Got into a bit of back and forth with a subscriber the other day. He didn’t like the fact that I was telling you that you could mix with stock plug-ins like you learn inside Quick Mixing With Stock Plug-ins that’s on sale for 50% off until tomorrow. He told me, “Can I stop you…”...
***Make sure you read this email to the very end if you want to learn how to mix in less than two hours*** If you’ve ever seen a professional mixing engineer work on a song, it can look chaotic. Jumping from one thing to another, tweaking random knobs and all of a sudden the mix...
If you’re reading this, you’re one of two things: You love mixing so much you can’t get enough about talking about it (like me). You want to love mixing but you’re still trying to figure it out. Out of everything we do as audio engineers, mixing is my favorite. It’s where we get to take all...
Trolls would lose their shit over this picture. I love it. That’s Finneas O’Connell, Billie Eilish’s brother in his bedroom studio. I can hear the trolls frantically typing, foaming at the mouth: “But! THE MONITOR PLACEMENT! Arrghghghgh!” “No acoustic treatment in the EARLY REFLECTION zones?!!?” (proceeds to hyperventilate into his Kiss lunchbox) “He’s using Logic?!?...
Yesterday was a huge win for small home recording studios as Billie Eilish took home four Grammys and Finneas got an extra one for Producer of the Year. So if you were afraid that you needed expensive equipment and a high-end studio to make professional hit records, you can safely throw those thoughts out the...
A reader writes in with a question about vocals: “I love the warmth of low–mid sounds, yet I hate the way that it affects my vocals. I can’t seem to figure out how to reach a happy medium, even when carving out between 250-500hz on my vocals.” If you’re running into the same issues, here are some ways to add...
This weekend is NAMM and I’m taking in the craziness. I’ve gone to NAMM for the past ten years and it’s become less of a place to see new stuff, and more just a place where many of my friends are conveniently located in one place so that we can have a good time. A tagline...
I’m sitting at the airport waiting for my flight to the yearly NAMM show in Anaheim. It’s always fun to take in all the new gear, and more importantly all the great panels and educational opportunities they offer. I just know there’s going to be a smorgasbord of new stuff in the form of plug-ins,...
Here’s a quick low-end you can use to tame the low-end of your drum bus in your next mix. This month I’m remixing one of my Christmas songs for the Audio Issues Insiders members. I’m running a mix contest for the members with some fun prizes but most of the fun is simply listening to...
If you’ve ever felt discouraged by your muddy mixes and wish you could feel proud of your released records, let me share a story of how terrible my first songs sounded… Back in high school, my band recorded an album that may go down in history as my favorite worst-sounding album. I didn’t know anything...