This week for Audio Issues Happy Hour I’ll be doing a special training on creating your mix template. I’ll be going live on Facebook and Youtube with this special training where I walk you through my always-improving mix template, showing you: How I route my instruments and exactly how I use busses and groups to...
Apple decided all songs would cost 99 cents. Then Spotify decided the value of someone listening to a song once was worth fractions of a penny. Is that happening to the music licensing world? Are the big companies devaluing the use of your songs in visual media? Let’s explore that idea and look at what...
Sometimes one mic just won’t cut it. Every now and then you need the sonic depth that only stereo can provide. But with so many different stereo miking techniques to choose from, it can be difficult to know which one is right for your specific situation. In this blog, you’ll learn about some of the...
If you haven’t joined us for an episode of Influences and References, then you’re missing out. Here’s what a recent viewer emailed us: “Wow! Every topic hit home and shoved me back into my creative zone. Been feeling overwhelmed with learning the technology while letting the artsy side slide away into the gloom. Many thanks...
Imagine a place where people actually listen to your music. Do you know where that place isn’t? On crowded forums and Facebook groups where people spam the group with Soundcloud links to low-quality music-in-progress. It’s the internet equivalent of producers walking up to me on Venice Beach asking me to check out their mixtape? Like…did...
If you want to make your bass cut through on small speakers, this week’s video will let you in on a little secret. If you use a parallel bass track, with some EQ and saturation, it’ll add that extra dimension in the high-mids that helps your bass get heard when you play it on standard...
Tonight we’ll be going live with Lij Shaw of Recording Studio Rockstars to talk about vocal production and the step by step mixing process he learned from Grammy award-winning mixing engineer Craig Alvin (Kacey Musgraves, Vanessa Carlton, Little Big Town, Hanson). Yes, that Hanson. Fun fact: Craig mixed Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves and many...
Roger is the “audio guy” in his band. There’s always one. He told me that he hadn’t mixed all that much before. He’d only done rough mixes for his band but they were always lacking clarity, punch, and separation. Maybe the mixes were good enough to create demos for the band to listen to, but...
I can hardly believe it…I crunched some numbers this morning and… Step By Step Mixing has sold over 11,000 copies – half of those copies on Amazon alone! If you’re a proud owner of a copy, I’d love to hear from you. Here’s how you can share your experience and spread the word: Leave a...
I’m guessing you’re a self-starter. You must be — you’re reading a blog post about how to mix music. That’s how I am too. And when I set out to learn mixing techniques in April 2017, I went straight to YouTube. There were some super helpful videos and some not-so-helpful videos. So I want to...