Psychology of a Mix Engineer: An Interview With Adam Barber
Adam Barber is a recording/mixing engineer with over 18 years experience and is currently working out of 3 Peace Studios located in Sarasota FL. Adam relocated Sarasota FL. when YouTube stars, the three Manzano brothers of Boyce Avenue, hired him as chief engineer at their recording studio. While specializing in rock music, Adam has experience […]
Continue readingHow to Mix Drake/Weekend Style Drums in Pro Tools
What really makes a Drake style drum sound? It’s not really that easy to quantify, especially in one article. Even though Drake seems to have a “signature sound” it’s actually not as consistant as you may think. I mean when you go from Marvin’s Room to Hold On, We’re Going Home, you can see how […]
Continue readingNative Instruments SUPERCHARGER [Plug-in Review]
Recently Native Instruments released a FREE (for a limited time) plug-in called SUPERCHARGER. Native Instruments boasts that “Supercharger” is dripping with high-octane attitude of a one-of-a-kind tube compressor. Thanks to Modern Mixing subscriber Ben Busack for giving me the heads up on this cool plug-in so I can share it with you. I’ve been able […]
Continue readingSidechaining Bass Like Jaycen Joshua
By this point in time I think almost every producer knows what sidechaining is even if they don’t produce EDM style records. Ever since electronic producers made sidechaining a staple in that genre it has slowly made its way into other genre’s as well; one of them being hip hop. So a few weeks ago […]
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Mixing Templates and If You Should Use Them
From time to time I get asked about my mixing set up and if I use mixing templates or if I can share my mixing templates. Well the truth is I don’t really use mixing templates which may be a surprise. So do I just start everything from scratch? The short answer is yes but […]
Continue readingMixing Hip Hop Drums with Chris Carter
When it comes to mixing hip hop drums, Chris is no stranger to getting the drums to crack and fill up the speakers, everything you would expect in a good hip hop track. In this interview/tutorial we go deep into a mixing session of his as he explores what he did to achieve the final […]
Continue readingMixing Clean Electric Guitars
For this Mix Lesson I am focusing on a clean electric guitar that comes in the Pre Chorus as well as the second half of the chorus. I have been asked by a number of people to cover the topic of electric guitars in more of my articles and videos but have never really found […]
Continue readingCreating an Automatic Gain Compensation Plug-in
Isn’t it annoying when you’re adding a plug-in to your mix but there isn’t any gain compensation to account for the increase of overall output gain? It’s hard to tell if the sound is actually getting better or if it’s just getting louder. In an ideal world it would be nice to have that automatic […]
Continue readingAutomating Harsh Frequencies out of Vocals
On almost every track that I get my hands on, there is some form of frequency control that has to be done. I’ve been doing this long enough to understand and accept that. Of course when then vocals are recorded really well there tends to be less of it but it’s usually always there. When […]
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