When I exited the airplane it dawned on me. I couldn’t understand a single sign. Wherever I looked, my brain short-circuited and couldn’t put meaning to the messages I was seeing. For someone who’s been to over 15 countries, this feeling of complete lack of understanding was…foreign to me…no pun intended. I could usually get...
The Drum Mix Toolkit is 40% off until tomorrow because of my early Black Friday sale. I wanted to use this opportunity to give the top ten most important things you’ll learn from the Drum Mix Toolkit. If you already know all of these things, cool. You might not need the Toolkit. But if you...
I have this running joke whenever I’m invited to a potluck-style party. Especially when said party is at my house. I should explain…we get asked to host parties for our friends all the time because our house is nice and open. Because it’s perfect for large groups of people, the parties aren’t always our idea....
A reader asked me how to take pop sounds out of vocal sounds. I assume they’re referring to the ‘p’ sounds, formally known as plosives, that they’re hearing in their audio after the recording. Unfortunately, it’s much more difficult to take the plosives out of a recording during the mixing phase than just making sure...
If you’ve followed any of my drum mixing advice inside the Drum Mix Toolkit, you know that I tend to bus and group my drum tracks to simplify my processing. Here’s a quick excerpt from the course that talks about the different ways of bussing your drums: “All drums together – Simple and easy. Makes for an easy mixing job on the drum bus but doesn’t have...
Today I’m going to give you the most critical lesson in mixing. It might not be the most glorious. It certainly won’t be the most technical. It’s not even COMPLICATED! But it is incredibly important. It’s what everyone does at the start of the mix, but because they’re so eager to rush into EQ’ing, compressing, and...
We got a great comment from Joao Bem, member, about saturation on the kick drum: Kick: After setting the right volume, before inserting a compressor, try using first saturation, and then work with the compressor. Most of the time, if you first try saturation, it can give an already nice definition/separation in the overall mix!...
I got into an argument with this asshole at a bar recently. Now, I’m a lot more civil than I used to be during my whiskey-drinking days, but I had an unusually long day, so the fuse was a little short. I walked in and was going to stand at the bar and wait for...
I asked the Audio Issues Facebook followers recently: What’s been a fun mixing trick you’ve been using lately? And boy did they not disappoint. Here are some of my favorites from the thread: This last trick is actually a favorite of mine. If you can make your drums hit hard and sound great at low...
When you mix for too long, you’ll risk ruining the mix you started out with. Not just because you like tweaking things here and there, but because after a while your ears are shot. That happened to me yesterday as I was finishing up a long day of mixing. As I usually do, I took...