There’s a book I read every year called the Go-Giver. It’s a fantastic business book and directly influences how I run my creative ventures, whether that’s producing for bands, writing articles or selling my courses. One of the five laws the book talks about is the Law of Compensation: “Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives...
You can read as many newsletter and blogs as you want to help you improve. But the thing is, you’ll never get a full plan of what to do to improve your productions. It’s just impossible to put such an extensive subject into one email or blog post. So you read this and that. You put snippets of EQ...
Today’s tip is a quick one about reverb. More specifically, it’s about understanding the flexibility of using pre-fader sends on your reverbs to create effects. Many DAWs default to a post-fader or post-pan send setting. So, once you’ve found the fader balance of the dry track and decide to send the track to a reverb,...
Us Icelanders have a funny rivalry with the Swedes. Especially when it comes to who the “real Vikings” are. Us, of course. They just stayed home and cuddled. But, there’s one thing the Swedes do better than anybody else. F$#%in’ furniture. Especially when that furniture is from IKEA… I’ve lost count of how many things...
Yesterday somebody left a review for Step By Step Mixing that summarizes precisely why I keep writing for you guys. Here’s the review from Tino: “I LOVE THIS BOOK. I’m a singer, songwriter, producer and now after reading this I’d finally call myself a mix engineer as well. Before reading this I felt like I...
There’s a movie you need to watch. The documentary on The Eagles. It’s inspiring on so many levels when it comes to creativity. One of the clips that stood out was when the late Glenn Frey talked about Jackson Browne’s work ethic as a songwriter. Unfortunately, you can’t find that particular clip on Youtube anymore. Somebody...
I asked my Facebook followers about how they make their mixes translate and they all had some great ideas. All the home studio musicians had their different approaches. They mixed in mono on a mixcube. They used visual metering to help gauge their frequency balance. And they all tried to check their mixes on different speaker...
One of my first guitar teachers taught me a valuable lesson about practicing that I will never forget. His name is KK, and he’s one of Iceland’s most celebrated singer/songwriters. Even if you’ve never heard his music, you might’ve seen him play Riley Blue’s Icelandic father in the Netflix show Sense 8. I adore this...
I played a practical joke at our Olympics Opening Ceremonies party we held last weekend. My wife is fanatically obsessed with the Olympics so we always try to throw an Opening Ceremonies party for our friends. At one point that evening the conversation turned to Mortal Kombat for some reason. It’s not important why. However,...
“What is a limiter and how do you use one?” That’s a question we often get asked so I went straight to the expert for answers. Basically, a limiter is just a very aggressive compressor that tames the audio peaks and raises the overall level of your home studio mixes. However, I wanted a more...