Mixing Masterclass: Film Score Mixing & Composing with Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) [MixCon 2021]

This guy is such a good teacher. His workflow makes total sense and i actually understood what he was talking the about the whole time. Junkie XL is a true master of his craft.

You have to be VERY careful with putting MB compression on the mix bus. It's very much his sound, but if you're making orchestral music that doesn't sound like this, it will destroy your mixes.

wow,,just watched interview with Rick beato on film Scoring 2023

Great chapter!

Big fan of junkie xl 👏👏

Why is a "Mixing Masterclass" in mono?

Great video with lot's of great info and explanations. I'm a newbie in movie scoring and will try to take part in different movie scoring competitions. I still have to learn so much. Thanks, Alain

This is amazing and so inspiring! I realized my workflow is very similar to Tom and I though was not the best way. Learning and ready to create more!
Thank you SonicScoop

thanks a lot. I´m baffled that it is not a industry standard discussion, but a deep dive into the art of mixing with whatever DAW. Would love to see more creative comp/engs not being drawn to merch talks, although Tom will sure know highly marketed and costly software, but NOT emphasizing it all over, man...what a relief seeing this. Is there some peace shining from a distant planet with kind of a .wav standard for the sake of reasonable-business-all-goode-scene possible...?

Back in 2003 as a 14 years kid I asked Junkie XL in his website/forum how to create music like he did. Now I watching this and I know how :DDD

i wanted to know the tricks not how to use groups :((

This tutorial is of such GREAT VALUE - thank you so much Tom & Justin!

This is great.

Dude looks like Kramer

Thank you very much. How very generous to show this all. Great.

Try out rematrix reverb. If you already like blackhole , you're gonna love rematrix

THIS IS IT!!! I TOTALLY GET IT!!! Thanks guys, thanks Tom!!!

That shadow hills compressor is only working on front left and right.
It’s hard to find plugs that are working on more than stereo when inserted on quad track.

Sound recording, sound designing, composing, mixing, mastering. One Man Army

My computer has packed all of its cables up and left my house after playing this for me.

@tom I noticed in the mix session your stems are not panned hard front and back. Looks like they all have rear speakers panned half way back. Why is that? Thanks

I think his way of working really comes from his background as a dance music producer. Most electronic dance producers, being house / techno or whatever, do most of the stuff themselves. Sound design, composing, arranging, processing, mixing and even mastering. They have to know a bit of all the different aspects. He clearly knows a lot of all of it. Very interesting video!

Thank you for your excellent advice; particularly the info' on reverb.

Great! My God his demos that he won't approve of as a final, sounds better than 99% of the scores that actually make it to the theater.

Cool but fails to translate well off Utube.

Last question: I've noticed your room treatment isn't as much of a concern to you as many others out there. Why do you not worry so much about it? E.g. lots of hard wood flooring, equipment in the room. You use a house and not a designed studio, etc.

My questions: 1. For that final stem mix, how do you zero out the levels again to unity for sending to the dubbing mixer so he can have his session with all faders at unity? 2. Can you share a realtime writing session so we can see your speed at which you work and the workflow in a general sense if you haven't already? I'm very grateful you are so open to share this with the world. A truly great gift and a legacy being built and shared for us all. Thank you.

This was one of the the best, clearest, most comprehensive explanations I've ever seen from a world class professional writer, mixer, mastering engineer and producer all in one session applied from a real world example. Thank you!!! THIS is the kindness and conciseness others should follow to share the art so it continues on. A legacy shared here borne from long, hard earned experience. Wonderful. Grateful.

tanks for you guys

always learn new from JXL!!!!

Awesome! @dafingaz

thanks so much!!

Sound designer too. I loved the synth sound bank called Junkie XL those were preset he mades in Alchemy the synth of Camel Audio, before Apple bought Alchemy... He's soundbank were fantastic. I rage it doesn't exist in pc anymore. I saved installer an soundbank I had but cubase doesn't accept to recognise it anymore...

do you have issues with Waves?

1797 tracks?! W.T.F.

Edit: AND 50 returns?

I don't get the dislikes...this is so informative!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to do these videos!!!

I'm a little bit surprised that he got parquet flloor in the studio. Never saw that in any studio, the ressonance is just to big

@Junkie XL...when you compose, record, mix..etc...are those ll separate paid gigs? Do you charge separately? Thanks.

ONE OF THE BEST

🙌🙏

I just want to know where to get that desk with the keyboard drawer.

Phenomenal!

You should have spent more time talking in the beginning...

I was lost in the clouds 🏔 when down dropped this video with the rope i needed so i can continue climbing. Thank you both for coming together and lowering down another life line. Most people kick rocks to people at the bottom ✊

Great info on the reverbs and depth and delay timing and panning thanks

WoW. Thanks 4 that lesson. I just have found a new teacher !!!!

Can't hear the "wider aspect" (percussion part in the beginning) since it was translated to us as mono. Nevertheless very cool class Tom!

FYI the first bit of mixing the at the start has mistakenly been exported (by Tom H acc. to sonicscoop) in mono. So that's why it sounds a bit crap, not because of Tom's recording or processing!

Very heavy duty presentation. Just for kicks- what kind of monster computer is able to keep up with a session like ths?? Thanks to Junkie XL for this.