If you’re just joining us in our Yuletide tale, check out the previous stories of the Yulelads playing tricks on your tracks right here. Today we have Bowl-Licker scurrying down the mountain to make a mess of your music productions. As you would expect, his schtick is to sneak into your house and lick all...
You’ve been working on your mixes long into the night when a sudden noise breaks your concentration. *Slam!* What was that? You hit the spacebar and the looped snare drum stops in its tracks. *Slam!!!* The sound reverberates throughout your home studio. The ringing flutter of your untreated room echoes in your ears and you...
Shivering down the mountain today is Pot Scraper, the fifth Yuletide Trickster to wreak havoc with your home studio mixes. As you would expect from his name, he loves to steal leftovers from pots because he’s constantly cold and searching for some semblance of warmth. He sneaks into your studio and with shivering hands finds...
Keep your low-end under surveillance today because Spoon Licker is the fourth Yulelad to come down from the mountain to play tricks on your tracks. He’s an abnormally thin and malnourished lad. Because of that, he’s set his sights on the low-end of your mixes to make you feel just how awful it is to...
As you snore away, dreaming of perfectly dynamic mixes with just the right amount of compression, the third Yuletide Trickster makes his way to your studio. Stubby, or Stúfur as his brothers call him, is the third brother to come down from the mountain. He’s a tiny little twat with a huge inferiority complex and...
If you’re looking for great vocal productions from your home studio, today’s Yuletide gift might be a good one. Giljagaur or Gully-Gawk is the second Yuletide Trickster to terrify the home studios this year. He’s been known to hide in gullies, waiting for an opportunity to steal milk, but there’s not a single cow to...
Welcome to Day 1 of our Yuletide Trickery series. As you fall fast asleep to your thoughts of improving your drum sound, you’re blissfully unaware of the treachery that’s about to befall you. The first Yule Lad to wreak havoc on your home studio is Stekkjarstaur or Sheep-Cote Clod. Stekkjarstaur used to have a fondness...
In the spirit of Yuletide, let me tell you a tale: In the Icelandic highlands, there lives a family of 15, plus a cat. The cat is a hellish black beast that eats children if they don’t get new clothes for the holidays. So in Iceland, there’s a good incentive for upward social mobility because...
As a home studio owner, I’m continually trying to find “that sound”—the lively yet polished character of my favorite records straight from the hands of the best mix engineers in the world. Through years of learning and practicing professional audio recording, one thing is certain: the better you can capture a quality sound at the...
I’ve got a mission for you, should you choose to accept it… I’m only four reviews away from 100 reviews for Step By Step Mixing on the U.S. Amazon site and I’m hoping you can help me break 100? If you’ve already read the book, please head on over here to leave a review. If...