Musician on a Mission
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Musician on a MissionVoicesStock Plugins Are Enough I still remember when I was stuck in a loop where every new plugin felt like the missing piece of the puzzle. Sunday morning would roll around, and I would open my promotions inbox to look for deals before I ever even op
Musician on a MissionVoicesWhy Your Mix Falls Apart on Earbuds You’ve spent three days working on your latest mix. You finally got to the point where you’ve dialed in every aspect of it. It’s finally sounding great on your studio monitors. Excitedly, you bounce it out, throw it on y
Musician on a MissionVoicesCook vs Chef By now, you’ve probably heard the advice that you should use reference tracks if you want a great mix that translates everywhere. References can give you objective clarity about what a finished mix in your genre actually
Musician on a MissionVoicesWhy More Reverb Won’t Add Depth Welcome back to the series. In the last article, we talked about the importance of transients when it comes to creating the illusion of near and far in your mix. Today we finish up the last of our principles of depth, re
Musician on a MissionVoicesWhy Your Drums Still Don’t Hit In the last article we got into the second principle of depth, frequency, and how the top end and the low mids both tell your listener how far away something is. Today we’re on the third one, transients. And I told you a
Musician on a MissionVoicesWhy Your Mix Has No Front and Back In the last article we talked about the first of our four principles of depth, volume. Today we’re getting into the second one, frequency, and how frequencies play into proximity. Every time I think about how to explain
Musician on a MissionVoicesWhy Your Mix Sounds Flat When I first started mixing, depth was the thing experienced engineers always talked about that I could never quite grasp. After training thousands of mixing engineers, I’ve seen the same misunderstandings about depth sh
Musician on a MissionVoicesWho cares about mastering? Mastering today is very different to a couple of decades ago. I think people are sometimes confused by the fact that we’re called Mastering.com. We don’t exist purely to train professional mastering engineers. In fact, t
Musician on a MissionVoicesTop 10 Music Production Courses Online Table of Contents What does a music producer do? Is education important for a music producer? What is required to become a music producer? How to choose the right online education program? Courses Conclusion What does a
Musician on a MissionVoicesHow loud should you monitor? Something surprised me at our recent Masterclass at Clear Lake Studios in Hollywood, CA. The first two days were spent recording a track with EJ Michaels. Students watched us go through the entire process form scratch. T
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