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Checking mixes on as many systems as possible
Yesterday I was mixing a song and when I was happy with the results on my monitors I bounced it played it on two sets of headphones, an MP3 player with a set of portable headphones, a laptop’s built-in speakers, my Mac’s built-in speakers and my car.
That helped me to assess some details of the mix that [...]
Air’s Sexy Boy
Remember my last post? I used Air’s Sexy Boy as an example of sound layering which I like. It turns out that yesterday I saw them playing live at Wireless Festival in Hyde Park. It was an excellent performance that I enjoyed enthusiastically and as a bonus I witnessed how the layering bass in that [...]
Layering sounds
If you’re bored of using the same sounds as everyone else then considering layering sounds. It’s an extremely useful technique to achieve interesting results with little effort and investment.
Yesterday I created a guitar solo for the intro of the new song I’m working on and recorded two versions of it. The first one using an [...]
Improvements in my mixing skills
Yesterday I created a second take on the mix of the first assignment for the course in mixing that I started a month ago. It’s a hip hop song. I’m starting to see some quality improvements in my mixing skills, the mix sounds now like a track you could dance to in a club.
Boosting the kick, snare and bass, cleaning [...]
Need more than 72 audio tracks in Logic?
I was mixing a song las week. To set it up I’d drag the audio files to the arrange windows mapping each audio file to an audio track using the Track>Create command from the Arrange window to add more tracks to the arrange window as I needed them. When I reached 72 tracks Track>Create wouldn’t add any more. So I went to the Preferences>Audio [...]
The secret to a pro sound
If you could choose between the latest software synth or a better trained ears what would you choose?
If you chose the synth keep reading.
Do you think achieving professional results is only possible with equipment only available in commercial studios (ie. a big mixing console)?
If you answered yes then keep reading.
I partly thought like you until recently. [...]
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