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Of course, when you’re in the box, a recall is just a double-click away. With the console and analogue gear it takes 20-30 minutes to switch songs, and you never get your recall 100%.
Doing it all in the box makes that much faster and efficient. Then I get all the notes for all the songs at once, and I spend a day making changes. In my previous room I had an SSL AWS900 for a short time, but today everybody expects me to mix song after song after song for an album. “This is where I am happiest, even though I still enjoy occasionally going out to record an album for someone. “For the last three years I’ve been pushing the mixing side of my work, and I now spend 90% of my time in this room, mixing,” explained Hawkins, who’s had his current studio setup for a year. On his web site, he lists quite a few nice analogue goodies, including a UA Blue Stripe 11, Chandler TG1, Manley Massive Passive, SSL G Compressor, Distressor, Altec 1612B Limiter, BAE Vintage API 312, Wunder PEQ2R, but Hawkins explained that these see very little, if any, action these days.
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His Pro Tools system with Avid HD I/O is at the heart of his studio, where he now works entirely in the box. Hawkins was speaking from his Acacia Sound studio in the backyard of his property near Los Angeles. I also used Avid Heat, which is part of the Pro Tools Mixer to add a little bit of crackle and distortion to everything in a pleasing way.” STILL HANDS ON Although the lead vocal sounds fairly natural, it has some distortion as it was pushed heavily though that tube preamp, and the backing vocals underneath are heavily treated and distorted. Many of the synth sounds and samples were already very distorted, and I recorded Elizondo playing a heavily distorted live bass through a fuzz pedal. A lot of that was already there before I started to mix. “On the vocals, the drums, the bass, and almost everything towards the big ending of the song.
“Yes, there’s a lot of distortion,” agreed Hawkins. His aim was simply to make it sound right for the ears and sonic sensitivities of Twenty One Pilots, Elizondo, and Pete Ganbarg, Atlantic Records’ Executive Vice President and Head of A&R.
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While distortion may be part of an overall aesthetic designed by the film’s music supervisor to fit in with the dark and creepy atmosphere of Suicide Squad, Hawkins said he didn’t refer to the movie at all. It seems he wasn’t alone either, as many of the other songs on the Suicide Squad soundtrack are awash with distortion. The words “overdriven” and “distorted” popped up a lot as Hawkins talked through the making of Heathens. It’s the same signal chain I used on the songs I recorded for Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface album, including Stressed Out.” The signal chain I used on Tyler’s vocals consisted of a Sony C800 mic, going into a UA610 preamp, which I was overdriving, and then into a UA Bluestripe 1176. But the rest of the arrangement is made up of synths and samples. After assistant engineer Brent Arrowood moved the session over to Pro Tools, we started overdubbing live drums, bass, guitar, and vocals. “He added and took away parts, and programmed additional drum sounds. From there, Elizondo “fine-tuned the arrangement,” recalled Hawkins. He took his demo over to Elizondo’s Can Am Studio for two days of further development and recording. Heathens was written by Tyler Joseph - singer, keyboardist and bassist of Twenty One Pilots - in Logic. There are strong similarities in the sound and musical direction of Stressed Out and Heathens, which is unsurprising as both were produced by Mike Elizondo and recorded by Adam Hawkins, who also mixed Heathens. The song was also the third big hit for Twenty One Pilots, a duo that broke through last year with the megahit Stressed Out, followed by the more moderately successful Ride.
Heathens was the lead single of the Suicide Squad movie soundtrack, and has been one of the big success stories of 2016.
The Chainsmokers’ Closer, Major Lazer’s Cold Water, Seeb’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza, DJ Snake’s Let Me Love You and Twenty One Pilots’ Heathens are just a few of the songs in that musical vein which have been slugging it out at the top of the hit parades all over the planet. Melancholy, minor-key, mid-tempo electropop appears to be all the rage these days. Distorting Twenty One Pilots for Suicide Squad.