You’d be surprised how many times you’ll play a mix and think it’s fine, simply because you don’t have an ear for what to look for yet. Masking, imbalance, and harsh frequencies are all hidden in plain sight until you develop an ear for it. Training your ear isn’t so much about special techniques, as […]
If you’ve got a mix that sounds dull, or if you’ve still got a long way to go before your mix is done, it’s easy to get sucked into adding plugin after plugin in an effort to get a more exciting sound. We know that compressors make things sound more aggressive, EQ’s make things sound […]
So you go through all that hard work, get a track sounding lush on your headphones, pop it in the car and it sounds weak. Or play it on some laptop speakers and it sounds muddy. It feels like the mix has betrayed you, especially after you’ve spent so much time on it. This is […]
A new project with a bunch of rough tracks can be daunting, like facing a big ball of twine. The drums are masking the guitar, the vocals aren’t sitting, and whenever you fix one thing, you’re messing up another. At this point don’t worry about manipulating frequencies yet. Start with balance. Bring all of your […]
