If you haven’t watched Cobra Kai yet, you’re missing out on a fun guilty pleasure. On one end, you have Sensei Lawrence, who pushes students hard in less than ideal ways, teaching offense and “no mercy.” On the other end, you have LaRusso, the original Karate Kid, who leads with balance, humility, and honor. It’s...
You gotta stop adding this frequency range to your mixes if you want to avoid muddy mixes. There’s no better way to cause muddiness than overload your mix with the low-mids. I know you want weight in your mixes but if you instinctually add low-mids your mix will suffer for it because the low-mids will immediately...
Serial and parallel processing are two powerful mixing techniques that can be used to help craft clear, detailed mixes. But they can be tricky to master if you’re not sure how they work. And it can be especially hard to know when to use which technique. In this blog, we’ll explain the difference between serial...
“Imagine” by John Lennon came out on this day, 49 years ago. Do you think he could’ve known where he was heading when he formed the Quarrymen in 1956? Do you think he could’ve imagined the impact his voice would’ve had on millions of people and generations of musicians when he was playing school dances...
I’m proud to re-open the doors to my special Audio Issues Insiders community this week. All the details on what you get and how you can join can be found here. If you want to fast-track your growth as a producer and mixing engineer and achieve more with your mixes in the next 90 days...
Happy Monday! Here’s what you can enjoy from me and the Audio Issues team this week. Distribute Your Music Through Amuse It’s so easy to distribute your music nowadays. And Amuse is one a service that makes it so easy — and free. Caleb Murphy released a single and a commentary album through Amuse. Here are...
Sometimes you can’t just keep boosting the low frequencies, especially when you’re working with stereo loops where you don’t have access to the kick or 808 independently. Try out this parallel trick where you low-pass filter everything and then add some artificial low-end with an RBass (or similar) plug-in. I got a bit heavy-handed with...
Nowadays, music is mainly distributed via online streaming services. Almost everybody listens to their music through iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or one of the many other online streaming services options there is on the market! This new reality brings us new challenges as we want to master our tracks. We now need to optimize our masterings...
It’s another month and it’s time for another free music production training. This time I’m going to share some secrets I’ve discovered by analyzing popular productions that you can use to strengthen your songwriting, arrangements, and productions in general. It’s called Your Music Production Masterplan and you can register for it here. There are two...
Songs like ‘All My Life’ from the Foo Fighters or ‘Uprising’ from Muse have one thing in common: An in your face vocal sound. How about getting those kick-ass vocals into your next production? Are you up for the ride? Then buckle up… because Kansas is going bye-bye! 1) Record a spot-on performance Mediocre performances...