You’re happily dreaming away this morning when the eighth Yuletide Trickster rears his ugly head. Skyr Gobbler is a big fat meanie who sneaks into your studio and adds too much low-end to all of your mixes. He gobbles down his Skyr, a kind of Icelandic Yogurt, as he plays with your EQ curves. He...
If you’re just joining us in our Yuletide tale, check out the previous stories of the Yulelads playing tricks on your tracks right here. Today we have Bowl-Licker scurrying down the mountain to make a mess of your music productions. As you would expect, his schtick is to sneak into your house and lick all...
You’ve been working on your mixes long into the night when a sudden noise breaks your concentration. *Slam!* What was that? You hit the spacebar and the looped snare drum stops in its tracks. *Slam!!!* The sound reverberates throughout your home studio. The ringing flutter of your untreated room echoes in your ears and you...
Shivering down the mountain today is Pot Scraper, the fifth Yuletide Trickster to wreak havoc with your home studio mixes. As you would expect from his name, he loves to steal leftovers from pots because he’s constantly cold and searching for some semblance of warmth. He sneaks into your studio and with shivering hands finds...
Keep your low-end under surveillance today because Spoon Licker is the fourth Yulelad to come down from the mountain to play tricks on your tracks. He’s an abnormally thin and malnourished lad. Because of that, he’s set his sights on the low-end of your mixes to make you feel just how awful it is to...
As you snore away, dreaming of perfectly dynamic mixes with just the right amount of compression, the third Yuletide Trickster makes his way to your studio. Stubby, or Stúfur as his brothers call him, is the third brother to come down from the mountain. He’s a tiny little twat with a huge inferiority complex and...
If you’re looking for great vocal productions from your home studio, today’s Yuletide gift might be a good one. Giljagaur or Gully-Gawk is the second Yuletide Trickster to terrify the home studios this year. He’s been known to hide in gullies, waiting for an opportunity to steal milk, but there’s not a single cow to...
Instrumentals aside, vocals are the most important part of any song. Through lyrics and melody, they connect directly with the heart of your audience. If your song is supposed to deliver a lasting impression, the vocals need to be spot-on. Back in the days, bands recorded the same song over and over until they got...
There are certain things that separate great tracks from clearly amateur tracks. And bad engineering is one of them. If there are plosives in your track, that could ruin the whole experience. So how do you remove plosives? In this post, I’ll go over what plosives are, how to keep them out of your recording,...
Welcome to Day 1 of our Yuletide Trickery series. As you fall fast asleep to your thoughts of improving your drum sound, you’re blissfully unaware of the treachery that’s about to befall you. The first Yule Lad to wreak havoc on your home studio is Stekkjarstaur or Sheep-Cote Clod. Stekkjarstaur used to have a fondness...