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6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Assembly · August
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StThe monthly centerpiece. An evening given over to craft and conversation, with time set aside for tracks to be played and talked through.
Assembly / monthly
The working
session.
Assembly is the Alliance's monthly centerpiece — one evening a month at Station Austin, given over to craft and conversation.
A workshop opens the night. Then the room turns to track feedback: work in progress on the big speakers, played out loud and talked through together. No clock, no showdown — just the work, taken seriously.
Next workshop
Workshop 08
August
Low end, under control
Presented by
Rae Delgado
Mix engineer · Eastside Sound Annex
Rae has spent a decade mixing club records out of an East Austin control room and teaches low end the way she learned it — by breaking a good mix in front of you and putting it back together.
Sub that swallows the kick. Basslines that vanish on a phone speaker. Mixes that fall apart the moment a real system turns on. This session takes the bottom octaves apart and puts them back in order.
Rae works through a live session from the roster — carving the kick-and-bass pocket, choosing what carries the weight, and checking the result on the worst speaker in the building. Bring headphones to follow along in your own project.
Session files
- Workshop slides
Every chart from the session, annotated after the fact.
- Low-end reference chain
The bus chain Rae builds live, saved out for six DAWs.
- Before-and-after stems
The session bounced at the start and the end of the night.
Track feedback / Every assembly
Put a track on the list
Every Assembly holds space for work in progress. Put a track on the list and it gets played out loud at the next one, then talked through in the room while it is still ringing.
A streaming or download link works, and so does a bounce straight out of your session. Unfinished is fine — rough mixes get the most useful conversation.
Bring the same link or bounce with you on the night.
AIF, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, WAV. Up to 50 MB each; the list holds 5 tracks, links included.
Link
File
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Assembly · September
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StAssembly · October
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StAssembly · November
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StAssembly · December
Station Austin · 701 Brazos St
Archive / 7 on file
Minutes from past sessions
Session 07 /
Assembly · July
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StA guest-led session on reworking someone else's material, followed by the usual round of listening and feedback.
Session 06 /
Assembly · June
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StAn evening on arrangement and finishing, with the back half given over to playback and open discussion.
Session 05 /
Assembly · May
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StA working session on sound design, then time for anyone with a track to put it on the speakers.
Session 04 /
Assembly · April
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StA guest walked the room through their workflow end to end, then stayed for feedback on everyone else's.
Session 03 /
Assembly · March
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StMixing and reference tracks, taken apart in front of the room, with playback and notes to close.
Session 02 /
Assembly · February
Station Austin · 701 Brazos StA session on starting points — how a track gets moving, and what to do when it stalls. Playback and notes to close.
Session 01 /
Assembly · January
Austin Central Library · 710 W Cesar Chavez StAn evening in the library room. Tracks went up on the speakers one at a time, and the questions after each one ran longer than the playback.