Interview (Page 2).
Tim Brunsden: “Summarise your style and vision.”
Hildebrand: “Well, with every the projects my vision is to pull it all together – combine it into one concept. Part of that is to mix it coherently and use the same styles across the record, yet still introduce different attitudes in the songs. That is my main aim.
- Where we are at now with the Alice Klar record is that that is exactly happening. This is why Badzura gets excited and I’m excited, too. We’ll get a lot more things done and it’ll give us a fat record. Let’s make the word FAT the most important thing in this interview, shall we?”
TB: “It does say a lot, but someone outside this mixing room might not understand that term. So what does it mean?”
Hildebrand: “There is no better way of expressing it though… and, I don’t know, everybody is saying ‘That sounds fat’ all the time.
Badzura: “Yea, it’s always used.”
Hildebrand: “Yea, well, to make a song sound fat is a bit like welding metal together and painting it with gloss. Suddenly the metal has shape and looks shiny, it looks new and gets its own personality. Maybe because you put a big red gloss on! That is how I’d describe mixing.
There is a thickness to the sound after, which really matters. I approach the mix in a specific way to make that happen, that it sounds always fat everywhere – on the Radio, HiFi or Club – extending the sounds sonically.“
TB: “Chris Badzura prefers somebody else to introduce personality to the mixing process. Watching you work, it seems like there is a line, so that you don’t take over, yet still bring something extra.”
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Hildebrand: “My personality in this process comes out through the way I put on that gloss. I think there is a specific sound to how I create my personal gloss, which is still in line with the artist’s idea. If you compare my mix to that of another, given the same song, you will find it being very different sonically. Maybe because of the way the basses sit in the mix and the vocals sound.
Even across the musical styles I tend to create a specific colouration that is shaped by my personality – and makes my personality at the same time, I suppose.”
TB: “It sounds amazing. Is that because of the Studio?”
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Badzura: “The Chairworks Studio is full of toys that Hildebrand loves and also instruments. So we might be recording some additional sounds. There are the technical aspects of having a lot of outboard gear and an SSL 4000 G+. But the vibe in the studio is great, including the food and accommodation. It all works together.
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