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Guaranteed you’ve effed yourself many times because of this. You’ve heard people tell you countless times to watch out for phase issues, but if you’re like most people it went in one ear and out the other because phase issues can be hard to spot, hard to fix, and definitely aren’t a sexy or fun part of the mixing process …
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 …
Meet your new best friend: rooms & overheads I’ll be honest: when I first started out (and for an embarrassingly long time afterward) I didn’t get why people cared about drum rooms. I thought it was one of those things that only blues-rock dads cared about, because metal drums are all about punch and power, so who cares about those …
Sometimes more is actually more You’ll often hear us say that less is more – that if you’ve got a ton of plugins on every channel or super complex signal chains that it’s probably compensating for a mistake you made somewhere else. And while that is generally true (#tbt when I first started out and had like 4 or 5 …
Here’s something many of you won’t want to hear: vocals are EVERYTHING. Like many of you, I started out as a guitarist and just wanted to record my own songs at home. So I get it– tweaking guitar tones until the sun comes up is fun. I could spend all day trying out new IRs and notching out a few dB to …
