As an exclusive preview to Mixing With 5 Plug-ins I thought I’d skip to the end and give you one of the most valuable lesson in the course. It’s all about listening to your mix on different speaker systems, jotting down what needs to be fixed and then going back to the mixing board for...
One of my favorite parts of Mixing With 5 Plug-ins is the engagement in the Facebook community. It’s very exciting to see people’s progress through the course and hearing how they improve and interact. Here are just some examples of what’s been going on in the last five weeks. If you want to be a...
As far as mixing processors go, compression is the second in command after EQ as far as I’m concerned. EQ is simpler, and as we went over in yesterday’s post, a concrete approach and method to EQ’ing usually gives you some pretty good results. However, compression is a bit more complex but it’s also more...
You’ll like this handy EQ tip method I came up with the other day. I used it on an electric keyboard track but the theory can be used for numerous tracks. The goal is to filter out the lows, taming the muddiness and boxiness while adding slight masking via boosting to bring out some of...
This week’s production tip over at The Long Wait’s Youtube channel is about rough mixing during the recording process. Because I do most of the work myself I’m constantly changing the session around, moving the levels around and tweaking stuff to suit what I’m doing that day. So the levels are usually all over the...
Today’s music is all about accuracy. So much so that you’re expected to edit everything perfectly to the grid, even though it sucks the life right out of the performance. Well, what if I told you there’s another way to achieve the same accuracy without destroying the human feel? Performance is King Of course, having...
I posted this video on The Long Wait channel yesterday but I bet it’s very interesting to you as well. It’s about how we recorded all the acoustic guitar on our upcoming album. Check it out here: In case you’re too lazy to watch the video to the end, here are the three key take-aways:...
In one of my new videos that are included in the Steps to a Professional Vocal Sound” One of the steps is thickening up the vocal with delay. Not to be used as an effect. It’s just to make that vocal thicker without sounding like it’s doubled. My favorite is using a stereo delay with...
Last Thursday I told you how sick I am of being told that you should use Yeah, yeah. You should. But sometimes you can’t. Sometimes you want to crank up the gain on your EQ. So if that’s the case, here are some places to boost in your mixes. 1. Boost your kick drum in...
I’m working with a very small group of people inside a group community called “Mixing With 5 Plug-ins.” The first assignment I gave them was to take 30 minutes to get a rough balance on their multi-tracks. At MOST 30 minutes to get a rough mix going with volume faders and pans. And I gave...