Getting your name out there as a serious mixing engineer is a daunting task. The market is crowded and getting picked is difficult. In this 3-part blog series, I’m going through 6 concepts and key-questions to help you get your name out there. For this second article, I will explain two crucial concepts to help...
Getting your name out there as a serious mixing engineer is a daunting task. The market is crowded. And with more and more easy-to-use tools, musicians are better able to take care of mixing and audio processing themselves. But as most people in music know, a solid, professional mix requires a solid, professional mixing engineer....
There are virtually infinite ways to mix a song. And there are virtually infinite ways to write a song. Taking this into consideration makes it obvious that there are also virtually infinite preferences when it comes to both mixing and music making. I’m sure you’ve experienced this yourself. You show a mix to a client...
Knowing when your mix is done is difficult. Your mix may sound perfect in your studio and just decent in your living room. You may have achieved more or less the exact same frequency response in your mix as in your reference track, but something still sounds off. You may have equalized and compressed all...
Achieving a full-sounding mix can be a difficult task. Even if you have a well-arranged and professionally produced song, adding that depth and fullness we all love can seem impossible no matter how much you tweak your plug-ins and level your tracks. Sometimes it’s not about how well you level and process the tracks of...
Mixing is an art that goes beyond knowing what every button on your mixer or plug-in does, the theory behind compression, knowing what frequencies are usually problematic on various elements, or knowing what equalizing techniques are “the best” and so on. The stuff mentioned above is important, but it’s something anyone can learn with enough...
Reverb, or reverberation, refers to the persistence of a sound after it is produced. In other words, for how long you can hear a sound after it’s done playing. Whether you just started mixing or you’ve been doing it for a long time, reverb is one of your most powerful mixing and production tools. And...
Groovy drums are crucial to pretty much any song that has drums in it. While authentic groovy drumming only can be achieved by a real groovy drummer, there are certain things you can do in the mixing process to help shake things up a bit. Especially for programmed drums and samples, these techniques can be...
Delay as an audio effect, is the process of repeating a sound signal with a certain amount of time delay between the repetitions. The possibilities with delay are enormous and reach far beyond the simple echo in a big valley sound that most people relate to delay. Stereo sound, chorus effects, flanging, and more can...
Parallel processing is a common term in music production and is a technique commonly used to breathe more life into a track. But what is it really, and how does it work? The basic idea is that you duplicate a track, either by duplicating the actual audio track or by routing the audio to a...