44.1 khz vs 96 khz?
These are two of your main choices when it comes to sampling rates for recording your audio, forget about the others(48k,88.2,etc.)for now. These numbers represent the number of sonic snapshots(audio...
View ArticleTake Your Time
If you have your own home studio than you have one major advantage over the other guys and that is time. Having all the time you need to produce a great piece of music is a luxury that we can tend to...
View ArticlePre-Mixing Your Track Part 1
Ok if you are in the recording or producing process of a song or you are the artist than this is for you. Just recording a bunch of audio and having a “vision” for the song is important but for it to...
View ArticleUsing Effects As Glue
Using effects as glue is what many mixers will do give thier tracks a feeling of togetherness and to make a group of instruments come together and sound like a song. If you have a project studio and...
View ArticleGood Bass In A Mix
Getting a good bass sound in a mix is important for just about any genre of music. The first way to go about this is to obviously get a good bass recording.You can just plug your bass into your...
View ArticleUsing Delay On Vocals
I was against using any delay on vocals for a while because they just didn’t sound natural but lately I’ve been using them effectively to give my vocal tracks some backbone. When I send my vocals...
View ArticleUsing Clip-Based Gain
This is for you Pro Tools 10 users out there, I don’t know of any other software at the moment that uses clip-based gain. Using clip-based gain has made it much easier for me to smooth out my vocal...
View ArticleEasy Stereo Guitar Sound
Getting a good stereo guitar sound can make your mix wide and full sounding. I will share with you an easy and effective way to achieve this with a mono recording. I have experimented a lot with stereo...
View ArticleLow Pass And High Pass Filters
Low pass and high pass filters are widely used and can be applied to anything in your mix to keep it from going above or below a specific range of frequencies. If something has to much low frequency...
View ArticleUsing Reference Mixes
Using reference mixes is something even mixers with 20+ years of experience still do. If you want your mixes to sound professional than you should ALWAYS be refering to professional & commercial...
View ArticleMic Placement 101, Part 2 – Recording Vocals
So you’ve got everything set up and you want to record some vocals. People tend to make this more complicated than it actually is. If you have a good vocalist and a quality microphone than it can be...
View Article44.1 khz vs 96 khz?
These are two of your main choices when it comes to sampling rates for recording your audio, forget about the others(48k,88.2,etc.)for now. These numbers represent the number of sonic snapshots(audio...
View ArticleMic Placement 101, Part 1 – Setting-Up
Ok this is a big one for you newbies out there so pay attention. The position of your mic during the recording of various intruments is vitally important. Recording your tracks properly is WHAT WILL...
View ArticleHow Will Your Mix Translate?
So lets say you’ve got a great mix in your headphones, which are of superior quality. Or you’ve got a mix on your studio monitors that sounds absolutely perfect. Now play that same mix back on...
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