EQ’ing is hard! And you engineers get real worried sometimes about how many plug-ins you’re “supposed” to use on on a track. Or how much cutting or boosting you’re “allowed” to do. It’s all a bit funny to me because it just doesn’t matter. You can do whatever you want if the end result sounds...
This is a guest post by Niklas J. Blixt. All right gals and pals, before I get any further into the topic I’m gonna debunk the myth that says that you can’t record professional sounding drums in your home studio. Or any other place that isn’t built for drum recording purposes. Maybe I’m sticking my...
Let me tell you another “Oh god…here he goes again…” Hang on, it’ll be funny. So the reason I went down there is because my friend Idar owns a studio and wanted me to record him and his band. Don’t Wear Multiple Hats He didn’t want to play multiple roles. He absolutely could’ve done it...
One of my favorite books on mixing is The Art of Mixing. It’s all very visual and it shows you how different styles are mixed with the use of a three-dimensional room diagram. All the instruments in the mix are then represented in this room as circles of varying sizes to show their importance and...
If you’re anything like me you’re probably always looking for the next quick trick to make your mixes sound better. I’ve been in those shoes for the last week. I wanted to try out a new approach to my mixes just to spice things up. I wanted some new tips and tricks to try out...
Just like I said I would, I finished my in-depth report on my recent trip down to Mexico to record Los Borders, a funk fusion band. In case you’re interested in the full report I thought I’d give you a quick tease preview. For the full report I’ve now included it within the Recording & Mixing Strategies...
I was driving around town the other day. Going a route I’ve gone a thousand times before. But this time I happened to notice this house that I’d never seen before. Even though I drive past that house all the time I was pretty sure I was seeing it for the first time. Hearing New...
I’m gonna let you in on some of the things I learned from last weekend’s marathon recording session. I can’t believe we tracked 9 songs in 5 hours but when you surround yourself with incredible musicians they make it look easy. I’ll be giving away a much more comprehensive report of the whole thing to...
Here’s a drum recording trick I never thought about until Thursday. Toms can resonate pretty heavily even if they’re tuned well. So much that it can interfere with other drums and cause muddiness in the overall sound. You want those drums to sound powerful and heavy but it’s terrible if your 16″ floor tom is resonating...
A reader writes in with a problem on recording vocals: “I don’t have money to buy several mics and it’s a bit of a problem I face for recording different vocalist. Cause each of them sounds different in the same mic.” Well I guess you just gotta go buy a new microphone every time you...