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...
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...
I was on a podcast last week with my buddy Lij Shaw. He’s starting a new podcast called Recording Studio Rockstars that will launch in a couple months and I was lucky enough to be invited on. One of the questions he asked me was: Can you share an inspirational quote for making music, recording,...
There’s a common fear called low-mid-phobia. I bet you’re familiar with it. It’s this thing where you cut way too much low-mids from your mix because you’re terrified of muddying up your mix. It happened to me very recently. I was working on The Long Wait’s newest single (video below), and the first “final” mix I...
Let me tell you a story. There was a young couple who lived together. The wife used to cook a big roast on Sundays but she always cut the meat in half before putting it in the oven. When the husband asked her why she always put two pieces in the oven instead of just...
As you might already know, I recently bought a house. When we were looking for houses one of the biggest criteria I looked for was a space I could use as a studio. My new home includes a renovated studio apartment with its own entrance that’s big enough to be a mixing room/overdub room and...
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...
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...