When I exited the airplane it dawned on me. I couldn’t understand a single sign. Wherever I looked, my brain short-circuited and couldn’t put meaning to the messages I was seeing. For someone who’s been to over 15 countries, this feeling of complete lack of understanding was…foreign to me…no pun intended. I could usually get...
This week we’ve been talking about productivity and how to be a more efficient mixing engineer. Today I’m ecstatic to announce that my latest Amazon eBook, Better Mixes in Less Time, is finally available. Tons of home studio musicians and engineers already got their copy pre-ordered and I want to personally thank those of you...
Do you ever feel scattered and spread thin with too many projects? Or feel like you have so many things you should be doing that you can’t decide which one to focus on? And because of that, you spend more time trying to decide between projects instead of actually working on them. All your productive...
I’m in Japan over the long Thanksgiving holiday so I thought I’d make you some haikus to remind you of the Black Friday/Cyper Monday deals that are still going on. Most of these deals end today so you must act now if you want to get these discounts. – If mix breakthrough is needed Get...
If you constantly get frustrated by the invisible barrier between your mix and that extra 10% the pro mixes have, then you might be due for a mixing breakthrough. Let’s punch through that glass and make your mixes explode through the speakers just like those commercial mixes you love so much. So…as a part of...
Happy Wednesday! It’s Thanksgiving week here in the U.S.A and to celebrate I decided to jump on a plane and head to Japan to completely bypass this whole turkey business. In fact, I’m planning on being very Zen here in Kyoto today instead. If you’re looking for some Zen calm and mastery over your drum...
Every few minutes my computer came to a screeching halt. The playback would stop and my audio software would pop up a message. Turns out my 7-year-old Macbook Pro couldn’t handle all the processing I was applying to the tracks in my mix. After an hour of starting, stopping, starting, stopping, starting, stopping, the snarling impatience inside...
Audio analyzers are dumb. They just deliver data. Our job is to interpret that data from Smaart or SATlive or SIM3 (well, if you’re reading this…you probably don’t own a $10,000 SIM3). But we can’t do that if the data is bad. Here is a collection of my best tips on getting good data with...
The Drum Mix Toolkit is 40% off until tomorrow because of my early Black Friday sale. I wanted to use this opportunity to give the top ten most important things you’ll learn from the Drum Mix Toolkit. If you already know all of these things, cool. You might not need the Toolkit. But if you...
I have this running joke whenever I’m invited to a potluck-style party. Especially when said party is at my house. I should explain…we get asked to host parties for our friends all the time because our house is nice and open. Because it’s perfect for large groups of people, the parties aren’t always our idea....