This is a guest post written by Emerson R. Maningo. Most music mixing tutorials you will find on the Internet emphasize the most common genres such as pop, rock, alternative music, hip-hop and metal. Very few resources are dedicated to Jazz music mixing. Jazz music is not as popular as it once was, but this type...
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.“ -Sun Tzu Here is an exercise. Put all your faders up recorded tracks. Think Tall. Wide. And Deep. Tall – Frequencies With your eyes closed, what needs to be tall? Which elements need high frequencies and...
When you’re mixing music there are two ways to affect the audio you are working with. Whatever your processor does there are two ways to make it work on a signal. Either by using it as a send effect, or as an insert. But what’s the difference between the two? What’s a send effect Send...
Knowing where to go when you need to EQ is a great skill to have. It’s much faster to instinctively cut that pesky frequency out of your kick drum than having to go through each part of the spectrum until you accidentally happen upon the right one. Enter Quiztones Quiztones is a great little application...
You might have a similar problem to many other engineers. Namely, dealing with muddiness in your mixes. We all want nice and clear mixes, full of thick low-end that doesn’t overpower our pristine highs right? A muddy mix is when the lower mids of your mix get cluttered up and all the bottom end seems...
There is an incredible change in the sound of the song from the even better. You’ve all heard about getting things great at the source. Record it well and then you might not have to do an awful lot to it in the mixing phase. It will make the mixing process easier if you have...
The foundation of the drum-kit is the kick drum sound when you’re mixing drums. The kick drum makes your head bob in beat with the music. It’s the sound that you feel in your gut when you’re dancing to extremely loud music at the Jersey Shore. If the kick drum sounds bad then the whole...
There’s always space to learn more guitar mixing techniques, especially if you’re a guitarist as well as an engineer. Us guitarist like hearing our guitar sound amazing in a mix. We want it to be the loudest instrument, and routinely have fights with our singers about what the main instrument in a song really is....
The chorus effect is one of those modulation effects everybody kind of knows how to use but they always seem to use it the same way. Maybe you just use it for an eighties clean sound, or for distorted rock solos. But there are a few different ways you can use chorus, all on different...
With all the options of reverb modes, plug-ins and outboard processors it’s hard to know what you should choose for your next track. What should you think about when choosing the right space for you song? Even though you have a favorite sounding reverb it might not work for that alternative FolkTronica act that you...