Working with music, especially working with digital music and DAWs, is at least as much about visual stuff as it is about audible stuff. Slick design, cool interfaces, endless amounts of knobs, dark modes, dB meters, audio analyzers, layout, workflow. The list goes on. It’s easy to get too caught up in what’s going on...
Mastering is the final step in making your song sound professional. It increases the loudness, widens the sonic properties of the track, and highlights the beautiful sounds in your mix. Basically, it’s a very important stage. So can you trust automated mastering? Will it give you pro-level results? In this post, I’m going to compare...
You know that melody you’re writing that’s stuck in your head? It’s catchy, and your audience will love it. They will get it stuck in their heads and hum it all day long. But you want to take it to the next level. How can you mix it up without losing your original idea? Most...
It was such a huge issue that I was scared to act on it for four years. I thought, “producing an audiobook seems like a huge task, and I don’t have time to figure all that stuff out now.” All these roadblocks popped up every time the task crossed my stressed-out mind: “I don’t know...
One of the most important skills we have as humans is the ability to imitate others. As newborn babies, we learn to copy facial expressions from those around us. Then we learn to talk by looking and hearing at how others do it. And as we grow up further, we look at how others behave...
I’m really excited to announce that the audio version of my best-selling mixing book is now available as an audiobook! And even better, I’m giving it away for FREE to anybody who purchases the Step By Step Mixing digital bundle this week. Here’s what you’ll get: Step By Step Mixing: How to Create Great Mixes Using Only...
Have you ever heard the oxymoron: boundaries create freedom? Have you ever intentionally used arbitrary constraints as a sort of a creative game within a music production session? The modern music production environment offers a limitless universe of possibilities. Any sound can be made, manipulated, re-recorded, etc. While an infinite range of options might sound...
Any person could slap a microphone near an acoustic guitar, hit record, and capture an ok recording. If you’re one of these people, you’re limiting yourself and compromising the quality of your recordings. Check out these 5 simple mic techniques for capturing your acoustic guitar. These techniques will take your acoustic guitar recordings to the...
Many people who are thinking about becoming a music producer have this question: “Do I need to go to audio school?” It’s a good question and not a surprising one at all. When we think of getting into a field like sciences or accounting, there are schooling prerequisites that we need to get. But what...
Join us for a fun listening party this Friday, June 18th at 1 PM PDT where we’ll listen to an Audio Issues student album all the way through while discussing the production in the chat. Come join us live and ask any questions about the songs and how they were made as you’re listening to...