If you’re anything like me, you love to look at pictures of big, fancy recording studios – the gear, the look, the size… it’s all so attractive Then you compare those studios to your home studio situation… it’s small, might have clothes all over the place, no acoustic treatment or fancy outboard gear. “If only […]
Do you ever feel like when you’re working on your mixes, you focus too much of your energy on the boring session setup stuff and not enough on the creative process? Wouldn’t it be great to get those steps done in a fraction of the time so that you can dedicate more time to the […]
Have you ever opened up a new mix session and immediately felt overwhelmed because you didn’t know where to start? Maybe you thought…– Where should I pan the instruments?– How loud should my effects be?– How much attack should I have on the kick? Or maybe you finished your mix, got it sounding great in […]
Have you ever found yourself mixing and decided to try out some of your plugin’s presets only to feel like they actually made things sound worse? Maybe you thought: Are the pros really using these awful settings?!? or Wait… Are my tracks supposed to actually sound like this??? Presets are often designed with a variety […]
I remember it clearly… The first day I walked into my first big studio job after graduating from a prestigious music production school. At this point in my life, I had spent a bunch of money for tuition and over two years of my life studying all I could about the correct way to use […]
