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Recording songs is a profession that does not go unnoticed. Colt Blumenthal who has graduated from SAE has credit as a sound engineer with a 4.0 GPA. He has been working as a freelancer for quite a long time. He is based in Los Angeles but as a freelancer, he travels in different states. He is a studio engineer and has recorded many songs, and one of them is the song Blam Boom by the rising artist Nardo Wick. Nardo Wick has become a sensation because of his rap and music. Nardo Wick is a rapper from Jacksonville, Florida. In the year 2021, he became a top name in the rap industry after the official deal with RCA records.
Colt (MixedbyColt) (his website is mixedbycolt.com) got the call from the A&R to record the song of Nardo Wick at the Paramount Recordings Studios which is located in Los Angeles. The song Blam Bloom recorded by Colt Blumenthal is featured in the album Who is Nardo Wick? This album is famous on various platforms including Spotify and YouTube. As a freelancer, this turned out to be a good opportunity for Colt as he got to discover other states and worked with new people to broader his horizon. This song was on the trending chart list in the UK and the USA.
Colt along with others works so hard day and night to meet the deadline.
Before this Colt also worked on the posthumous album of Juice Wrld. Colt (MixedbyColt) played a role in the mixing of one of the famous songs Man of the Year by Juice Wrld from the album “Legends Never Die”. He was the assistant mixer of this song that remained on the Top chart list of Spotify. This song was not only on the chart list of the USA but in the UK as well. Although this album was released posthumously but surely it managed to capture the attention of music listeners one of the songs was Man of the Year, and Colt was the assistant mixer for this song.
Apart from this, he has also worked with DJ Scheme, Skrillex, and Zacari on the song Homesick which is the opening track of the studio album Family. Colt also recorded this song at one of the famous recording studios Shangri-La.
After this, Colt got a call to record the song of the rising sensation Nardo Wick which became an instant hit. Colt (MixedbyColt) has always been good at studies. While at college, he managed his study and professional life. He managed to pull out the best of himself and worked on that to polish and enhance the skills that would benefit him in long run. Colt with his studies and the help of extremely professional teachers learned to understand the techniques of music mixing and recording. However, there is a general misconception that mixing any song or music is easy and doesn’t require any particular skill. This is a totally biased misconception in the minds of people. Surely, it is a skill that some people are blessed with and Colt is one of them. He used to study during the day and practice in the studio at night while in college.
He is passionate about music, and by working in the background as a master recorder he has made his desire a reality. When recording a song, it’s important to pay close attention to the notes, balance them, and determine whether or not everything sounds good which is not an as easy task as it appears to be. He is looking forward to enhancing his skills in this domain by working more. Colt’s Instagram is @mixedbycolt and website is mixedbycolt.com
