Say goodbye to weak, thin drums! First things first: mixing drums is HARD! That’s because it’s really like mixing half a dozen or more instruments at once, each of which has wildly different characteristics. Each piece of the kit is its own beast, and yet they all have to gel with each other AND cut through the mix without …
Learn From The Legends – Volume 5: Jacquire King
| By Thomas Brett | Introduction To The Series: Learning How To Learn is one of the most crucial steps you can take towards becoming great at pretty much anything – And what better place to learn than from the minds of people who have actually been doing the job successfully for years? In this ongoing series of Blogs, we’ll …
7 Questions With Graham Cochrane
Graham Cochrane is a freelance recording and mix engineer living in Tampa, Florida and founder of TheRecordingRevolution.com. As a lifelong singer/songwriter and musician, his passion for recording and mixing has grown from the bedroom studio, to university (where he studied audio production), to multi-million dollar studios, to fortune 500 software companies, and all the while freelancing for artists and bands …
Live And Learn: Audio Lessons From Everyday Life – Part 2
| By Thomas Brett | Introduction To The Series: Tired of endless tutorial videos and thick books on mixing? Take a break and live a bit! *SHH, JOEL WANASEK WILL HEAR YOU!!!* All “#Smalltime” jokes aside – Believe it or not, staring at a computer screen or sitting in front of a mixing console in the studio for weeks-on-end without …
Learn From The Legends – Volume 4: Andrew Scheps
| By Thomas Brett | Introduction To The Series: Learning How To Learn is one of the most crucial steps you can take towards becoming great at pretty much anything – And what better place to learn than from the minds of people who have actually been doing the job successfully for years? In this ongoing series of Blogs, we’ll …