Steve Dub: Grammy Winning Producer, Mixer & Songwriter

Steve Dub is a five-time Grammy award-winning producer, mixer, programmer and songwriter - known for his work with the Chemical Brothers, but with a wealth of other artists, like UNKLE, Moby, Roots Manuva, New Order, The Prodigy, Leftfield, Primal Scream, Orbital, Beth Orton, Moby and Underworld. Interviewed here for Sound on Sound by Kevin Paul Biog, here's more... 

Steve Dub shares insights into his workflow as a producer, discussing his ongoing work with The Chemical Brothers, his love of experimentation and how he adapts his methods to mixing in the box.

Heres the article on their site, and here are the video timestamps..

00:00 - Introduction 00:42 - Konk And Stone Roses 04:27 - Working With George Holt 09:16 - Developing A Personal Style 12:50 - Adapting Old Workflows For DAWs 16:02 - The Chemical Brothers 19:35 - Studio Collaborations / Genres 22:52 - Mixing For Moby And The Orbital 28:20 - Listening To Music 30:07 - Approaching A New Mix 33:05 - Sidechaining / Mixing In The Box 39:25 - Favourite Piece Of Equipment 43:16 - Things To Avoid In The Studio 45:34 - Experimenting With A Mix

If you want to know more, here's an interview with Steve from 2019. Here's an excerpt on his relationship with the Chemical Brothers:
 

Yes, I am their sort of third ear. They have a situation where they work together, and then I can come in at the end and help deconstruct it and then reconstruct it as an engineer. Quite often I will go in and Tom & Ed will have written some drums and I might just mix the drums. Then 6 months later I will mix other sounds to go with these drums. We have a very open way of working. It remains quite fluid until the very end, especially on this last album where there was a lot of room for experimentation. For the first album we only had 3 weeks to make the records in a little studio which was great fun, but now we don't have this time constraint. There's lots of different version of tracks, samples that don't go on one but maybe on another, a baseline from one track that goes on to another - things move around a lot. Obviously modern technology makes that a lot easier!
 

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