If you want to add a bunch of delay to your vocal but don’t want it to clutter up the source vocal track, this week’s mix video is for you. By using a compressor that’s side-chained to the vocal, you can control the delay in a very musical way. One of the producer’s references was...
If you want to learn a few tricks about spicing up your virtual instrument tracks, this week’s Mix Stream video is for you. We worked on a song called Twenty One by Wade Means, which I enjoyed working on immensely. Because the tracks were all midi tracks converted to audio, they were very clean-sounding and...
Happy Friday everyone, and what a glorious day it is to be still stuck in the studio with too much to do! If you’re quaranfreaked out and talking to your microphones like they’re your drinking buddies (maybe that’s just me…), you’ll enjoy a welcome break from your insanity by watching another lesson from this week’s mix...
This week’s recap from our mix streams has a little bit of mix philosophy and technical tips to try out. I was using a song from a great band from Boston called 3 Parts Dead, that play cool Alice in Chains’esque hard rock. If you’d like to join the mix streams or submit your song...
If you’re looking to improve your drum mixes, let me give you three quick tips to try out over the weekend. Throughout the years I’ve developed an extensive set of techniques to shape my drum sounds based on some very common problems that you may face as well. Kick Drum Not Cutting Through? If the...
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...