Let me tell you a story of my friend Rebecca. Rebecca De La Torre is a great engineer/producer and musician, in addition to being a dear friend of mine. She has a cool recording studio up in Tempe, Arizona and I even went on her Youtube show back in The Long Wait days: That’s me on the...
Last year, the big trend I noticed from subscribers such as yourself was mixing drums. So I created the Drum Mix Toolkit course to help you make punchy and tight drum sounds in your home studio. This year, most people have been talking about how much they need help getting clear, professional vocals. They’ve been telling...
Today I’m going to share one of the best techniques I know for figuring out where the instruments are clashing with the vocals. It’s one of my favorite tricks for making the vocals fit better in the mix, even if it’s a really busy mix with a lot of instruments. You’ll inevitably have this problem....
I’ve been taking Gordon Ramsay’s Masterclass on cooking this past week and been loving it. The passion this guy exudes about his craft is incredibly inspiring. The warmth, the passion and the exuberance he shows for cooking is a far cry from his TV persona: Throughout the class, he acts more like this guy: When...
This is a guest post by Ola Göransson. If you would like to contribute a guest post to Audio Issues, please read the guest post guidelines right here. Ssshh – don’t tell anyone… What if I told you there’s a secret trick to help you maximize punch and translation across systems? And it’s free – no...
This is an excerpt from Better Mixes in Less Time, which you can get here. A book that I highly recommend everyone should read is The One Thing, by Gary Keller. In it, Keller said: “When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who...
You know that pang of anxiety you get when you finish an album? The “is this loud AND dynamic enough to compete” feeling? I had that last week when we were finishing up a new EP. Luckily for me, I had a tool that told me I didn’t need to worry. It’s the Dynameter plug-in...
This is a guest post by Adi Szasz. If you would like to contribute a guest post to Audio Issues, please read the guest post guidelines right here. Regardless of the genre that you’re producing, the low-end is the “resting place” of the production. You can compare it to a heartbeat that gives color to the...
AJ writes grungy indie folk-rock songs in between his job as an arborist in southern Arizona. A laidback millennial hippie with a constant five o’clock scruff, he wears faded work t-shirts, flipflops and a trucker cap, his ginger manbun sticking out the back. Whenever he walks across the street to my studio, he brings a cup...
I hosted a 20-person workshop on mixing a song from start to finish yesterday at a local library. And I got an interesting question about keyboards and guitars. This person wanted to know where I would look in the frequency spectrum to make room in a mix that’s heavy in both rock guitars and keys....