The arrangement is probably the most critical element of any piece of music ever created. It is the process of transforming individual musical components into one complete, smooth-sounding track, but it is always the last hurdle where a lot of artists fall flat, making excuses and avoiding it for as long as possible. Here are...
If you’re a musician who works on your own songs or helps other bands in the studio, then you’re gonna like today’s message. If you’re worried your songs aren’t good enough and you want to make sure you’re confident in knowing that your songs are the best they can be, you have to make sure you...
Here’s a cool vocal mixing trick for when you want a lot of space around the vocal, but you don’t want to clutter everything up with reverb. Step 1 – Mix the Dry Vocal Make the dry vocal sound as good as you can with: Analog emulation or tape saturation EQ Compression Step 2 –...
I’ve got a great story today that I REALLY hope you can learn from. If you can’t use this strategy exactly because your country or state doesn’t have these “loopholes” then I hope I’ve at least taught you to think outside the box to reach something you previously thought was impossible. Here’s the story: I...
Welcome to part 1 of a brand new series of 10 One Minute EQ Tricks. I’ll be sending out new ones every week for the next 10 weeks ranging from using EQ on guitars, drums, reverbs and a bunch of other things. And the best part? You only need a minute to watch them to...
Today is the last day to grab your copy of the Music Production Strategies series before the cart closes. What I’m going to give you today is one of the first music production analysis I did when I started working on the course. I never really found a good place for it in the course so I thought...
Producing is so different depending on who’s doing it. There are so many things involved: arrangement, instrumentation and pre-production. For instance, even before you decide to record anything, songs can come from many different directions. A guitar riff and a drum groove can be a basis for a song. A chord structure and a melody can become...
Producing is so different depending on who’s doing it. There are so many things involved: arrangement, instrumentation and pre-production. For instance, even before you decide to record anything, songs can come from many different directions. A guitar riff and a drum groove can be a basis for a song. A chord structure and a melody can become...
=====Special Announcement at the End of this Post. Scroll to the bottom if you can’t wait!===== A lot of your songs might start off pretty bad. I mean, maybe even as bad as a tired vocal and an out of tune guitar. Even if you had a great acoustic/vocal demo that’s only the beginning of...