If you’re mixing an acoustic guitar and need to know how to make it fuller and more brilliant without sounding shrill, this video will help. Each frequency range in the image corresponds to a specific character in the acoustic guitar’s sound. Deep Bass Like I’ve said time and again, filter out the low-end of the...
Guess who wrote the big jumbo featured article in January’s issue of MusicTech magazine? The one about advanced microphone techniques? Moi. You can check it out here: http://www.musictechmag.co.uk/mtm/magazine I cover everything about microphone techniques: the importance of the room and your mic selection, the difference between mono and stereo and how to record any instrument. Here...
Got this question from a reader: I recorded in garageband, which they say records in mono. While playing the music over my two studio speakers it sounds great. When I play it only on one speaker, some instruments are missing, so I mixed again in only one speaker. When playing it on the other speaker now,some...
I’m a big fan of the Norse gods. In fact, back in 1000 AD, Iceland converted to Christianity, but everyone who wanted to keep swearing(that’s their badass way of praying) to the Norse gods could do it as long as they did it in secrecy. The Vikings had some pretty cool gods. The big cat...
This is a guest post from Barry Gardner, mastering engineer at SafeandSound online mastering I have lost count of the number of times where I have seen the word mastering appear in the same sentence as the word mixing. The reality is they are 2 very different procedures within the realms of audio engineering and...
I recently had the opportunity to interview Different Fur Studios’ Patrick Brown. Patrick Brown is the owner of the iconic Different Fur Studios, located in the Mission district in San Francisco. He worked as the engineer for the new Toro y Moi album and he took the time to discuss his approach to producing, as...
I bet many of you would love to study music production at a kick-ass music school. Your classes take place in high-end studios instead of musty classrooms. Sounds swanky don’t it? Too bad it’s not always worth the trouble. You can learn most of the stuff they teach you at home. I’ve actually crunched the numbers...
To celebrate the holidays, I’ve written a short eBook for you. It’s completely free. It’s also fairly weird. We have this weird tradition back home about our 13 santa clauses that come to town one by one and bear gifts. But they weren’t always nice. The old stories portray them as trickster who terrorized the...
A cheap condenser microphone can make a great gift. For whom? For you of course! I always have problems asking for gear for Christmas because it can be so expensive. I can’t just walk up to Grandma and ask her for a U87, can I? That’s one condenser microphone that’s not cheap. But I feel...
I’ve got a fair amount of questions about music production from readers lately. I haven’t been able to answer them all so I took the liberty of compiling some of them into one short post. I get a lot of the same questions sometimes so hopefully this will help you, even if you haven’t asked...