![]() I mixed the entire Savage Mode 2 as well as two songs from Heroes & Villains, ‘Niagara Falls’ and ‘Umbrella’, at Conway Recording Studios in LA. “Metro and I have used multiple rooms at Paramount, including Encore and Ameraycan, to mix, all of which have SSL 4000+ consoles. Large‑format consoles played a key role in all of them. Stevens also mixed most of Gunna’s DS4Ever, and the whole of Future’s I Never Liked You, meaning that he was involved in the making of three Billboard number one albums in 2022 alone. ![]() Stevens was the main engineer and mixer on all these releases, as well as on a whole range of collaborative mixtapes, albums and productions by Metro. Metro Boomin’s two solo albums, Not All Heroes Wear Capes (2018) and Heroes & Villains (2022), went to number one, and he’s enjoyed eight platinum singles under his own name in the US. Despite his old‑school preferences, Stevens works at the cutting edge of today’s pop/R&B/rap music, as the full‑time engineer and mixer of Leland Tyler Wayne, aka Atlanta star producer Metro Boomin. Speaking is 29‑year‑old Ethan Stevens, who very much grew up in the age of the DAW. I go on feel, and get better and faster results than when I’m working in the box.” But on an SSL, I only know roughly where I am, perhaps at 5kHz or 7kHz or somewhere in between, but I don’t know the exact frequency I’m cutting or boosting. You get to a place where you’re working with an EQ and just typing in values. “I think the computer gets too mathematical at some point. And it’s both about the process and the sound of working with analogue. I came up in Paramount Studios, where every room has an SSL, so it’s like a comfort zone. I work on the SSL for the excitement and the pure joy that I get from it. “I do a lot of my mixing on our 80‑channel J‑series SSL desk. Metro Boomin’s right‑hand man is championing old‑school mixing techniques in the 21st Century. Ethan Stevens behind the SSL J‑series console at Metro Boomin’s private Boominati Studio.
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