Welcome back to How to Mix a Hip Hop Vocal & Instrumental. In this article we will be exploring what was done to the actual Instrumental while mixing this record. What are we trying to achieve? So there were a couple issues with the beat that we needed to address but we had to be careful because the goal was […]
Continue readingThis is the introdution to the newest series I put together called How to Mix a Hip Hop Vocal & Instrumental. In this series I use mostly stock plugins but I also feature the new Manny Marroquin Signature Series Plugin Bundle by Waves. I tried to find a way to do the entire mix with […]
Continue readingToday, I wanted to talk about finding the tempo of an instrumental in Pro Tools. This is probably the first thing I do when I get a session that has a two track instrumental with multiple vocal tracks. It’s important to the process of mixing and tracking because it helps with: Copy and paste functions […]
Continue readingFirst I just wanted to put it out there that this post is not about having a love affair with subtractive EQ because I do boost a lot. I’m just trying to give another alternative to boosting and sweeping. Don’t boost and sweep? So everything I have learned about finding problem frequencies is completely wrong? […]
Continue readingI wanted to cover this a bit because it is a segue into my next video project. M/S processing is also referred to as Mid/Side processing. So in order to not confuse people and also to not embarrass myself, I’ll be giving a pretty basic explanation. Another reason is because I don’t like to complicate […]
Continue readingSo lets sum it all up: PART 1 – We talked about using compression like sand paper PART 2 – We talked about how to use the compressor to push sounds behind the vocals PART 3 – We discussed how to use a limiter to keep a vocal part in check (Peak Limiting) So in […]
Continue readingWhen we think of how to mix our kick and bass, the first thing that usually comes to mind is… how are we going to treat the extreme low-end sub frequencies? Although it is important to get the low-end right, I believe that that is just the tip of the iceberg for the kick […]
Continue readingThe other 3 parts in this compression series: PART 1: Compressing Vocals PART 1 (Sand Paper Theory) PART 2: Compressing Vocals Part 2 (Ducking) PART 4: Compressing Vocals PART 4 (Parallel Compression) Welcome back! So in Part 1 of this compression series we discussed the theory of using a compressor like sand paper and in […]
Continue readingThis plugin actually did much more than I expected. However It’s a bit on the technical side, which is a bummer. I really think that manufacturers should keep plugins as simple as possible yet still be able to push boundaries. None the less, they have a lot of presets which should keep you busy. This […]
Continue readingThe other 3 parts in this compression series: PART 1: Compressing Vocals PART 1 (Sand Paper Theory) PART 3: Compressing Vocals PART 3 (Limiting) PART 4: Compressing Vocals PART 4 (Parallel Compression) In Compressing Vocals PART 1 (Sand Paper Theory). We discussed how to use the compressor as if it were sand paper, helping those […]
Continue readingThe other 3 parts in this compression series: PART 2: Compressing Vocals Part 2 (Ducking) PART 3: Compressing Vocals PART 3 (Limiting) PART 4: Compressing Vocals PART 4 (Parallel Compression) When I think about when I should use compression there’s four ways that come to mind. Now at the time of this posting these are my go […]
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