I’m receiving questions around headphones for mixing on a daily base – for obvious reasons! Many of us mix in different places all the time, we travel and work from bedrooms, hotel-rooms or trains – in situations where headphones are the only viable solution to get some work done. As you might know, my Mixing…
This is a look at the most popular classic types of EQs, from my best-selling book “YOUR MIX SUCKS”. The book is a Complete Mix Methodology for the entire process from DAW preparation to delivery. Before we dive into specific types of EQs, and where to use them, know that you will need to use…
This post is about cause and effect, and why things have to be done in the right order. I’m receiving a lot of e-mails from people who ask me to review and comment on their mixes, many even offer me money to do this as a service. The e-mails go something like „what’s the single…
In a previous post on compression, I looked into using compressors as „toneboxes“, and put a few classic compressor emulations through a test setup that would make their harmonic distortion visible, using a test oscillator and frequency analyzer. A number of readers immediately asked me to share my opinion on the beta-version of u-he’s PRESSWERK,…
In „The magic of the first listen“, I spoke about the massive advantage a hired mix engineer has, compared to the situation of a producer mixing his own song. But of course, many of you are producers and songwriters or even artists who write, play, produce and mix your own music from start to finish.…
Whether you like it or not, the current music industry is a hit-driven environment. Album-Sales are down, and the songwriters, producers and engineers who still earn solid money in this job are the ones that attach their name to a huge worldwide hit-record. [wdfb_like_button] Regardless of what genre you’re working in, I firmly believe it’s…
The environment in our jobs is tough, the music industry is on a Titanic-course. All the more, the most critical skill in our jobs is dealing with clients and their feedback. When you have paying clients, you obviously want to keep them. In addition to all the nerdy audio chapters, this is a major part…
The greatest gift for anybody involved in music production is the first-listen experience. When you are listening to a song for the first time, it is the only time you are hearing it like the consumer out there, the person who we want to win over with our final product. But what happens when you’ve…
This is a look into the chapter on mixing kicks, from the best-selling book “YOUR MIX SUCKS” . The book is a Complete Mix Methodology for the entire process from DAW preparation to delivery – no bullshit, just solid audio advice that works all the time. “The Kick is one of the most critical elements…
How to do a simple acoustic room measurement in your home studio or listening room – in 10 minutes or less! Anybody can do this – all you need is a computer connected to a pair of speakers. This will give you a head start into solving your room acoustic issues, and I’ll also tell you more…
To conclude what I’ve theorised about in Part 1 of this post, before you start to do any work on the mix, ask the producer to provide you with a rough mix of the song, the one the client likes best so far, the one that represents where the producer wants to go with it. Your…
The greatest gift for anybody involved in music production is the first-listen experience. When you are listening to a song for the first time, it is the only time you are hearing it like the consumer out there, the person who we want to win over with our final product. But what happens when you’ve…
