Keeping your Ears Fresh During Recording and Mixing

Your ears are the most valuable and priceless gear you have. Here’s a well known music rule in our studio that never gets broken: Above all, protect your ears! Here are a few simple tips to keep your ears fresh while working recording and mixing in the studio for long hours:

Mixing and Mastering Myths

Mixing and Mastering Myths are just a few of the mis-perceptions that plague the music industry. When this mis-information spreads like fire across music professionals and music hobbyists, there is a huge problem that results. Lack of creativity, inspiration and a misguided focus..

EQ Settings; Music Production Equalizer Settings

When thinking of EQ settings, many students are unsure of where to start. I am often asked “how do I EQ this instrument?” or “what are the rules of Equalization for drums and bass?” If you are using an MPC, Triton, Motif, or any other hardware gear, these guidelines can apply but are best left [...]

Doubling Vocals

How to double track vocals is a common question. Some recording engineers know the power of doubling vocals and others barely play with it. What are double tracked vocals? Double tracked vocals are recording the vocal twice or ‘stacking’ vocals in order to thicken the vocal sound in the recording. Vocal doubling has been traced [...]

Best Bass Sound

This tutorial will help you achieve great bass sound in any situation on any system. The factors that make up great bass is your monitoring system, the mixing room, the bass patch, effects, compression and EQ.
Monitoring: Make sure your speakers are flat – meaning there are no eq curves, additional frequencies added so that what [...]

Bass Drum Compression; Compressing a Kick Drum Tutorial

The purpose of bass drum compression and compressing a kick drum tutorial is to make the ‘meat’ of the drums louder and to reduce the transients / peaks at the same time so that the kick can be punchier.
This tutorial is going to focus on compressing the Kick Drum and starter compression settings and will [...]

Vocal Recording Tips and Techniques

The best vocal recording tips and vocal recording techniques are not what you may expect. Because of technology, it doesn’t matter where you are recording vocals. I have recorded vocals in the middle of a room, in a hallway, bedroom, practically anywhere and always end up with great results..