Delve into my audio mixing journey – tips, techniques, and musings from years in the studio.
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I find the Billboard Hot 100 end of year charts fascinating. I’ve done a lot of research to try and understand why some songs become number ones. Typically it’s not just for musical and lyrical reasons. Having a song in an iconic movie or television show seems to really help. Read more…
In the most basic sense mixing is taking many individual tracks and combining them together (mixing) to create a stereo version of the song. This is the “knob twiddling” part where you’re making sure all of the different elements that have been recorded separately work together to create a great Read more…
Asking “How do I choose a mastering engineer” is a bit like trying to find a good car mechanic. Not everyone understands what a mechanic does. How do you know you’re getting good work done? When you talk to your friends you might get the line “you need to go Read more…
Do you remember when you were at school or uni and you had an assignment that you had to get finished? You had two weeks to have it done and life was cruisy. Two weeks out you’d be, “great, plenty of time, I’ll get stuck in tomorrow and start knocking Read more…
Did you ever think a 19th century Italian economic philosopher could teach you how to write better songs? Neither did I until I read about the pareto principle. So what is this 80/20 principle? This phenomenon goes by a number of names. The Pareto Principle, the law of the vital Read more…