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Nail The Mix April 2018 – The Dangerous Summer

Learn to mix The Dangerous Summer’s “The Permanent Rain” with Paul Leavitt! Join us for a full day of INSANE mixing education!

Things you’ll learn:

  • How Paul dials in his drum tones
  • The best EQ and Balance secrets on consoles and their ITB equivalents
  • Analyze the differences of the mix on SSL vs ITB (in the box)
  • Paul’s unique approach to vocals
  • and so much more!

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70 thoughts on “Nail The Mix April 2018 – The Dangerous Summer

  1. Gankytime7 Santana

    YUUUUUUUUUUS!!!

  2. Never heard of this band before! Looking forward to learning a ton this session!

  3. DAMN THIS IS CATCHY vocals remind me of Academy Is, this is gonna be a fun one!

    1. Musicjohnny Ragin

      Uggghhhh I LOVE The Academy Is! If we could mix something off “Almost Here” I’d literally die of happiness. The drums on that album hit so hard!

      1. Garrett Maceachern

        I love The Academy Is! Use to be a guilty pleasure of mine before I stopped caring what other people thought haha!

  4. Nice song! Fresh! Cool!

  5. My favourite band for years! I’m so pumped to work on this!!!

  6. I like this, it has a Lemonheads feel that I dig. I think I’ll put my hat in the ring with this one.

  7. I love this band! Best band we’ve done since I’ve joined over a year ago! We need more like this!

  8. Love these guys! This literally made my day and Paul is a genius. So stoked!

  9. Hot damn this song is good!

    1. Patrick Dougherty

      I’d never heard it before I started this mix, and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. Such a good song!

      1. Wait, how did you start mixing it?
        I can’t see the session anywhere.

        1. The.brad.thomas Thomas

          Hey Christian, the download links are right at the top of this page, are you not seeing them?

          1. Brad. I wrote the comment when the link was not available yet.

          2. Dakota Shushlachee

            I CANT FIND THEM AS WELL 🙁

  10. One of my all time favourite bands, been listening to the guys since day 1. This is hands down already my favourite month here on NTM. Thank you guys!!!

  11. Has something changed? Haven’t used this since the Meshuggah/Decapitated month. Where are the stems?

    1. Hello Jack,

      If for some reason your account is missing content that you should have, please go ahead and e-mail us at support over at urmsupport.com and we will have one of our Helpdesk technicians take a look at it.

  12. This is my favorite one so far.

  13. kinda reminds me of the 90’s music like Gin Blossoms, Third Eye Blind, Dishwalla etc.

  14. The Dangerous Summer has been one of my favorite bands for almost a decade and i just knew at some point we’d get our hands on one of their songs! This speaks true to Paul Levitt as well, I’ve admired his work for years and can’t wait to see how he made this classic song such a hit! Love having more emo/rock music on NTM! If only BEAU BURCHELL WOULD MIX MOOSE BLOOD!!! <3<3

    1. Michael Sedelmaier

      Dude… YES!!! <3

    2. I second this! Im seeing moose blood tonight in Denver

    3. OMG, I’ve just finished and sent the mix ignoring the “emo” thing, I thought it was Punk Rock 😀

    4. This is super useful for me as my bands sound is very similar to TDS/Moose Blood/emo revival, so stoked to have access to something like this to learn from!

  15. how have i not heared of this band before ? good stuff here! gonna be a fun mixing month !

  16. should i submit my mix with the maximizer on or off any recommendation ?

    1. Try to submit a mix that is presentable to the band if you were doing a test mix.

    2. My personal opinion is that nowadays mastering has become part of the mixing process, expecially considering that 90% of the records have no extra budget for fancy analog mastering studios, so it will happen more often than not that the band will ask for a finished product altogether.
      That makes the things harder, not easier, because you have to go through a series of new things that are outside “old school mixing”.
      That said, mastering is a particular process that goes way beyong limiting the mix, so it’s a double edged sword… it could fuck up a good mix, so if you don’t feel confident doing it, just level the peaks without pushing it too much.
      Expert ears like the guys on URM can tell if a mix is present without mastering, and won’t evaluate it just on its loudness.
      I can notice that on the polls, the top 20 includes good unmastered mixes, so you can be confident they won’t discriminate 🙂

  17. I’m a newer member and cant get access to the download page. FAQ says I should be good to go. Any Ideas/

    1. Hi Will,

      If you are having issues accessing your account, please direct your attention to our support department where they will assist you getting into the website.

      http://urmsupport.com/

  18. one of my favorite bands for many years now. love these guys!!

  19. Garrett Maceachern

    Cool song!

  20. Im new to nail the mix and I was wondering if theres a way to post your mixes for some feedback.

    1. Yes! We have a Facebook group that’s specifically for that purpose. https://www.facebook.com/groups/urmppcoctagon/

  21. Hi, I already sent a mix couple days ago,
    but I listened to Joel and Paul advice, edited my mix a little bit more,
    Can I send an email again with this last mp3 mix?

    1. Hi Drazen,

      Just reply to the confirmation e-mail with your new mix!

  22. There is a lead at the VERY end of this song after the clean guitar in the original. Is this missing on purpose or did I somehow delete it? I reimported all the tracks and don’t see it.

    1. Hi Rich,

      If you believe something is missing, please try re-downloading the stems. If it’s still missing for some reason, please reach out to our support team over at http://urmsupport.com/ so we can get you all squared away properly!

    2. Just copy over the lead for chorus two and you’ll be good

  23. Thomas Vangelooven

    This really is a fun song to mix!

  24. this song grew on me. and i just did get it done in time.

  25. This song seems to be mixed twice.
    On Spotify there is the 2009 Reach For The Sun Album and a 2017 If You Could Only Keep Me Alive. The 2017 sounds kinda not so good like the 2009 version does.

    1. If You Could Only album came first and it wasn’t from 2017

  26. Did anyone figure out what happened to the missing lead guitar in the outro? It’s not the same guitar part as the chorus lead so copying it over isn’t an ideal fix.

  27. Raffaele Ventruto

    Hi, was trying to see the mix, youtube /hopeless blocked the content in my country. What now?

    1. Hello,

      This is because of a slight issue that is being cleared up, we will be sure to announce when it’s been fixed 🙂

  28. Christian Berglund

    I can`t access the mix video//// This video contains content from [Merlin] Hopeless Records, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

    1. Cedric Lachapelle

      Me too !

      1. Hello,

        The reason this is happening is because of a slight slip up that we are getting fixed. We will definitely be notifying everyone when this is fixed!

    2. Same problem here in Germany, cannot access the video. 🙁

      1. Stijn Debontridder

        Same here in Belgium…

    3. Samuli Väihkönen

      Same in Finnland

    4. Same here too

    5. Same, here in US

    6. Same problem here in Italy.

  29. Cedric Lachapelle

    Can’t access in Canada 🙁

  30. Taken down by Hopeless for copyright dang.

    1. Don’t worry! It’ll be back!

  31. Same in Norway. 🙁

  32. Mauricio Olivares

    same here

  33. Hello Guys – we have addressed this issue of the video copyright problems and it will be fixed soon. We will definitely be informing you all when it is up!

    1. Any update on the copyright problems?

      1. Raffaele Ventruto

        Seems to work

  34. Very new here, maybe i just don’t know how it works, but i also cant watch the QNA. I click on it and it just brings me to a FB page saying i missed it. Very much love this song and everything about it so I’d love any help (or maybe I’m just dumb as hell)

    1. Raffaele Ventruto

      Just scroll back the FB Timeline… the Video will be there or Filter Videos
      in FB, you should find it

  35. Samuli Väihkönen

    thank you NTM-team for fixing the problem! love you all!

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