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In The Mix (Part 2)

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Jacob says Atmos lets him avoid the loudness race and keep the low end hitting hard.

1. Made It In Music: Interviews With Artists, Songwriters, And Music Industry Pros focuses this episode on Jacob Biz Morris and his engineering workflow. 2. Riley Taylor introduces Jacob Biz Morris as a Grammy award-winning mixing engineer and vice president at Reach Records in Atlanta. 3. The episode asks how a busy engineer balances artist service, label work, and fast turnaround without losing relationships. 4. Jacob says today's music can see around 100,000 songs released every day, which pushes scheduling into a constant daily problem. 5. He contrasts older release timing, when songs were uploaded three months in advance, with the current pace of uploading three hours in advance. 6. Jacob explains that the platform is affordable because clients can buy, upload, listen, and give notes without long back-and-forth texting. 7. He describes using due dates for mix one and the master, plus Monday and automations, to keep the team aligned. 8. Jacob says the team keeps pivoting on whether current communication and workflow are the best way to serve clients. 9. He says the most important change from day one to now is empowering other people to make decisions. 10. Jacob admits he still has a tendency to think, "I did this without anyone," and says he works against that. 11. He says outboard gear creates duplication problems because if he buys one piece, he often needs four. 12. Jacob wants recall-friendly setups so assistants can change settings and print a new version quickly if he is away. 13. He says his team prepares sessions by matching stems and files to the artist's reference so he starts where the artist left off. 14. Jacob says he does not want engineers to work backwards from the reference and prefers to start from the actual session state. 15. He says he will sometimes edit vocals himself, but he usually avoids having assistants clean them up. 16. Jacob names Kushner as an example of a track where cleaning vocals could ruin the song. 17. The interview turns to internships, and Jacob says the goal is to find out whether someone truly wants to be an engineer. 18. He says interns should not spend all day cleaning, should learn Pro Tools, and should bring questions that cannot just be Googled. 19. Jacob says many of his interns are paid, and he notes that about 60% of Reach Records staff started as interns. 20. He says Pro Q3, UAD's legacy EQ, and the LA-2A compressor show up often, which matches the episode's practical, gear-focused tone.

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