Using mix automation for more than just volume. In this article I want to share with you how I used automation for my award winning mix of Bo Bice’s song November. This mix was done for the Sennheiser/Nuemann Bo Bice mixing competition, which was judged by a panel of top
Read more →How to prepare your tracks for Professional Mixing Once you have decided that it may not be best to try to do it all yourself, and you think you have a song that is good enough to get professionally mixed, you need to prepare your tracks to send to the
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How to Mix a song – The Mixing Process Mixing is not something you can learn to do quickly. It takes many years of practice and experience before you get really good at it, just like learning to be a great guitar player or singer. My belief is that if
Read more →The “Secret Weapon” behind many great recording and mixes! Here is something that not too many people talk about any more, and thus many beginners might not know about. But, it’s one of those tools that I can’t live without! The SPL Transient Designer is a cool piece of hardware,
Read more →Don’t underestimate the importance of great mixing! There is no denying that many artists are choosing to purchase recording gear and record themselves at home. There are certainly many advantages of recording yourself at home, not the least of which is the potential cost savings versus recording at a big
Read more →I’m really starting to get into remixing, even though I’m not a dance club, DJ type producer. I certainly don’t keep up with modern dance music trends, even though I do enjoy the music. Instead, what I like to do is to take the songs in a different direction than
Read more →Breakdown of the mix of Ben Smith’s drums The drummer for Heart, Ben Smith, helped me out with some drum tracks for one of the songs I co-wrote with Coreena, “If You Wanna”. We tracked the drums at the famous London Bridge Studio, which has a HUGE room, and then
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Want bigger & fuller sounding songs? Less is More! The biggest problem I encounter with inexperienced artists, producers, and engineers these days is that there is too much of everything. Too many parts in the song arrangements. Too many tracks in the recording. Too many plugins in the mix. Too
Read more →Even with pop filters in front of a microphone, plosives (pops) can still be an issue with some vocalists. However, there is a relatively simple fix that can quickly reduce or eliminate those loud pops from your vocal tracks. Use a high-pass filter, or low shelving EQ, to roll off
Read more →Revised & Updated! This is an old article I wrote in the early 90s. Quite a bit has changed since then, but most of the advice here still applies. With the reworking of my site in 2012, I have gone through this article and made some additions and revisions to
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