If you want to make great music, you have to get creative. This means breaking the rules. Now, I know it's hard as audio guys to not follow certain rules, but today I want to encourage you to break the rules. Music is a creative art and by its very nature, subjective. This means there is no standard or set way of always doing something one way. We simply decide along the way what we like and what we don't like. It's completely...
Friday, February 28, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
How To Get More Punch Out Of Your Virtual Drums
Many of you today record, produce, and mix all of your own music. You write the songs, record the instruments, and then mix the music. This means for a lot of you, you are probably using virtual drums. And let me say this, virtual drums are great. It's really amazing how far they have come with sampled...
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
Two Ways To Keep Your Mix Dynamic
People love to hear dynamics whether they know it or not. Dynamics give a song life and personality. It allows a song to surprise the listener and separate the chorus, verses, and bridge from each other. However, in today's day and age of loudness wars, we are losing more and more dynamics. Everyone is competing to see who can get their song the loudest and they are sacrificing dynamics.
What are some ways in which we can keep dynamics...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Don't Wait Till You're Ready
That title probably sounds kind of confusing. Don't wait till you're ready? What does that even mean? Well, in short, it means...
Don't wait till you have everything figured out to start.
If there's a passion, dream, business, project, mix, or whatever you want to start on, why are you waiting?...
Friday, February 7, 2014
The Secret to Becoming a Better Mixing Engineer
If you are a mixing engineer, you probably want to be better. I mean, who doesn't? We all want to get better at our craft. I think the moment we believe we have "arrived" is the day we've lost put a ceiling on our potential. But how do you get better? Do you just keep researching mixing? Do you keep watching tutorial videos and listening Dave Pensado? Do you keep posting our Gearslutz and other communities talking about mixing?
While...
Thursday, February 6, 2014
3 Steps to Making Money as an Audio Engineer
Today I talk about three steps you can take to start making money as an audio engineer. These are three steps that I have taken personally, and have lead me directly to paid clients.
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Monday, February 3, 2014
One Way You Can Keep Clients Coming Back
Today I want to share how you can keep your clients coming back to you. This applies if you are a recording engineer, mix engineer, or even a mastering engineer. In fact, this really applies in any business situation. Here it is.
Over Deliver
It's a simple concept, yet somehow we miss it. If you want...
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