Join us for a fun listening party this Friday, June 18th at 1 PM PDT where we’ll listen to an Audio Issues student album all the way through while discussing the production in the chat. Come join us live and ask any questions about the songs and how they were made as you’re listening to...
Ever feel bored with your mixing approach? Is your mixing process so rigid and structured that it robs the process of its creativity? Sometimes when we’ve been mixing for a while… we can get stuck in our ways. So here are 5 super fun creative mixing tips! 1) Automate your automation Automate the send amount...
So you want to do a cover song, but you want it to be excellent. Not like the ones that the local band down the street keeps making. Here are ten easy tips on how to arrange and record one in a polished yet creative way. How to Choose a Song While it sounds basic,...
This is an open letter to a recent email reply I received from a subscriber regarding our Pride Shirts. Dear Paul, I received your email correspondence to my new merch store recently. Thank you for your message. It seems like you were upset about the special shirt designs I made for the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate...
Instead of investing a lump sum of cash into merchandise that may or may not sell… Think differently. You can sell merch that costs very little (or nothing) upfront. This is good news for indie musicians — any chance you get to save money without sacrificing quality, take it. So here are three types of...
Mixing and mastering have a lot of technical and theoretical aspects, and it’s not uncommon to get caught up in doing everything correctly and by the book. While knowing the rules and norms are very important in order to achieve your desired result, they are not always the answer. Music is a very complex concept,...
What’s your favorite song? Well, I have too many to pick from but the first ones that stick out to me were catchy. They are the types of songs that any listener can get stuck in their head in an instant. While there are many elements of a great song to appreciate whether that be...
We’ve all felt it. We know it’s crucial for us to make our best music, but what is it? Well… you know, when you sit down to make music and suddenly find out 3 or 4 hours have gone by? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a major contributor to positive psychology. His research has spawned many discoveries...
As artists, producers, or engineers, we’ve had to reinvent ourselves during the seemingly never-ending pandemic! We moved from a world where live shows and music festivals were the fastest-growing part of our industry, to a really different reality when online presence is now everything. In the past year and a half, everyone in the music...
I used to be really cool. My wife always used to say that I was cooler than her, even though she’s a bigshot award-winning CEO who pulls off cloth-blazers like a boss. I was referred to as The Cool Friend. Being cool was a big part of my identity…I used to be a touring musician....