Unfiltered – The Lee Fields’s Mixing Podcast

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...

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...

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 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...