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With the entire production complete, the time has finally come for Greg Wells to pull up the multitrack for Bryce Drew's "Lucky Number" on the gorgeous, Sunset Sound Custom Discrete Console, loaded with API 550-A EQs on every channel.

With the guitar takes edited down, it's time to finish up the rest of the tracking and overdubs for "Lucky Number".

In this episode of Greg Well's Start To Finish Series, Greg fills out the arrangement of Bryce Drew's "Lucky Number," by tracking multiple layers of guitar and keyboard overdubs, adding gorgeous soundscapes to the production.

In this episode of Greg Well's Start To Finish Series, he composes, records and edits the bass guitar line to add rhythmic and melodic movement to Bryce Drew's song "Lucky Number."

In this pureMix.net Exclusive, F. Reid Shippen opens the multitrack of Ingrid Michaelson's "Afterlife" to dissect the choices he and the producers made during production and remix the song in front of you to explain his thought process, workflow, and techniques that have helped him achieve success as a first call mixing engineer.

With a strong and inspiring foundation laid, Greg decides it is time to record the final vocals.

In Episode Five, Greg Wells sits at the drum kit in the live room of Sunset Sound's legendary Studio A to lay down a powerful drum track for Bryce Drew's song "Lucky Number"

Now that Bryce has laid down a version of the vocal for "Lucky Number," the duo continues to build the track by adding acoustic guitar and re-recording the piano to prepare a firm foundation for what is to come.

After recording and editing the piano for "Lucky Number," Greg continues building the track by having Bryce sing the vocal down to establish the heart of the song.

Now that Greg Wells & Bryce Drew have solidified the structure of the song “Lucky Number,” it’s time to work on the production.