidnightmurders]

love the strokes and love this walk through. The more of these you watch, the more you realize it's a similar process for a lot of vocals. Slight variations depending on the genre, song, singer obviously. But the core of it is mostly the same.

[samtripleseven]

ive been waiting for this for 20 years

[GazMakaveli]

Not heard of this guy before, brilliant plain-English explanations of his mix decisions.

[boonesboroughbeachboy]

this was awesome . thank u.i love the strokes and Juilian is one of my favorite vocalist ever. thank you, for doing such a great job on this song, i love this song and Selfless are some of my favorites songs ever.

[Tom_Coppola]

Ben Baptie looks like a randomly generated GTA V Online character

[bobspartylounge]

I remember Ben getting the Tom Elmhirst job, I was working at the same studio in London. Bens a nice guy and its insane to see how much he has achieved.

[mightbefire]

I'm still sitting here waiting to hear the final result.

[munch]

It's good to see that Winamp isn't dead

[KordTaylor]

Great video tutorial. Pretty complex but great results. ❤

[robinminkster]

Thanks! It would also be helpful when you are Comparing the two sounds of the two vocals that you would pause your description so we may hear the audible difference.
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[oquefilmaragora]

this hair is crazy, ben is so gorgeous

[gitsurfer]

This is great but you didn't show us the final product, i just sat through it all and i wasn't able to hear it after. Kind of annoying.

[saratonin]

Can we get a Ben Baptie episode where he goes through a track off the new Voidz album

[canadianmaple]

I had no idea Sideshow Bob was an audio engineer.

[jennifermcnuttmusic]

Can someone help? I’m very new to learning hands on producing and mixing; he said he duplicated the vocal.

I thought we couldn’t do that bc of phasing issues? But I thought it was okay to dup if you altered the duped track…

Maybe I misheard or have this all wrong?

[SeanGuyDude]

Didn’t this guys entire crypto exchange, FTX, just crash?

Props to pivoting careers so swiftly.

[frankiesunswept]

People in here saying this dude doesn't know what he's talking about hahaha, damn. Listen to that vocal maybe? It's amazing. He's incredible

[wannenburgwannenburg]

If You let people buy one off videos rather than making us subscribe to everything people would like you a lot more and you would probably make a lot more money in the long run

[kylewilliams]

lol gotta be careful with the c6 bc it boosts 1db of 1k and 5k at default settings

[documentingordinarythoughts]

I don’t understand the reason he mentions those two plug-ins in relationship sample/time aligning .. can someone explain it to me please ?