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Originally Posted by elle

thanks so much for that Brad!

pasting the whole article here:
On With The Show

“Having Chris back is just a wonderful thing.”
The legendary quintet The show today is up to two and a half hours of hits.

tried-and-true formulas, as you’d expect.

There is, first and foremost, the matter of overall level. In the Kob canon, level has to be exciting. You can go below that occasionally and it’s OK, but remain there and it gets boring.

He mixes loud, but a clear distinction must be made between good loud and bad loud. Good loud keeps everyone dancing, and if someone onstage is playing something, it will be heard.
“Then there’s balance,” he adds. “That’s the first critical part of actual mixing. Once you get that together and the EQ, you can animate the sound. Animation, in this sense, takes things and makes them jump out of the mix.
Staying On Course
The production level of the show is anything but stuck in the past. There are about 300 cues for the show including count-ins and clicks.
“Each member of the band essentially likes to hear a mix mirroring the sound of the record,” . . . .

I thought that article was very interesting! Thanks for posting it.