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Four-time Grammy-winning recording engineer and record producer Jimmy Douglass has been a first call for world-renowned artists like Timbaland, The Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake, Roxy Music, and hundreds more for his ability to remain current while drawing from his years of experience.

Compressors are great. Why not have two?

With the track's foundation laid down, Vance works on some individual punches with the band before setting up the congas and clavinet for overdubs.

In this episode, the band continues to run down takes, working through arrangement issues, finding the perfect moments for accents, and nailing the track's foundation.

With the massive drum sounds dialed in, Vance sets up the rest of the band and tweaks their tones to compliment each other while making some final arrangement tweaks as the band starts to cut takes.

With the arrangement sorted out from the control room pre-production sessions, Vance heads into the tracking rooms to place microphones and dial in the drum sound with the band.

In 2019, Hozier's second, much anticipated full-length record "Wasteland, Baby!" peaked at #1 in the Billboard Top 200, Billboard Top Alternative Albums, Billboard US Folk Albums, and Billboard US Top Rock Albums.

In this pureMix.net exclusive, multi-award-winning mixing engineer, Rich Keller, opens up the Pro Tools session for "Tidal Wave" and mixes the song from scratch while sharing his thought process and workflow along the way.