While reading and replying to your comments on Facebook yesterday a particular problem kept popping up. Harshness. Harshness is a common mixing problem when you add too much high-mids to your mix. Usually, adding a high-mid frequency boost makes your track sound more present and clear. However, it’s a slippery slope if you’re not careful. If that’s...
Multi-band compression is a great tool to understand. It can really help shape the sound of your mixes and it comes in handy when the full-band compressor sounds too heavy-handed on a track. What follows is an excerpt from my Drum Mix Toolkit that teaches you how to use the multiband compressor on drums. How...
Being an efficient mixing engineer is incredibly important. If you charge a flat rate per song and you can mix more songs in less time you’ll make more money. Simple as that. Assuming you can keep the quality of your mixes consistent, you’re in a very good place for your professional productivity. However, becoming fast...
Low-end clarity is a common problem for home studio musicians, so when I stumble upon a trick that works I feel like it’s my duty to share it with you. I’ve been working on a song with a band that found my site and definitely up my alley so I got excited about helping them...
One of the biggest problems I hear from the students mixing the hard rock multi-track included in the Mixing Hard Rock With 5 Plug-ins Masterclass is the drum sound. Making powerful and punchy drums is a big challenge, but there’s one thing that can always make your drums hit harder. Parallel Compression. I have a...
One of the things I absolutely despise is figuring out what you want to watch on Netflix these days. There are just so many $%”% options that you end up sifting through pages upon pages of movies, tv shows, and documentaries for over half an hour. And before you know it, your soup is cold,...
Hey guys, It’s me, Joey. I’m Björgvin’s fictional engineer he likes to put silly captions to. Like this one: I allow it because it’s lonely to be stuck in a folder on his hard drive. It’s so much more fun to be posted on Facebook where I can annoy the trolls and haters with their...
A REALLY common problem when you’re mixing drums is trying to get rid of the annoying resonances and ringing sounds in your snare drum. Sometimes there’s just a frequency that’s so overbearing that it destroys the rest of the drum sound. If that’s ever happened to you let me show you how I fix it....
Over 130 home studio musicians have already jumped on the introductory discount offer of the Drum Mix Toolkit. I just want to say THANK YOU to you all! If you haven’t, you might still be wondering how the Drum Mix Toolkit will take your drum sounds from mediocre to amazing? I’ve been answering your...
As far as the tools you have to shape the style of your drum sound, in multiple directions. It can take it from a punchy garage sound if you add a short room reverb, to a big arena rock song if you choose a hall. And if you just want some space for ambiance without...