Yo, let’s dive into the beats of today’s chat where we’re kickin’ it with the mix maestro himself! We’re spillin’ the tea on why having a good ear for sound trumps all the fancy gear you can stack in your studio. Seriously, if your mix ain’t hittin’, it’s not just about twistin’ knobs; it’s all about what you’re listening for and how you interact with the music. Precious breaks it all down,.

Takeaways:

• Mixing isn't just about gear; it starts with having a good ear for sound.
• The right equipment won't save a poor mix if the source isn't solid, my friend.
• Listening to a range of music and asking questions can seriously train your ear.
• Worship events should focus on pure worship without distractions or protocols, dude!
• Creating a great sound is about understanding the source, not just manipulating the knobs.
• Reverence Place aims to bring the vibe of worship to Calabar without any fluff!

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If you don't have a good ear, you cannot use a good gear.

The gear is simply doing what the ear wants you get.

Because mixing first of all doesn't even start from you turning knobs, it's paying attention to the source.

If your drum doesn't sound great, is the drum head good?

Is the shell good?

Is the drummer using the right stick?

Is the drummer good?

Is the drummer strength?

So there are a lot of factors.

So.

But when you just move from, you have never heard the drum like what I see some engineers do, they have.

Never heard the drum.

They are loading plugins, they are eqing already.

That's not right.

Sometimes you might not even need to EQ some things.

I've done some shows where my inputs,.

Most of them are like they are flat.

Flat, you understand?

So the gear basically does what the ear.

Now the ear helps you do a lot of things more than people that actually even have the gear and know.

How to use the gear.

Why for example now for some things.

Not to even sound harsh, it might just be from how you set your compressor.

Just your simple attack and release can.

Change a lot in the tone of the sound.

So but you need to first of all know what to listen for, which is important.

Why you have to listen to even.

Other songs, other engineers, you have to ask questions.

There's nothing you cannot learn like to train the ear.

Because the ear just needs to know what it's listening for.

So for example, I'm going to even mix a show.

I first of all have to listen to music that is in line with.

That genre that probably I didn't even mix.

Why?

Just to give me a visual representation.

In my head imagination of what I want the tone to sound like.

So walking into that venue, seeing that.

Decks and everything, I know what I'm looking for.

And if I don't get it, I.

Go to the source.

If the source is not giving, then there's something wrong in between.

The microphone might not be right or something.

And I'm easy to find because I.

Know what I want to listen for.

You get.

So the ear very important to me.

Top on the list before gear.

But unfortunately, even with the best years, the worst gears will not still, will not still perform.

There's actually no balance.

There's no balance.

Yes.

Because you can have the best year, have all the skill if you're using crappy equipment.

Crappy equipment to give you crappy.

Not for.

For this whole tricks that people use.

To come and say I can make $10,000 a comment sound like $1,000,000.

My brother, you lie.

Gear is good.

Yeah.

Is also very good.

That's true.

Let's talk about trp.

Okay, so TRP basically is the Reverence Place.

The Reverence Place was bettered from the.

Fact that most churches do not pay attention to worship.

Everybody goes for praise.

Praise, Praise God.

Praise God.

Praise God.

And I'm from a school of thought that worship is very important and even the Bible talks about that a lot of times.

Yes, I might be doing stuff for the secular world, but I'm a proper church boy.

You get.

I'm a brook church member and my church is the Bible believing church.

So worship is something that was very important to me.

And even when my then partner and I came together to form the Reverence Place.

Her name is Fumi Taiwo.

She was my partner then when we came together to form the Reverence Place,.

It was because we just wanted pure worship.

No man being glorified.

We just bringing professional things into the church.

Because the truth is that we as church people set the standards for the world to follow.

But the problem now is that the world is not setting standard for the church to follow.

So Reverend Place was supposed to be there to fix that.

Basically making people worship without we following any protocol.

So that's why in Reverence Place we do not acknowledge dignitaries, we do not stop for anybody.

We basically once we start by doing the call to worship.

Once we start worshiping, it is all the way to the end.

Because why we just want to let God do his thing.

I know it's currently held in Calabar.

Are there plans on taking it to Lagos, Abuja and wherever?

Because I'm sure we have people who are anticipating this event.

There were plans for us to tour.

But the thing is that Reverence Place.

Was supposed to fix not just a church worship problem.

Ryan's Place was supposed to be an avenue for tourism, Gospel tourism for Calabar.

So basically bring the woo is woo into Calabar.

So that was the idea of it.

So I don't need to come to Lagos to have a.

A proper worship event.

So whoever you want to see in.

Calabar, we will bring to Calabar.

That was one of the.

This is.

So we normally listen to the spirit.

And it Was like, it's not time yet.

That was not the vision.

And we're trying to stick with the vision.

We started from a small hall, we.

Move into bigger halls right now.

The vision is to do stadiums.

You get.

And the stadium is not just.

The plan is not for out of calabar.

The plan right now is calabar.

So basically everybody that wants to come here should come and experience it.

Now the only way we get out of calabar is with the content that's being recorded.

That's why we record content.

We don't record content because we are trying to earn from it.

We can content because we want other people to experience what is happening.

What better way to explain to them by just showing them videos of this is what we did.

And from the videos, most times you see the energy and what have you.

Someone stopped me the other day.

I was like, bro, this energy.

I'm like, no, no, no.

Whatever you watch, there is just 50% of whatever happens in the hall.

I can't even explain what happens in the hall.

I can say we plan, we design, we do this.

But I'll tell you for free, that day, once it comes to that day, I can tell you that it's God that's just doing his thing.

So, yeah, finally, every guest I've had has had to answer this question.

How do you handle rejection?

How do you handle no for an answer?

Okay.

For me, there's something I always say which a few persons used to see.

Like, I'm proud.

One is, I don't take no for an answer.

So for every time I'm rejected or for every time I don't get something, I feel there's something I'm not doing right and I look back and I go back and fix it.

And then my mantra has always been good, better, best.

I will never rest until my good is better, my better best.

This has been an incredible, very interesting con.

Thank you again, Precious.

And how do people reach you?

To reach me is very easy.

And Precious Tao everywhere, apart from Twitter, because I don't know how that thing works.

Sorry.

Or X. I've tried.

I don't know how that thing works.

But from Instagram, Snap, Facebook, Precious Towel.

I reply to my DMs for reverence place is at the Reverence place everywhere too.

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