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If you’ve never used track or project templates than you are missing out on a huge time saver. Any time spent setting up tracks and routing is time taken away from our creative or mixing process. Life is short, let’s find way to do things more efficiently 🙂 This video will walk you through setting […]
STOP CLICKING! Ok seriously, it’s ok to click sometimes, but there are many windows and mac keybinds that perform actions much faster than if you use your mouse. For instance, to copy an object, many people highlight, right click, scroll down to copy, then left click. Did you know that you can simply highlight and […]
Using Send effects in place of individual effects for each track can often be more economical and save horsepower on your computer to put elsewhere. There are many effects and creative options you have while using Send effects. The attached video will demonstrate how and why to use Sends with reverb. Get creative and try […]
Taking notes is a key step to improving my final productions. I don’t mean taking notes away from my ultra killer kazoo solo, I am talking about breaking out pen and paper. If you have ever listened back to your songs or mixes, you have surely encountered a “spot” (or maybe several “spots”) in […]
This is part two of the blog series “Making money from your music”. In this post we will discuss music libraries. The first blog post in this series spoke about streaming your music over internet radio and how to submit your music to Pandora. That post can be found HERE. Based on some feedback I […]
It seems like up until the last decade, everyone aspired to be a “Rock Star”. That was how we all dreamt of making money in music. Now it seems like everyone wants to be a film composer or write music for film and television. While this is certainly a more attainable goal than […]
Using reference mixes We have all been there, we start to mix our song. We add a little boost in the high end of the vocals. A few more slider moves and it seems like our mix is finally coming together. We boost the high end on the vocals just a smidgen more and […]
Mixing Tip of the Day: Effect Chains – Vox Compression Effect chain presets are a huge time saver in DAW mixing. In the analog world we have “channel strip” hardware units, which are comprised of various effects in a signal chain. Typically you might see an EQ, Compressor and Limiter for example. We can […]
Recording Tip of the Day: Save often and have a backup plan Learn the key command, “Control S” (“Command S” on a Mac). Whatever recording software you’re using, it will have two different save functions. “Save” and “Save As”. The one draw back of computer recording, as opposed to analog recording, is computers and […]
Mixing Tip of the day: Vocal leveling In my opinion, nothing beats good old fashioned volume automation to get the vocals level. If you add the compressor to a smooth vocal line, when you make adjustments to the compression it which will remain consistent throughout the song. This is especially […]