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As a creative, you’ll understand the pressures that come with being creative. Being this mentally engaged non-stop through the week will inevitably lead to feeling burned out; similar to writer’s block, where you can’t think of any ideas, and you just feel exhausted. This will happen to all creatives at some point or another, and...
Learning to mix is not an easy job, especially for someone with no insight into it whatsoever. There are hundreds of plugins to learn how to use and then thousands of articles to consume which can all be a little too much for anyone. The worst part is – there are no shortcuts. You have...
The arrangement is probably the most critical element of any piece of music ever created. It is the process of transforming individual musical components into one complete, smooth-sounding track, but it is always the last hurdle where a lot of artists fall flat, making excuses and avoiding it for as long as possible. Here are...
This is a guest post by Adi Szasz. If you would like to contribute a guest post to Audio Issues, please read the guest post guidelines right here. Regardless of the genre that you’re producing, the low-end is the “resting place” of the production. You can compare it to a heartbeat that gives color to the...
This is a guest post by Gavin Whitner. If you would like to contribute a guest post to Audio Issues, please read the guest post guidelines right here. Let’s face it, choosing the best type of microphone for recording your vocals is no easy business. In fact, it’s got to a point where there are...
Impossible. Unheard of. Won’t happen. This has always been my assumption: Musicians are always going to play differently during the band soundcheck in an empty room than they will with their adrenaline pumping in a full-house. For this reason, I have always just tried to complete band soundchecks as quickly as possible, knowing that many...
“What is a limiter and how do you use one?” That’s a question we often get asked so I went straight to the expert for answers. Basically, a limiter is just a very aggressive compressor that tames the audio peaks and raises the overall level of your home studio mixes. However, I wanted a more...
We all have to start somewhere. Most people will go through a series of objectively average mixes before they start to refine their skills and understanding. Flying blind is one of the most powerful ways to integrate a lesson, but it definitely helps to have some insight going into it. You will make mistakes along...
Audio analyzers are dumb. They just deliver data. Our job is to interpret that data from Smaart or SATlive or SIM3 (well, if you’re reading this…you probably don’t own a $10,000 SIM3). But we can’t do that if the data is bad. Here is a collection of my best tips on getting good data with...
When I started getting into home audio production a few years ago, I had already been a musician for a good ten years, my primary instrument being guitar. Up until that point, the extent of my recording experience laid somewhere in between tinkering on a now-archaic analog four-track machine and capturing ideas on my phone’s...