You know that pang of anxiety you get when you finish an album? The “is this loud AND dynamic enough to compete” feeling? I had that last week when we were finishing up a new EP. Luckily for me, I had a tool that told me I didn’t need to worry. It’s the Dynameter plug-in...
Are you interested in learning sound system tuning, but don’t have the time or resources to attend an in-person seminar? Nathan Lively is here to help. You may remember him from some recent posts: 6 Soundcheck Tips on How to Get the Band to Play at the Right Level and How to Get Good Data...
This is a guest post by Adi Szasz. If you would like to contribute a guest post to Audio Issues, please read the guest post guidelines right here. Regardless of the genre that you’re producing, the low-end is the “resting place” of the production. You can compare it to a heartbeat that gives color to the...
This is a guest post by Gavin Whitner. If you would like to contribute a guest post to Audio Issues, please read the guest post guidelines right here. Let’s face it, choosing the best type of microphone for recording your vocals is no easy business. In fact, it’s got to a point where there are...
Contrary to what people might think, we don’t all live in igloos in Iceland. It’s only the really rich bankers we didn’t jail who can afford the maintenance costs. The rest of us in the middle class had to make do with our turf houses from the Viking era. Igloos are annoying honestly. They’re really...
Celebrities have it real rough in Iceland. Why? Because you can’t just name your baby whatever you want. There’s a FINITE list of first names you can be named, and there’s even a naming committee that’s responsible for approving and rejecting the new batch of names that come in every year. This is a tax-payer funded...
This past Wednesday I tore a hole in my comfort zone and squeezed through it. It was like Jack Nicholson “Heeeeere’s Johnny!” mixed with the unimaginable pain of giving birth to bowling ball. I stood on stage in front of a room full of strangers and performed standup comedy for the very first time. It...
AJ writes grungy indie folk-rock songs in between his job as an arborist in southern Arizona. A laidback millennial hippie with a constant five o’clock scruff, he wears faded work t-shirts, flipflops and a trucker cap, his ginger manbun sticking out the back. Whenever he walks across the street to my studio, he brings a cup...
I hosted a 20-person workshop on mixing a song from start to finish yesterday at a local library. And I got an interesting question about keyboards and guitars. This person wanted to know where I would look in the frequency spectrum to make room in a mix that’s heavy in both rock guitars and keys....
I used to hate sushi. Cold, raw fish wrapped in seaweed and rice. Dipped into a black sauce with spicy green paste. Gross. This was really driving a wedge between me and my wife because she LOVES sushi. I can just see us screaming at each other in front of a couple’s counselor: “You said...