A reader recently showed me a These technique have been used so often that they’re almost laughable. So I took some of them to share with you and made up some of my own along with some great input from Jon Tidey on Twitter. Have you done any of these? I know I’ve been guilty...
This is a guest post by Kiley Rorrison. One of the most indispensable tool to great music production are our superior listening skills. For many musicians or engineers, having phenomenal listening skills come naturally. time to implement. Once gained, superior listening skills will bring your work to a higher level. Here, are 5 ways to...
I like to listen to podcasts when I’m going about my day. Not podcasts about music production or songwriting. No, I need something else to take my mind off things. There’s this one podcast that’s absolutely terrific. It’s called This American Life. It’s been going on forever and it’s one of the few apps I’ve actually...
Let me get a little deep for a second. Trust me, it’ll be worth it. Economies of scale is an economics term that pops up in all aspects of business. Wikipedia defines it as: Cost advantages that an enterprise obtains due to expansion. With efficiency your costs go down while you can still charge the...
Reverb is one of those things that even the most experienced of engineers are still trying to figure out. It’s like the Higgs Boson of the audio industry. Engineers have used and analyzed it for years, but they haven’t quite cracked it yet. Even if you’re not a seasoned engineer(or a quantum physicist) you can...
There’s something about taking something you love, like your music, and making it better than you ever thought. It’s like the Extreme Makeover shows. For example, they take a rundown house and create a paradise out of it for the family. New furniture, new architecture, new everything. How about we do that to your music?...
I saw the new Batman movie last month. I’ve mulled it over in my head for a while. I liked it, but it didn’t quite stand up to the quality of The Dark Knight. The Joker story is just too good to beat. Anyway, I just really like the new Batman movies. But there’s one thing...
I was helping out a friend in his studio the other day, comparing different drum recording techniques. He was focusing on different overhead techniques. It was actually pretty interesting because we ended up with testing every overhead technique at the same time, which resulted in a lot of mics around the drum-kit. It wasn’t a...
A year ago I thought I was a decent enough mastering engineer. I mean, it wasn’t so hard. You only needed 3-4 things really. Gain. EQ. Compression. Limiting. No worries I thought. I got this. Turns out I was more of a Episode I Anakin than an Episode VI Luke. I had the instinct and...
Guitarists are like girls. Can’t live with them, can’t live without ’em. And I should know. I’m one of them. And I also live with a girl…. Point being, we get caught up in our “tone” a lot. Even when our “tone” has nothing to do with the song at hand. I’ve done these mistakes time...