AES New York 2018 Presenter or Author
Michael Brauer
Primary Affiliation: Michael Brauer - New York, NY, USA
COLDPLAY – JOHN MAYER – THE KOOKS – ARETHA FRANKLIN – GRIZZLY BEAR – PAUL MCCARTNEY – REGINA SPEKTOR
Michael Brauer is one of the founding members of the MWTM seminar program. Brauer has an impressive back catalogue, having worked with Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, John Mayer, Ash, My Morning Jacket, Ben Folds, Eric Clapton, Prefab Sprout, Leonard Cohen, Pet Shop Boys, Dream Theater, Elle King, James Bay and Calle 13 to name but a few. He has won seven Grammy Awards, including best engineered album for John Mayer's "Battle Studies". He recently moved into his own studio BrauerSound Studios working on a 32 channel Avid S6 as well as a vast collection of outboard. The outboard is at the heart of Brauer’s approach to using compression and EQ, that is so elaborate that Brauer has given it a trademarked name: “Brauerize”. The mixer explains that it, “is the combination of a few different compression techniques, including multi-bus, parallel and post-fader send/return compression, which focus on mixing into compression, allowing me to ride instruments, vocals, and my entire mix, into the sweet spot.”
Brauer’s ‘Brauerizing’ technique, of parallel compression of vocals and/or instruments is complimented with his heavy use of software, which as he describes, allows things that one cannot get from the hardware, such as “great de-essers and fixing tools”.
More Info: https://www.mbrauer.com
Session List
Oct 17:
Michael Brauer (Presenter)
Oct 18:
PSE09: Mixing a Hit Record (Presenter)