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Unfiltered – The Lee Fields’s Mixing Podcast

UnfilteredLeeFields 3 Episodes Jul 28, 2026

Unfiltered with Lee Fields is an audio podcast for engineers, creatives, and production leaders. Hosted by Lee Fields, founder of BlackBox and co-founder of MxU, the show offers raw conversations and deep dives into live audio, mixing techniques, and leadership. With over two decades of experience mixing for artists like Elevation Worship and Maverick City, Lee shares advanced methods and insider knowledge. The podcast aims to elevate the craft without gatekeeping or theory.

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Keys, Tracks & Band Bus Compression Jul 28, 2026 1885 Keys, Tracks & Band Bus Compression | Professional Mixing Workflows with Lee Fields In this episode, Lee Fields from BlackBox dives into the workflows behind great live mixes, covering keys, tracks, and band bus compression. Whether you're mixing concerts, corporate events, houses of worship, touring productions, or broadcast, these practical techniques will help you create cleaner, more cohes

Q&A - Part 1 Jun 30, 2026 3593 This week's a live Q&A straight from the console. Y'all sent in questions and I'm answering with tracks loaded, so when I say something, I'm showing you. Snare processing with other plugins, drum bus routing, delay compensation, OH's bleeding into toms, getting depth without sounding like a brick wall, and lottttts more. Got a question for the next Q&A? Hit me up on Instagram. This episo

Bass & Guitar Jun 3, 2026 1877 Everyone talks about vocals. Everyone argues about drums. But if you want to know why a mix feels powerful, stable, emotional, or expensive, start with the relationship between the bass and guitars. In this episode of Unfiltered, Lee dives into one of the most overlooked parts of mixing: creating space, movement, and impact between the instruments that carry the weight of the song. From frequency

Toms & Overheads May 20, 2026 1995 How do you get toms to sound massive without wrecking your mix? When should you gate drums, compress overheads, or use parallel compression? And what makes the API 2500 one of the most respected bus compressors ever built? In Episode 2 of Unfiltered: The Lee Fields Mixing Podcast, Lee continues building a live mix from the ground up, moving beyond kick and snare into toms, overheads, drum bus proc

Welcome - Kick & Snare May 4, 2026 2671 Welcome to Unfiltered, a new series from BlackBox built for the live audio and mixing community. Hosted by Lee Fields, this season goes deep—methodically unpacking the fundamentals, science, technique, and philosophy behind building a great mix. No fluff. No shortcuts. Just long-form conversation about what actually matters. In this episode, we start at the foundation: Kick and Snare. Two inputs t

Unfiltered – The Lee Fields’s Mixing Podcast

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