Mix Position: How to Setup Your Listening Room
There are three main aspects when it comes to setting up a listening room properly. Each one is critical. If even one of them is …
There are three main aspects when it comes to setting up a listening room properly. Each one is critical. If even one of them is …
You’re about to learn how to keep those sounds from sneaking into your recording takes and how to deal with the few that still make …
My brother and I finally set out to making another rap album just for fun between ourselves, and I had always promised myself that I’d …
For studio engineers involved in tracking and mixing, the eternal war wages on. We want our final results nice and warm in the low and …
Go ahead and freak out if you want to, but it’s totally unnecessary. This easy guide will have you becoming a studio tech wizard in …
The reason every major studio has these “boxes” hanging on the walls, or the walls themselves are made of cloth covering “something firm but soft,” …
With the advent of the internet, and then easily performed micro-transactions, things have slowly begun to change for artists. It could be said that it …
No matter your goal… whether you’re a rapper, producer, singer, podcast creator, video game designer, etc., you need a quality vocal chain set up and …
Sampling is funny business, because doing it right is no easy task. This is why producers who want to be purists and not use them …
Life is full of many curiosities, and it is quite curious in itself that this instrument is making a comeback into the mainstream musical consciousness. …
When it comes to turning off your listeners, I don’t know what’s worse: having an anemic, powerless low-end or having a muddy, overpowering mess with …
The deeper into the adventure of song writing you delve, the more you’ll begin to notice patterns, especially relating to song structure. Differing genres and …
While it’s indisputable that countless top quality songs have been produced while mixing with headphones, there are many issues to be overcome that can simply be avoided by …
The more time you spend in the music industry, the more you’ll realize how few “musicians” even know the rudimentary fundamentals of music theory. You’ll …
Not a day goes by where I don’t hear some non-hip-hop listener say something stupid like, “Listen to this crap. I could make this beat! …
With skillful mixing, a horribly recorded song can be made reasonably listenable. A terribly written tune can be polished into a less embarrassing effort. A …