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Metro Boomin and Future’s Mastering Engineer Reveals Their Secret Sauce
Metro Boomin and Future's mastering engineer for 'We Don't Trust You' and 'We Still Don't Trust You,' Joe LaPorta, discusses creating the No. 1 sets.
“[When I left New York University], the industry was completely different,” says the 44-year-old mastering engineer who has worked with everyone from Imagine Dragons to Miley Cyrus to, most recently, Future and Metro Boomin. LaPorta says the two artists wanted their latest full-lengths to feel like throwback Future releases, incorporating dusty soul samples and ’80s boom bap while retaining Future’s classic trap sound. “We have this cool collaborative process where he hears how I master it, he may make some adjustments, I might have some suggestions for him,” LaPorta says.
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