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In The Mix (Part 1)

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A broken mute light almost derailed a Kirk Franklin session in Dallas.

1. Made It In Music: Interviews With Artists, Songwriters, And Music Industry Pros focuses on Jacob Biz Morris and his path from Dallas engineering to Atlanta mixing. 2. Riley Taylor, community manager at Full Circle Music, hosts Jacob Biz Morris, a Grammy-winning mixing engineer, vice president at Reach Records, and co-founder of Get Mixed. 3. The episode asks how Jacob moved from recording in his house at 13 to running a mixing business for independent artists and labels. 4. Jacob says he grew up around friends making music, fell in love with the engineering side, and built a small studio in his mother's house. 5. He says people started paying him at 15 to record in Dallas, which led to bigger jobs in the Dallas Christian music scene. 6. After high school he attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts, where he learned tape machines, SSL consoles, and signal flow. 7. Jacob says the Conservatory forced him to admit he did not know everything, even after six or seven years on Pro Tools. 8. He and Riley compare training-school stories, including broken studio gear and the need to troubleshoot quickly when sessions are about to start. 9. Jacob recalls a Kirk Franklin session in Dallas where a broken mute light hid the problem and left him stuck for an hour. 10. He says moving back to Dallas after school let him keep building relationships with Lecrae, Tadashi, and the Reach Records circle around 2009. 11. Jacob says moving to Atlanta in 2013 felt necessary after he and his fiancée decided Dallas had become a cap for his career. 12. He says Carlton Lynn mixed most Reach records at first and later took him under his wing for years. 13. Jacob says Carlton moved to Japan in 2014 or 2015, and that transfer put him in the role of main mixer. 14. He says that by 2015 he was mixing heavily and his name on successful records brought more clients to him. 15. Jacob says he noticed independent artists lacked access to quality mixes at affordable prices, which pushed him toward Get Mixed in 2018. 16. He explains that Get Mixed serves both a website for independent artists and a label side that handled David Kushner's "Daylight." 17. Jacob says assistants prep files before he and Connor tag-team the mix, and he listens to a lot of final work before it goes to clients. 18. He says Atmos became a strategic and technical focus because he likes tech, has a PMC-based Dolby room, and wants affordable spatial audio for smaller artists. 19. Listeners who care about music engineering, studio workflow, and independent artist tools will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting celebrity gossip or a short casual chat may skip this one.

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