How to prepare your tracks for Professional Mixing Once you have decided that it may not be best to try to do it all yourself, and you think you have a song that is good enough to get professionally mixed, you need to prepare your tracks to send to the mixing engineer. Most professional mixing […]

How to Mix a song - The Mixing Process Mixing is not something you can learn to do quickly.  It takes many years of practice and experience before you get really good at it, just like learning to be a great guitar player or singer.  My belief is that if you are an artist, you […]

The "Secret Weapon" behind many great recording and mixes! Here is something that not too many people talk about any more, and thus many beginners might not know about.  But, it's one of those tools that I can't live without!  The SPL Transient Designer is a cool piece of hardware, that has also been ported […]

Don't underestimate the importance of great mixing! There is no denying that many artists are choosing to purchase recording gear and record themselves at home.  There are certainly many advantages of recording yourself at home, not the least of which is the potential cost savings versus recording at a big recording studio.  The cost for […]

For recording & mixing, I love my analog compressors! There is just something about high quality, real hardware analog compressors, that just seem to make my job so much easier!  I have nothing against software plugins, and I have a huge assortment of plugins that I use extensively, including software compressors.  I've been a computer […]

Elliot Scheiner is one of the top producers/engineers in the world, with 24 Grammy nominations, 7 Grammy awards, 4 Emmy nominations,  1 Emmy award, 3 TEC Awards nominations, etc.... The list goes on!  Even if you don't know his name, you have most certainly heard his work. Yesterday I had to chance to meet Elliot […]

I'm really starting to get into remixing, even though I'm not a dance club, DJ type producer.  I certainly don't keep up with modern dance music trends, even though I do enjoy the music.  Instead, what I like to do is to take the songs in a different direction than you would expect for a […]

Breakdown of the mix of Ben Smith's drums The drummer for Heart, Ben Smith, helped me out with some drum tracks for one of the songs I co-wrote with Coreena, "If You Wanna".  We tracked the drums at the famous London Bridge Studio, which has a HUGE room, and then I mixed them in my […]

Want bigger & fuller sounding songs?  Less is More! The biggest problem I encounter with inexperienced artists, producers, and engineers these days is that there is too much of everything.  Too many parts in the song arrangements.  Too many tracks in the recording.  Too many plugins in the mix.  Too many frequencies competing with each […]

Even with pop filters in front of a microphone, plosives (pops) can still be an issue with some vocalists. However, there is a relatively simple fix that can quickly reduce or eliminate those loud pops from your vocal tracks.  Use a high-pass filter, or low shelving EQ, to roll off the low end of the […]