Finally. That song came together. You charted the chords, you finished the lyrics, and the melody is strong. Now what? It’s time to record it for all to hear. However, recording can be a stressful task if you’ve just started. There are so many recording techniques and things to think about that it can quickly...
A great guitar sound is crucial for making a rock song sound huge. Turns out, making it big during tracking goes A LONG WAY. We’re in the middle of recording a punk rock EP and last time we got an excellent guitar sound after we experimented a bit during the tracking phase. Here’s what we did:...
I’m proud to promote one of the cooler courses I’ve come across in recent years, Hardcore Tracking by Jordan Valeriote. It helps you become a master not only of your recording gear but also the instruments themselves so that you can always start with the best source possible. If you watched the free workshop in...
If you record harder music like rock, hardcore, punk or metal you might like this free video series Jordan Valeriote is giving people this week. It’s called Hardcore Tracking and it’s a free video series on recording hard rock music. I watched the three videos this week and I am SUPER IMPRESSED. It’s like he’s...
1. Find the Right Spot for the Drum-Kit My home studio space is pretty small. When a metal band comes in with a huge rack for all their unnecessary toms we have to block the door so nobody can go out the front. But when you have a normal sized drum-kit you have a little...
Got this question from a reader: “Thanks for all your good advice! I find it hard to get a good setting work with the de-esser so much while mixing?” -Thomas When I read this over I remembered that my man Joe Gilder over at Home Studio Corner had a similar issue last year when he was...
When I started getting into home audio production a few years ago, I had already been a musician for a good ten years, my primary instrument being guitar. Up until that point, the extent of my recording experience laid somewhere in between tinkering on a now-archaic analog four-track machine and capturing ideas on my phone’s...
Got this question from Joel, a subscriber, about creating space in a mix: Hello, thanks for helping out in audio issues it’s really encouraging. Just have a question, after sweeping & removing unwanted frequencies how do I create sonic space in my live concert mix or studio mix between instruments, vocals/lead vocals, vocals & instrument...
I’ve got two videos today about a live recording session we did last weekend. The first one goes into the planning phase of prepping the session and thinking things through before the session even starts, something I very much like doing. If you like the thought process behind planning sessions I give away another session...
We talk a lot about how to get a good recording and how we can make it right before any of that. Getting the right instrument for the job. Drums are especially important in that aspect because not only are they hard to record in general, they can be constructed in so many different ways...