UnfilteredLeeFields

Unfiltered – The Lee Fields’s Mixing Podcast

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Unfiltered with Lee Fields is the audio podcast for engineers, creatives, and production leaders who refuse to settle for average. Hosted by Lee Fields — founder of BlackBox, a production consultancy partnering with technical, executive, and creative teams to design world-class audio, lighting, and video systems and co-founder and exiter of MxU— this show pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to lead, create, and mix at the highest level. With over two decades of experience behind the board for artists like Elevation Worship, Maverick City, Passion, Lecrae, and UNITED, Lee is equal...

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Q&A - Part 1 30.06.2026 59:53

This week's a live Q&A straight from the console. Y'all sent in questions and I'm answering with tracks loaded, so when I say something, I'm showing you. Snare processing with other plugins, drum bus routing, delay compensation, OH's bleeding into toms, getting depth without sounding like a brick wall, and lottttts more. Got a question for the next Q&A? Hit me up on Instagram. This episode...

Bass & Guitar 03.06.2026 31:17

Everyone talks about vocals. Everyone argues about drums. But if you want to know why a mix feels powerful, stable, emotional, or expensive, start with the relationship between the bass and guitars. In this episode of Unfiltered, Lee dives into one of the most overlooked parts of mixing: creating space, movement, and impact between the instruments that carry the weight of the song. From frequency...

Toms & Overheads 20.05.2026 33:15

How do you get toms to sound massive without wrecking your mix? When should you gate drums, compress overheads, or use parallel compression? And what makes the API 2500 one of the most respected bus compressors ever built? In Episode 2 of Unfiltered: The Lee Fields Mixing Podcast, Lee continues building a live mix from the ground up, moving beyond kick and snare into toms, overheads, drum bus proc...

Welcome - Kick & Snare 05.05.2026 44:31

Welcome to Unfiltered, a new series from BlackBox built for the live audio and mixing community. Hosted by Lee Fields, this season goes deep—methodically unpacking the fundamentals, science, technique, and philosophy behind building a great mix. No fluff. No shortcuts. Just long-form conversation about what actually matters. In this episode, we start at the foundation: Kick and Snare. Two inputs t...