If you’re looking for a solid system for taking your song from a rough recording to a finished mix, my free Mix Finisher VIP workshop will help. I told you about it yesterday when I sent you my Pre-Mixing Checklist, which helps you make your song ready for mixing so you can avoid “fixing it...
The mindset of “fixing it in the mix” is a disaster waiting to happen. I don’t know how many times I’ve come across mixing problems that were actually songwriting, arranging or editing problems. Sometimes I’ve even gone so far as to refuse mixing the song because it’ll never sound good no matter how many plug-ins...
Do you remember the first time you put reverb on a track? It was magic, wasn’t it? All that space made your song sound so big! But when enthusiasm wore off, you realized your mix lost all definition. With a grudge, you reduced the amount of reverb. Definition restored. But all that space… gone forever....
A subscriber writes in with a question, “Hey Bjorgvin, online session drummer here. Gotten some good tips from you! Quick question: Do you advocate putting an eq on the drum bus first, then tweak each individual channel? Thanks so much.” EQ’ing the drum bus first can give you some big wins. It allows you to...
In this week’s step by step mixing tutorial, you’ll learn how to create depth in your instruments and tone in your bass. Check out the video here. If you’d like to figuratively download all of my mixing tricks into your brain, grab your copy of Step By Step Mixing right here.
We’re back with the next part in our step by step mixing series. Today we’ll be mixing the instruments into the beat using EQ, compression, and some other fun plug-ins as we work our way through this song. If you’re curious about my EQ moves I do in the video and want to learn how...
Whew! It’s been an intense 12 days of our Merry Mixing 101 series and I hope you’ve enjoyed it! At Saturday Night Live, the sketches are ready when it’s showtime because if they had infinite time to write, they’d take forever. In a similar fashion, this mix is done because the series and its allotted...
As we’re wrapping up our Merry Mixing 101 series, today I’ll be sharing a quick delay trick that you should know about. We’ll also go through my double-checking process to make sure that every specific element sounds good on its own while still fitting into the mix. Check it out: In other awesome news: The...
If you’re not using parallel processing, stereo widening or mix bus processing, your mixes are missing out. These are some of the best techniques you can use to add that professional sheen to your songs, giving it that extra 10% your mixes have been lacking. Check out the next part of our mixing series on...
In today’s video in our Merry Mixing 101 series we’ll be answering the question: “What should I do next in my mix if I think it already sounds decent?” The simple answer is of course: Experimentation. If you have time to spare, spend them on learning through tweaking your plug-ins, seeing what they do, and...