I’ve started a new thing with my band The Long Wait. We’re aiming to release one song about every 6 weeks or so and through it all I try to document as much of the process as possible. Unfortunately the idea struck AFTER we recorded the drums so there’s no video of our living room...
I just published a new video in the weekly video content inside the Playground Premium area(http://playground.crowdaudio.com). It’s all about getting my drums to sound like this: Your browser does not support the audio tag. If you don’t want to join, no problem, I’ll still tell you my biggest mistakes when it came to that drum...
I got a question from Howie West regarding last week’s post on using a reference mix. You’ve mentioned ‘reference mix’ before. What exactly is a reference mix? and how do you get, find or choose one? What is a Reference Mix? A reference mix is a commercial quality mix that’s usually been mixed and released in the...
I got a question from Howie West regarding last week’s post on using a reference mix. You’ve mentioned ‘reference mix’ before. What exactly is a reference mix? and how do you get, find or choose one? What is a Reference Mix? A reference mix is a commercial quality mix that’s usually been mixed and released in the...
I’m working on this month’s Crowd Audio Playground mix, Everybody’s Falling Apart. It’s fun Brit-style rock, kind of like The Klaxons. I’ve been documenting my mix carefully, bouncing a version every step of the way: Only levels and panning Submixes only Completed mix Final mix/master with automation It’s my intention to go through that over at...
I had the unfortunate experience of my interface dying on me the other day. I had a really nice Apogee Duet which now functions as a really nice paperweight for all the papers I don’t have… So I used the “opportunity” and went hunting for a new interface. I was wanting something different anyway so it was...
In the next few weeks I’ll be publishing snippets of an interview I did with producer/engineer/composer Steven Lee Tracy of Saint Cecilia Studio. Steven has a great commercial facility in the heart of downtown Tucson and he sat down with me on a few occasions to talk about recording and production. We predominantly focused on...
What I’m going to give you today is one of the first music production analysis I did when I started working on Music Production Strategies. I never really found a good place for it in the course so I thought I’d give it away as as a standalone analysis so you can get a better...
While I was creating Music Production Strategies, one of the songs you readers suggested was Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer. I think it’s an awesome song. It’s filled with interesting production elements that I really liked analyzing. But in the time since I wrote it Peter Gabriel took a stance against Spotify so now his music is...
You might be confused about what exactly you’ll get out of taking the Music Production Strategies course. And I understand. It’s not as technical and straightforward as learning to EQ a kick drum or compress a vocal. The technical engineering aspects are a little simpler to grasp. Because music, man music is made in so...