Music is hard work. It takes patience, creativity, talent and craft to come together. Eventually, all of that effort comes down to a final product that with a single click from a computer or the push of a play button in a car, has to sound great in all environments. Today, the mechanism of the music industry runs at hyper-speeds. Competing for airtime with other offerings around it while still highlighting the artist’s passion and performance has become increasingly difficult. This is where a great studio mix of your work needs to shine.
The shifting technologies in music have made creating recordings that are above-the-bar much easier to fashion. Inexpensive microphones and out-of-the-box VST instruments can sound fine, but without a professional mix from a world-class studio and listening environment, it’s almost impossible to get the most out of your efforts.
Monty Powell is a Grammy and CMA award-winning producer and songwriter who has been mixing and mastering recordings for over 15 years. His discography includes songs from some of the finest talents of our time like Lady Antebellum, Lyle Lovett, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Ray Price, The Eli Young Band, Bascom Hill, Gavin DeGraw, Emmylou Harris, Patti Griffin, Shawn Colvin, David Nail, Anna Wilson and others. Monty works and crafts his secret sauce at Cranesong Studios, his award winning Carl Tatz-designed Phantom Focus mix room in the mountains of northern Utah. He specializes in bringing clarity and depth to recordings and edits through tracks that can often be cluttered with competing frequencies and parts. He lends his ear as an award-winning record producer to every mix he does.
Monty is a Yamaha/Steinberg endorsed artist and mixes in the box on a custom Cryptic Globe computer system using Cubase 8.5 and UAD-powered plugins as his main sculpting tools, alongside Waves and Steinberg plugin packages.
