Treating The Master Buss
The practice files are no longer available for this video, sorry for the inconvenience. This article is focused on the Mix Buss and the processing that I used for the final stage of the mix. Now I’ve covered the topic of Mastering a Song before but since this is a pretty unique circumstance I wanted […]
Continue readingThis Plug-in Changed My Life: Blue Cat Audio MB-7 Mixer 2
That’s right, The Blue Cat Audio MB-7 Mixer V2 has changed my life! If you regularly follow me and like to check out the session downloads that I offer, you can expect to see the MB-7 Mixer a lot in the future, especially in the premium tutorials. I have moments where I find plug-ins that […]
Continue readingMixing Vocals with Ghislain Brind’Amour (Part 2 of 2)
Okay so we are back in action for part 2 of Mixing Vocals with Ghislain Brind’Amour. If you haven’t checked out part 1 go do that now because it leads into what we will be talking about today. In part 1 we discussed all the processing that went in to getting the overall tone of […]
Continue readingMixing Vocals with Ghislain Brind’Amour (Part 1 of 2)
With the success of my last two articles with Ghislain “Gee” Brind’Amour, I decided to reach out to him again to see if he would be interested in doing something a little bit different . My idea was to do an interview/tutorial (all in one) where I would focus specifically on one part of a song […]
Continue readingManaging Bass in a Mixing Session
The multi-track session files for this tutorial are no longer available, sorry for the inconvenience. I decided to go with the bottom end for this tutorial because in this particular record I had to go above and beyond what I would normally do to get my bass to work. On top of that the […]
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Mixing Before You Mix: Finding the Right Combination
This is one of those little rant-like posts. This is made for anyone who does their own projects from start to finish. If you mix more than you produce or record you should probably check out my post Fix It in the Mix – You Don’t Need Perfect Recordings. In all honesty you have a […]
Continue readingFREE Plugin: VOS Thrillseeker VBL (Vintage Broadcast Limiter)
Variety of Sound does it again. The newest addition to the plugin family is the Thrillseeker VBL (Vintage Broadcast Limiter). Just when you think it can’t get any better, it does and the best part is that all his plugins are FREE – including this one. This plugin is an emulation of the the early […]
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4 Things That Help Me Mix the Low End
Once you feel like you are starting to understand this whole mixing shtick, it almost always feels like there’s one thing that you just can’t figure out. What am I talking about? Mixing the low end, of course. Now the low end could mean a million different things to a million different people but for […]
Continue readingHow to Mix Acoustic Guitars
The session files are currently unavailable for this tutorial, sorry for any inconvenience. What We are Working With The guitars in the Session were playing through out the entire record; basically a 4 bar loop. Something that plays that much throughout a song can become pretty boring. You need to have a strong vocal and […]
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