I want to share with you my two songwriting techniques to assist you with your songwriting process and keep you in your creative flow. Whether you’re just starting as a songwriter or have been writing for years, these two little techniques can save you time and prevent you from breaking out of your flow when...
What if Otis Redding had been lynched like Emmett Till? Does it not make your soul go cold, Robert Johnson being pulled over before the crossroads? What if Muddy Waters was shot? By another poorly trained hot-head cop. “Muddy was just jogging ’round the hood,” his neighbors had seen him a million times before. Does...
Headphones can be a powerful tool for mixing and mastering. They eliminate many of the issues caused by untreated mixing rooms, such as frequency buildups and harsh reflections. They make it easy to clearly hear all the details of your mix. They’re compact and portable, so you can take them anywhere. And best of all,...
If you’re using Dropbox, WeTransfer or any other similar service to send mixes to your clients or colleagues – stop. There’s a better option and it’s designed exclusively for audio people like us. It’s called Filepass and it was created by Brian Hood of the Six Figure Home Studio. Brian and I have been friends...
What if you could stop worrying about whether your mixes were any good…and start proudly releasing professional-sounding records…every time you sat down to create a song? That’s exactly what I promise to help you achieve when you become an Insider. But…it’s not for everyone. Insiders is NOT for you if: You have a fixed scarcity...
We’re going live at 2 PM today for Influences & References, the podcast that talks about music production, mixing and the creative process (among a whole host of other unrelated things that come to mind). Join us on Facebook or Youtube at 2 PM PT. Ed is not only a regular Audio Issues contributor, but...
This week I’m proud to take in new Insiders members to our awesome community of musicians, engineers, and producers. If you don’t know what you get as an Insider, check out the details here. I understand that there’s a LOT of content inside the membership. You may not know where to start and it’s easy...
You might be stuck at home. Or you may prefer to work in your own space. Whatever the case, you can still work with other musicians. Thanks to the internet and people who make useful internet tools, recording music remotely has never been easier. Here’s how to collaborate with and hire other musicians, regardless of...
If you’re anything like my students, your music and productions are in one of these three stages: Stage 1 – The Zombie Stage You can find your way around your DAW and enjoy tinkering with your plug-ins, but you’re more like a mad scientist than a musician. You use your studio like an illegal lab...
If you’d like to dive into an in-depth Q&A session on the mixing process, I recently took my regular Live Happy Hour sessions over to my friend’s Youtube channel. Chris Selim is a French-Canadian music producer and he runs the popular channel Mixdown Online. Watch our conversation below for a boatload of info on mixing,...