I got an email from a subscriber the other day. I won’t mention him by name for obvious reasons but here’s what he had to say: I got lucky finding by chance (c’mon …such a liar I am) the Waves mercury bundle on…The temptation and my no-$ situation was to hard to resist. But I...
Although I’m not from the U.S. it’s been my home for the last 6 years. I love it here. I’ve been able to enjoy some things that I never would’ve had back home in my native Iceland and for that I am grateful. (Yeah yea…I hear you. There’s plenty of stuff the US government can...
Mixing is a reactionary process. Although I have somewhat of a system it’s all still dependent on reacting to the tracks in the song. The song inside Quick Mixing is no different but in the sneak preview of the intro below I tell you a little bit about the methods that I try to stick...
Today I’m proud to announce my new tutorial, Quick Mixing With Stock Plug-ins. It’s a two hour journey you take with me as we mix one song in two hours. Every 10 minutes my timer will go off and I tell you exactly what I am trying to accomplish in the mix. Whether that’s EQ’ing the...
I know it’s not great to mix with your eyes. But sometimes you have to. In a mix I did this week I wanted to get a Every time a loud track popped out I scrambled around the mixer trying to find it. So I decided to do something different that I hadn’t done before:...
Compression is funny in how it affects the frequency spectrum. Maybe this is a placebo but I was working with the CLA vocals plug-in the other day and since it doesn’t really tell you exactly what it’s doing you’re forced to listen to whatever is happening to your tracks. Crazy right? #sarcasm Some of the...
Got this question from Joel, a subscriber, about creating space in a mix: Hello, thanks for helping out in audio issues it’s really encouraging. Just have a question, after sweeping & removing unwanted frequencies how do I create sonic space in my live concert mix or studio mix between instruments, vocals/lead vocals, vocals & instrument...
Mixing is probably the most fun out of all the things we do as audio engineers. It’s where we get to take all these recorded tracks and make them sound awesome. But….sometimes you might get a little overwhelmed when you’ve gone overboard during the recording process. There’s nothing you can do about that though. The...
I’ve been doing a little mastering lately and a thought occurred to me that you should know. It’s about the subtlety of mastering, and why it’s actually not so subtle at all! The 1 dB Boost and Cut We stress the importance of doing subtle boosts and cuts during mastering but if you really think about...
It’s day 3 of our kick drum and bass guitar series: 3 Ways to Separate the Bass Guitar and the Kick Drum Part I and II can be found here: 3 Ways to Separate the Bass Guitar and the Kick Drum [Part 1] Decide Where the Kick and Bass Sit in the Frequency Spectrum [Part Deux]...