of the pack. “In this day and age, mixers are no longer dependent on what’s given to them on a hard drive,” elaborates Mark Bogle from his mix room in Los Angeles’s Jamarbo Studios. “The capacities of the tools we now have at our disposal are immense. We can do almost anything at the push of a button, and it’s all non-destructive. The day and age when we threw up the faders and thought ‘I wish I had this or that,’ are over. It’s massively acceptable now, and even expected, that we add things.Unlike many other successful mix engineers, Mark Bogle puts great emphasis on hearing the rough mix.. Many older engineers will knock these kids, saying that they’re only using plug-ins, and that the older stuff sounds so much better, and everything is getting worse and worse and worse. And I am saying: your idea of worse is not everybody’s idea of worse. Pro Tools, or other DAWs, and plug-ins might not sound like outboard gear, but they are giving kids who may have better creative ideas than you and me the opportunity to do the same thing as we are doing. What they may be losing in sonic quality they gain in creative possibilities.