Although I’m not from the U.S. it’s been my home for the last 6 years. I love it here. I’ve been able to enjoy some things that I never would’ve had back home in my native Iceland and for that I am grateful. (Yeah yea…I hear you. There’s plenty of stuff the US government can...
Mixing is a reactionary process. Although I have somewhat of a system it’s all still dependent on reacting to the tracks in the song. The song inside Quick Mixing is no different but in the sneak preview of the intro below I tell you a little bit about the methods that I try to stick...
Today I’m proud to announce my new tutorial, Quick Mixing With Stock Plug-ins. It’s a two hour journey you take with me as we mix one song in two hours. Every 10 minutes my timer will go off and I tell you exactly what I am trying to accomplish in the mix. Whether that’s EQ’ing the...
I know it’s not great to mix with your eyes. But sometimes you have to. In a mix I did this week I wanted to get a Every time a loud track popped out I scrambled around the mixer trying to find it. So I decided to do something different that I hadn’t done before:...
Compression is funny in how it affects the frequency spectrum. Maybe this is a placebo but I was working with the CLA vocals plug-in the other day and since it doesn’t really tell you exactly what it’s doing you’re forced to listen to whatever is happening to your tracks. Crazy right? #sarcasm Some of the...
Mixing is probably the most fun out of all the things we do as audio engineers. It’s where we get to take all these recorded tracks and make them sound awesome. But….sometimes you might get a little overwhelmed when you’ve gone overboard during the recording process. There’s nothing you can do about that though. The...
It’s day 3 of our kick drum and bass guitar series: 3 Ways to Separate the Bass Guitar and the Kick Drum Part I and II can be found here: 3 Ways to Separate the Bass Guitar and the Kick Drum [Part 1] Decide Where the Kick and Bass Sit in the Frequency Spectrum [Part Deux]...
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Yesterday we talked about the first part to dealing with the kick drum and bass guitar in a mix. If you haven’t checked it out yet, here’s the article. Leave a comment and tell me what your approach is. As I hinted at yesterday the low-end is tricky place to be. Low-end frequencies are big...
You’re probably familiar with that old bass and kick problem. When you’re trying to get both the kick to punch through while keeping the bass defined and clear? Right. Thought so. I’ve been dealing with some challenges around that recently so in the next 3 days I’ll be sharing some of the solutions I’ve found...
In the past week we’ve been working on this year’s Long Wait Christmas song. Yeah I know. It’s weird to work on a Christmas song so early but that’s what you gotta do in order to release it on time! Last year’s Christmas song went overboard with fancy bells and whistles. No literally, there were...