I made brownies. The recipe said to cook for 22 – 25 minutes. A minute can make a big difference, but I started with 22 minutes to get a reference point. They were delicious, naturally. The next week I made brownies again. We discovered that making thin brownies makes them better so we craved them...
I taught a Music Accelerator to about 25 students this week as a part of the TENWEST Impact Festival. I am very grateful for the opportunity to share my experience and story to help musicians make a bigger impact with their music career. One of the big take-aways the attendees told me was my “Good...
One of my favorite plug-ins lately has been the Scheps Omni channel strip from Waves. As you know if you’ve followed me for a while, I think you can make great mixes if you only know how to use five plug-ins: EQ Compression Reverb Delay Saturation The Scheps Omni Channel has three of them, which...
Got this comment from an Insiders member this weekend: I’ve had several “ah-ha” moments since becoming a member of Audio Issues Insiders. This week’s Feedback Friday may have provided the biggest one yet. I always struggle to get my guitars and vocals to fit together. The idea of placing an EQ cut between 900 and...
If you’re just joining us, we’re celebrating the grand opening of the new Audio Issues Insiders community, where you learn the skills to make radio-ready mixes and the encouraging support to proudly release them. Here’s what Nic Hamilton, an Insider had to say about his early experience yesterday: “Greatly enjoying discussing mixing et all with...
If you’re wondering what you’ll learn from the mix walkthroughs inside Audio Issues Insiders, here’s a sneak peek: Currently, we have three different genres available, with new multi-tracks, mix walkthroughs and masterclasses added every month. Here’s what I cover in the three mix walkthrough videos: Alt Rock – The Primary – 100 Miles an Hour...
Today is a great day, even though it’s Monday. Why? Because I’m opening the doors to my brand new community, Audio Issues Insiders. Audio Issues Insiders is an online community and ever-growing library of mixing masterclasses and online resources to help you create professional mixes you can be proud to release into the world. Here’s...
The traditional way of using reference tracks to improve your mixes has been to import high-quality WAVs into your DAW. I would rip them from CDs using iTunes and then simply move them into a channel at the end of my session. However, like the rest of humanity, I don’t buy CDs anymore. Instead, I...
One of the final steps of getting mixes to translate to other speaker systems is the finalization process when you’re mastering. You can take pretty broad strokes while you’re mixing and make some drastic mix moves to make your mix explode from your studio speakers. But, getting those crazy mix moves to translate may mean...
A quick early translation trick I’ve been doing lately has been helping me control the low-end from the start. Because I always get a rough mix going on a one-driver mix cube, there’s not a lot of low-end bass response going on during that whole process. But because I also have a secondary monitoring system...