He prefers not to go overboard with outboard, and the rack of specialist gear that he has assembled over the years is relatively modest. Everything after that has been 100 percent in the box." Goldstein calls himself a "fairly minimalist mixer", whose immediate instinct is to respect the sounds used by the producer, and not to reach for 'trickery' as a first resort. B'Day was the last record, says Goldstein, that he did "as a hybrid of in and out of the box. Of the latter, the URS Fulltec EQ (top) added weight to the kick drum, while Sony's Oxford Transient Modulator was used to shape the attack of the kick drum and finger-snap sound. Jason Goldstein's mix for 'Déjà Vu' used both hardware and software processors. Today Goldstein works mainly from Sony Music Studios in New York.
Back in New York, he hooked up with R&B/hip-hop production duo the Track Masters, who gave him his break into mixing. The then teenager responded to a job advert from the legendary Ocean Way, where he honed his recording skills "old school and hands-on". Goldstein mixed 10 of the album's 11 songs, including the worldwide smash hits 'Déjà Vu' (Grammy nominations for Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration), 'Ring The Alarm' (Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance), and 'Irreplaceable', which spent 10 weeks at the top of the US Billboard charts.Ī Washington DC native, Goldstein moved to Los Angeles in the early '90s. Beyoncé's second solo album has racked up 3.5 million sales worldwide, and was nominated for a Best Contemporary R&B Album Grammy award. " B'Day is my biggest record to date," he says proudly, and big it is. Since the beginning of his recording and mixing career in the early '90s, the 36-year old has worked with Jennifer Lopez, LL Cool J, Rihanna, Mary J Blige, the Roots, Jay-Z, B Rich, Toni Braxton and, most famously, Beyoncé Knowles. Jason Goldstein is one of the rising stars of the American R&B/hip-hop mix scene. Jason Goldstein tells us how he put together hit mixes for 'Déjà Vu' and 'Irreplaceable'. Beyoncé's second solo album, B'Day, has yielded two of the biggest singles of the year.
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