Billy Decker (Sam Hunt, Chris Young, Rodney Atkins)

Based in Nashville, Billy Decker is a country music mixer, engineer, and producer with sixteen Billboard number-ones under his belt, including Riding Roads by Dustin Lynch. An RIAA certified mixer, he’s worked with artists ranging from Sam Hunt, Chris Young, Rodney Atkins, and Dustin Lynch to Parmalee, Colt Ford, Darius Rucker, amongst many others. Decker also mixed George Jones’s last album prior to his passing in 2013.

Tell us about your current studio setup.

Pro Tools 10 on a 2011 Apple. LOL. Mackie MRK 2 speakers with an 18” quested sub using a Pro-Control as a control surface. My go-to plugins are the CLA 1176, Metric Halo Channel Strip, a Waves L2, and, of course, my own plugins from JST.

How do you typically approach a mix?

Everything starts out in one of my templates, and most of the editing is already done. But sometimes I will be asked to fly stuff around or chop out sections.

What's typically on your mix buss these days?

It starts out with a Sonnox EQ, then a Kramer Pie, the Oxford Inflator and then the Isotope Ozone Maximizer.