Recently, I moved into a new condo. As exciting as the move was, one thing that absolutely terrified me was how my new mix room was going to sound. For years, I had been working out of a small bedroom to do the majority of my mixing and mastering work. Since I listened to/worked on […]
One of the biggest challenges most mixers face is getting the low end to translate properly across various sets of speakers. Often when we play things back on headphones or laptop speakers, the low end totally disappears. It seems that when this happens, a natural instinct for a lot of mixers is to go back […]
Getting a balanced low end while mixing bass guitar is one of the biggest challenges most engineers face. It can be extremely difficult to get your bass tracks to cut through your mix without overpowering everything else and making your mix sound really muddy. EQ and compression can be your best friends for correcting this […]
As trends in music change, so do the tools we use to help create mixes. Often these tools aren’t new or revolutionary, but instead they’ve resurfaced in popularity. Just like modern music relies on the use of drum samples; more and more these days, I hear a lot of people talking about reamping guitars. …Maybe it’s […]
