Derek Ali

Derek Ali popularly known as MixedbyAli is a Grammy Award-winning mix engineer. His career began in Los Angeles in the late 2000s recording and mixing for Top Dawg Entertainment artists Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, SZA and more recently Bas, Nipsey Hussle, Snoop Dogg and many others.

In 2018, he invented an online mixing program and community for mixing engineers called EngineEars which is aimed at teaching upcoming engineers techniques that will improve the quality of mixes they create and provide a world class mixing access to artists remotely.

Ali mixes "in the box" (without the use of analog gear) when working with certain audio effects, such as vocals. However, he credits a mixing console for his "crispiness". About using hardware, Ali says: "If you have the gear, I suggest you use it. How I look at this way of mixing is I feel like you're inside the computer."

About 80% of his mixes are done in mono, which is a method he learned from Dr. Dre.

Ali has been nominated for the Grammys 5 times and has won 3 Grammys.

2018Black Panther: The Album [Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture] - Kendrick LamarMixing

2018 Invasion of Privacy - Cardi BMixing

2018 Milky Way - BasMixing

2018 Platinum Fire - Arin RayMixing

2018 Redemption - Jay RockMixing

2018 Victory Lap - Nipsey HussleMixing

2017 DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar Mixing

2017CTRL. - SZAMixing

Though Ali was introduced to mixing DAWs like Pro Tools by Punch and Dave Free, his most notable professional teacher is Dr. Dre whom he served under as an intern.