If you want your drums to cut through and the splashes of your cymbals to sing without adding harshness and piercing overtones, this week’s video is for you. Make sure you follow these overhead EQ starting points the next time you’re EQ’ing drums. EQ is only one of the five plug-ins I show you how...
If you’ve wanted your toms to hit harder, feel thicker, and punch through the mix, this week’s video is for you. You don’t want those tom fills to get lost in the shuffle (no pun intended?), so make sure you use these EQ tips to get them to cut through. Remember, if you’re tired of...
Next up in our EQ Starting Point series, we have the kick drum. We’ll expand on the common practices of the drum bus and try to enhance the flavor, punch, and power of the kick. We’ll cover taming the low end, cutting out boxiness, and the starting points for thump. In the next video, we’ll...
I couldn’t believe the words coming out of her mouth. It seemed like time slowed down as she said it. “Why?” my two-year-old asked. I’d heard stories, but now that the moment was happening, I dreaded every minute of what might come. And I knew there was no coming back from it. Now I had to...
If you’d like to get rid of boxiness and boom so that you can create a punchy and powerful drum sound, watch this video. In the first part of my EQ Starting Point series I’ll walk you through some of the presets in the Audio Issues EQ so that you can make better home studio...
I went a long time without a mix template because it wasn’t a thing back in the day of live analog sound. Mixing whatever the live bands threw at me at the dark and musty music venue wasn’t unusual. Each show would be different. Each show would have random bands, each with separate instrumentation so...
Remember that movie “Multiplicity” with Micheal Keaton? It’s a movie from 1996 about an overwhelmed guy named Doug who clones himself to get more stuff done. Obviously, this is a very attractive proposition for anybody who’s got too much on their plate. Predictably, Doug’s quirky cloning experiment backfires with disastrous consequences, and although cloning might...
Have you ever been working on a mix where it sounds great at a low volume, but when you crank it up, it sounds super harsh? In this week’s EQ video we’ll cover the most common problem you’ll find in the high mids and high frequencies and how to avoid it. And if you’d like...
If you find yourself struggling to get clarity in the mid-range frequencies of your mix, this video will help. Boxiness is the most common problem in the mid-range frequencies, and it’s the most common cause of a lackluster mix. Here’s how to remove boxiness from your mix with EQ. If you’d like an easier way...
In this week’s video, we’ll be covering how to fix these common low-end frequency problems: Boominess How to find where the boominess is coming from A Great Way to Fix Boominess Muddiness Check out the video here: If you’d like an easier way to fix all your EQ issues, grab the Audio Issues EQ here.