If you’re anything like my 1-on-1 mix coaching students, your mixes are already pretty decent. You understand how to create a rough balance, add some separation between the instruments with EQ, add punch and dynamics with compression and create depth with effects. Even so, with the basics of mixing down, you might feel like your...
Now that we’re looking down the barrel of the rollercoaster of an international trade-war, I wanted to make a statement from the Icelandic Embassy of Audio Issues. Ahem…*clears throat* — Begin Statement — “I, Björgvin Benediktsson, rightful ruler of the dominion of Audio Issues, a descendant of the Vikings, eternal student of audio education and...
Hey there, Hope you’re having a good day so far. I wanted to let you know that the Jedi Mentor of Mastering, Ian Shepherd, is at it again and he just came out with a brand new course about everything you need to know about compression and limiting when you’re mastering in the home studio....
I have a strained relationship with fashion. It’s like that relative that lives just a little bit too far outside of town. You like the idea of hanging out, but the act of driving all the way out there is just too much of a hassle. I can say the same thing about shopping for...
As far as successful careers go, Paul Thomas Anderson has one in the bag. He’s a respected filmmaker who’s directed academy-award winning movies. That’s the upper echelon of success as far as creatives go. But when I heard him being called a “solid three-star guy” on a podcast, it made me think about what such...
I’m proud to introduce the first animated cartoon from Audio Issues, talking about the mythical Step By Step Mixing System 1,000: Of course, the Step By Step Mixing System blender only exists in the video, but I can offer you something even better, the best-selling mixing book, Step By Step Mixing: How to Create...
One of my favorite lines from the new Avengers movie, Infinity War, is when my god Thor is talking to the Guardians of the Galaxy. In fact, the whole scene where they’re interacting with each other on the spaceship is fucking hilarious, but this one line really made me laugh. On the spaceship, they’re talking...
You might have heard the advice that it’s always a good idea to check your mix against a reference mix. But what does that mean? What kind of reference mix? How do you go about doing that? What is a Reference Mix? A reference mix is a commercial quality mix that’s usually been mixed and released...
Tourists are so hot for Iceland right now it’s exhausting. Whenever somebody excitedly tells me they’re going, I tell them, Don’t. It’s overpriced and full of tourists. It’s a combination of a joke and a warning. I tell them: if you’re going, treat my country well. There are too many idiot tourists out there with...
Vocal EQ’ing can be frustrating. Sometimes it seems to sound like it was stuck on later, and doesn’t flow with the rest of the track. Below are the six frequency ranges you can start with when you are in trouble and need to figure out how to equalize your vocal so that it sits better with...