Last year, the big trend I noticed from subscribers such as yourself was mixing drums. So I created the Drum Mix Toolkit course to help you make punchy and tight drum sounds in your home studio. This year, most people have been talking about how much they need help getting clear, professional vocals. They’ve been telling...
There are five stages to recording 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...
Below you’ll find an in-depth excerpt from my upcoming course, Expert Home Vocals. Many of you have shared your stories with me about how hard it is to get a good performance from your singer, especially if they are insecure or anxious about performing. So it’s my hope that this preview of Expert Home Vocals...
EQ is an incredibly valuable tool to take your mixes to the next level during mastering. Even if you’ve created a spectacular mix, adding a few EQ tweaks here and there to the whole track can often clean up the low end, reduce muddiness and add that professional brightness you thought your mix was lacking....
Today I’m going to share one of the best techniques I know for figuring out where the instruments are clashing with the vocals. It’s one of my favorite tricks for making the vocals fit better in the mix, even if it’s a really busy mix with a lot of instruments. You’ll inevitably have this problem....
I’ve been taking Gordon Ramsay’s Masterclass on cooking this past week and been loving it. The passion this guy exudes about his craft is incredibly inspiring. The warmth, the passion and the exuberance he shows for cooking is a far cry from his TV persona: Throughout the class, he acts more like this guy: When...
My least favorite thing to do is recommend gear to aspiring home studio musicians. I’d like my website to stay relevant for more than a week and recommending specific brands or models will make it outdated faster than you can find a troll on Gearslutz. If you’re a Gearslutz moderator, I apologize in advance to...
This weekend I spent most of Sunday morning struggling to fix the soft top on my 1998 Saab 93. I have it on permanent loan from people who live in town about two weeks of the year, so it’s a pretty sweet extra ride to have. I’m way too practical to buy a convertible, so...
This is a guest post by Ola Göransson. If you would like to contribute a guest post to Audio Issues, please read the guest post guidelines right here. Ssshh – don’t tell anyone… What if I told you there’s a secret trick to help you maximize punch and translation across systems? And it’s free – no...
This is an excerpt from Better Mixes in Less Time, which you can get as a free bonus with Step By Step Mixing. A book that I highly recommend everyone should read is The One Thing, by Gary Keller. In it, Keller said: “When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned...