My Inside Track in the December 2015 issue of Sound on Sound magazine features Carlo “Illangelo” Montagnese, who has collaborated for several years with Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd. Montagnese played a central role in the making of The Weeknd’s most recent album, Beauty Behind The Madness, which has enjoyed extraordinary success worldwide.
Montagnese engineered, mixed and co-produced one of the big hits songs from the album, “The Hills.” He elaborates in great detail on the making of Beauty Behind The Madness in general, and his mix of “The Hills” in particular in the Sound on Sound article. To enjoy a deeper insight into Montagne’s working methods, below all the screen shots he made available of his Cubase mix session of the song. In-line below they are reduced-size popups. If you want the screen shots in full resolution, download the zip file.
Carlo Montagnese coming out of the shadows…
All The Hills screen shots in one zip file
The Hills Edit Window 1
The Hills Edit Window 2
The Hills Edit Window 3
The Hills Edit Window 4
The Hills Edit Window 5
The Hills Mix Window 1
The Hills Mix Window 2
The Hills Mix Window 3
The Hills Mix Window 4
The Hills Mix Window 5
The Hills Mix Window 6
The Hills Mix Window 7
The Hills Mix Window 8
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Hi Paul!
Unfortunately i’m not able to buy this article from SOS’s website anymore, for some reason there’s an error when I try to add it to the cart, is there an alternative website or way I can purchase it?
Thank you for the high res screenshots.
Filipe!
Hi Filipe, thanks for writing and glad you enjoy the screen shots. The SOS web editor tells me that your PDF problem “sounds like a cookie problem. All that’s needed to solve it is make sure he accepts the cookie policy from the bottom right of his screen. From there he can add things to his basket.” Hope this works for you!
Thank you for sharing this post Paul, I loved the article and learning from your web site.
I purchased the December issue of sos on my way out of New York last month after having no luck searching for a copy for weeks near where I was staying in Florida lol I had to resort in purchasing the pdf of inside track before hand too as I was keen to learn about this mix! I splashed out on a few UAD plugins under his recommendation – the ams reverb is amazing, were there any screenshots of this? Just a heads up the zip file and the pics aren’t loading correctly for me at this end.
Wishing you a happy new year and keep on with the great writing!
Best regards,
Joseph
Hi Joseph, glad you enjoy the article(s), and the link should be working now.
Happy New Year to you as well! Paul.