As a key player in Beyoncé’s production team, Stuart White traveled the world making recordings with one of the world’s biggest superstars.
In this four-part series, the Grammy Award winner revisits the recording and mixing of the landmark track from Beyoncé’s 2014 album of the same name. The song, codenamed “Yoncé”, is a bold artistic statement featuring all-stars Mike Dean, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and more.
Stewart reopens the original ProTools session and explores how the song came together. He goes through his entire post template, revealing all of his plugins, effect chains, and routing options. He also goes into detail about Beyoncé’s signature recording chain and explains the reason for each piece of analog equipment.
In addition to ProTools, Stewart talks about his experience in turbo mode. He shares his tips for setting up sessions so that when Beyoncé enters the studio, everything is ready to go.
Content
1. Template overview, effects sends, gain staging, drums and percussion
2. Low-end processing, percussion, strings, synths, backing vocals, publishing splits
3. Vocal tracking, de-essing, EQ, compression, reverb, delays, routing , sound design
4. Mix bus, tracking vs mixing, headroom, production workflow, summing
There are subtitles in Russian, English and Spanish.
