If you’re looking to improve your drum mixes, let me give you three quick tips to try out over the weekend. As you may already know, I’m offering an easy payment plan for my Drum Mix Toolkit and Expert Home Vocals courses until tomorrow so make sure you take advantage of that before it’s too...
Home recorded drums don’t have to sound like amateur recordings. Those aren’t synonyms. Even if you record drums in your home studio, you can still drastically change the feel of a space by using artificial reverb, for instance. So even if your home studio is tiny, your drums don’t have to be. Add a good...
If you’re struggling to separate your instruments in the mix, this question will be interesting to you: Vessel writes in: “My biggest issue with EQ is separating my instruments effectively. Often, I find that when I remove certain frequencies from one instrument to make room for another, my track starts to sound too thin. “...
I’m flying from Tucson to Iceland today and boy are my hands clean! Don’t get me wrong, I’m a pretty clean and healthy guy, but I don’t think I’ve ever been so careful about washing my hands. Get this: I’m flying home to Iceland because it’s my sister’s wedding and I’m playing at her wedding,...
Do you constantly create new ideas but never finish anything? Have you always been attracted to make music, but never made the plunge? Are you constantly confronted with writer’s block? If any of these questions resonate with you, I’d like to show you how combining your music production with the principles of Alchemy can help...
Have you ever watched a sound engineer behind the board? Flailing arms like an orchestral conductor and eyes like a mad scientist. Honestly, it is an awesome sight to see. However, not all of us are able to pay the big bucks to have a professional engineer record, edit and mix our tracks. A large...
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?!?...