One of the biggest problems I hear from the students mixing the hard rock multi-track included in the Mixing Hard Rock With 5 Plug-ins Masterclass is the drum sound. Making powerful and punchy drums is a big challenge, but there’s one thing that can always make your drums hit harder. Parallel Compression. I have a...
One of the things I absolutely despise is figuring out what you want to watch on Netflix these days. There are just so many $%”% options that you end up sifting through pages upon pages of movies, tv shows, and documentaries for over half an hour. And before you know it, your soup is cold,...
Yesterday I talked a little bit about translation and using different speakers to hear how your mix sounds across the board. I linked to the video but some of you couldn’t watch it because you weren’t members of the Facebook group. Make sure you request to join the group and then watch the video once...
A great guitar sound is crucial for making a rock song sound huge. Turns out, making it big during tracking goes A LONG WAY. We’re in the middle of recording a punk rock EP and last time we got an excellent guitar sound after we experimented a bit during the tracking phase. Here’s what we did:...
I’m proud to promote one of the cooler courses I’ve come across in recent years, Hardcore Tracking by Jordan Valeriote. It helps you become a master not only of your recording gear but also the instruments themselves so that you can always start with the best source possible. If you watched the free workshop in...
If you record harder music like rock, hardcore, punk or metal you might like this free video series Jordan Valeriote is giving people this week. It’s called Hardcore Tracking and it’s a free video series on recording hard rock music. I watched the three videos this week and I am SUPER IMPRESSED. It’s like he’s...
Hey guys, It’s me, Joey. I’m Björgvin’s fictional engineer he likes to put silly captions to. Like this one: I allow it because it’s lonely to be stuck in a folder on his hard drive. It’s so much more fun to be posted on Facebook where I can annoy the trolls and haters with their...
A REALLY common problem when you’re mixing drums is trying to get rid of the annoying resonances and ringing sounds in your snare drum. Sometimes there’s just a frequency that’s so overbearing that it destroys the rest of the drum sound. If that’s ever happened to you let me show you how I fix it....
Over 130 home studio musicians have already jumped on the introductory discount offer of the Drum Mix Toolkit. I just want to say THANK YOU to you all! If you haven’t, you might still be wondering how the Drum Mix Toolkit will take your drum sounds from mediocre to amazing? I’ve been answering your...
As far as the tools you have to shape the style of your drum sound, in multiple directions. It can take it from a punchy garage sound if you add a short room reverb, to a big arena rock song if you choose a hall. And if you just want some space for ambiance without...