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With the general direction set in place, Tony continues the mix for Will Knox's "Lifeboats" and turns his attention to the bridge.

The tracks are edited, the samples added, the vocals tuned, and this session is ready to mix!

The mix is set up, and Tony has put together some ideas for where he wants to take the mix. Continuing from part 1, Tony starts automating levels early in the process to begin building the foundation for his vision of "Lifeboats" and continues to perfect the individual tones to support the bigger picture.

While Kolton Lee is over in the Fabulous Room doing the final touches on the vocals for "Keep The Light On," Jacquire and Danny Pellegrini complete the editing for the instrumental tracks and augment the drums with the samples they recorded from Bryan's kit.

In episode 1 of this addition to the Lifeboats series, Award Winning Engineer, Tony Maserati, opens the multitrack for the Will Knox song, "Lifeboats", and takes us all the way from hearing the song for the first time, to a completed powerful and energetic mix with his signature sound imprinted upon it.

Now that Jacquire has finalized the vocal comp and is happy with the performance, he passes it off to Kolton Lee for one last cleanup and tuning pass.

Now that the overdubs are complete and Jacquire and Rich are happy with the vocal comp, Jacquire sits down for one last vocal editing session to make sure the performance is the best it can be can be, before handing it over to Kolton Lee for a final tuning pass.

In 2015, a previous version of world-renowned mixing engineer, Andrew Scheps, mixed "Lifeboats". Now he returns five years later as "Future Andrew'' to revisit the mix and see what has changed in his template.

After reviewing the previous takes, Jacquire and Rich have a gameplay to do some punches and dial the vocal into the perfect pocket.

With some incredible vocals in place, Jacquire and the team review the takes to create a comp and assess where they are.