Mastering your music is the final technical step in audio production before releasing your creation to the world. A mastering engineer ensures that your mix is balanced for tone, consistent in dynamics, and adheres to loudness standards set by the recording industry. Even though your mastering engineer handles all of the heavy lifting to get...
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...
How do you make sure your ads get seen by the right people? And when you find the right people, how do you make sure they take the next step with you to become your fan or client? Watch this video to hear our thoughts on positioning your ads correctly so that they attract the...
The term acoustics often conjures images of recording studios or grand performance venues. And while acoustics and the physics of sound are essential for any venue, the acoustic properties of any setting can directly impact more than what you hear. Noise-polluted offices can tank productivity and cause unneeded stress. And audio recorders need to maximize...
When you’re growing your audience, should you hustle making organic content hoping to reach the right people, or should you bite the bullet and spend money on paid ads to reach your ideal fan, customer, or client? The answer depends on your particular situation, and honestly, you should always be doing a bit of both....
We’ve all been there. You’ve set up your own home studio and recorded what you thought was a great vocal take. But when you listen back later, you find the vocals sound “boxy.” Why might this happen – and how can you use multiband compression to fix it? First, let me define what I mean...
Your DAW is your faithful companion throughout your everyday audio adventures. Many engineers will elect one piece of software and use it for all production tasks they need to perform. Using only one DAW has one big advantage – you will get blazing fast if you’re always operating the same piece of software. In this...
I told you this week I would share some of my favorite mixing techniques to move the needle of your music and today we’re gonna talk about delay and depth. This simple technique is something that I love doing to create a three-dimensional image from the start And it starts by “breaking” the rules and...
Compression is one of the hardest parts of mixing to understand. You know you’re supposed to use it but you can’t really tell what it’s doing. And to be fair, you can use compression in a hundred different ways. But if you don’t know how to hear what it’s doing you may misuse it because you...
The way you approach a music production session can drastically change the end result of the song. Depending on what kind of sound you want, you can approach it with one of two mindsets. You can produce a track like a songwriter. Or you can produce a track like a producer. Let me talk about...