One of my least favorite Superman villains is Bizarro. He’s exhausting to understand and he’s not motivated by anything you can relate to. That said…I did dress up as Bizarro Clark Kent one year for Halloween… Overall Bizarro’s pretty lame…but his opposite-ness to Superman made me remember my Reverse-EQ method, which I’ll be calling the...
There are five stages to a professional sounding vocal. It’s not all about the microphone or your gear. Or even your acoustic treatment. It’s not even only about your singer. Unfortunately, even a bad singer can be…*gulp*…”fixed.” But there’s no autotune for a poor vocal melody or arrangement. There’s no Auto-Make-My-Songwriting-Better plug-in. Five Stage Vocal...
Mornin’ mon frére, Yesterday, Audio Issues contributor Ed Elefterion talked about writing memorable melodies as the starting point of crafting a catchy song. Today, I wanted to jump ahead and start thinking about all the best strategies for making sure that melody transforms into a production that blows people away. The vocals are the most...
It’s Monday and you know what that means? It’s the newest installment in the One Man Production Machine series by Ed Elefterion. If you missed the previous posts, check them out below: One Man Production Machine Introduction OMPM Part 2 – Capture the Audience With Your Songwriting OMPM Part 3 – How to Write Lyrics...
We talk a lot about how to start a mix, or how to get a rough mix going, but we don’t share as much about how you know when your mix is finished. Let’s talk about how you can be confident about finishing your mixes so you can be proud to release your music to...
Money. It’s one of the biggest obstacles for indie musicians. There’s not enough of it. And you need it to do things, like record music. But recording equipment can tend to be expensive, especially for DIYers. So here are four ways to save money on recording equipment. Scour Thrift Stores Hey, don’t write this one off....
Got this email from Ben, about mix bus processing. “Hello ever since I bought Step By Step Mixing…and EQ Strategies my mixes have dramatically changed to better, but I have a question, which is concerning the mixbus and master channel. I use EQ, compression and saturation on my mix bus before mixing as I learnt...
Welcome to the third part of the One Man Production Machine series by Ed Elefterion. If you missed the previous installments, check them out below: One Man Production Machine Introduction OMPM Part 2 – Capture the Audience With Your Songwriting When I have words in front of me, things come quicker, and I don’t struggle...
A good sample to a music producer is like candy to a kid. It’s tasty and it gives you a headrush. A sample with great potential changes everything. It can become the hook to a song. Some would argue that a great producer can take a mediocre sample and make it great, make it their...
I think my dog Buckley knows my mix workflow better than myself. Especially when I’m finishing up a mix. He’ll be lying on the rug in the back of the studio as I’m doing my rough mix on the mix cube. I’ll be mixing the tracks like I show you inside Mixing With 5 Plug-ins,...