In this video, we dive into the art of mixing as storytelling. Just like a movie, a great mix guides the listener through an emotional journey, using dynamics, effects, and layering to create impactful moments. Learn how to build emotion with dynamic changes, set the scene with carefully chosen e...
This video shares 3 mix loudness techniques that will help you get seriously louder mixes in general and on streaming platforms like Spotify. If you're struggling to get LOUD mixes, this video is for you. We'll talk about perceived loudness, some mixing techniques like clipping, saturation, and m...
In this video, Alex shows you how to create 3 must-know vocal mixing effects from scratch that can instantly level up your production and make it more interesting. Alex breaks down delay throws, formant shifting, telephone vocals, stutter effects, and more!
Today, we're diving into the latest in AI vocals with a tool called Audimee - and most interesting, it’s recent update involving tuning and how this opens up a lot of new possibilities for your vocal productions with now, more convenience than ever. Freaky right? Absolutely. I’ve run a ton of hum...
In this video, I share the ProTools setting that literally saved my entire recording session! 🎶 I ran into a common issue where I needed to add more time in the middle of the song to create a double chorus, but the catch was, I had a ton of automation and detailed edits that weren't going to be e...
This video shows how to build a professional mixing template from scratch, using techniques including busses/bussing, input and output routing, and shares some mixing tips and tricks using signal flow to set up your mix session for success. This is demonstrated inside of Pro Tools, but the techni...
This video includes 6 mixing tips that were turning points in my career. These 6 mixing tips ranging from understanding the frequency spectrum to vocal mixing, to room treatment, saturation, clipping & more, have made a huge difference in the results of my mixes and taking them from amateur to pr...
This video is about using a magic distortion trick to enhance vocals. In this example we're looking at vocal reverb and delay, and using saturation and distortion to enhance it. We talk about the balance of the mix, the vocal mix, and share some more tips and tricks along the way.
This video shows some of the great features inside of Fabfilter ProQ3, and a side-chain trick using a button I wish I knew sooner. This is a cool trick, that is easy to do, and a great solution to using dynamic EQ and compression to deal with frequency masking. Here we use side-chaining kick and ...
This video shows how to clip gain volume edit vocals instantly using a trick inside of Melodyne. This will save you a lot of time when editing and mixing vocals if you do volume editing before compression and processing.
In this video, I'll show you a clipping plugin that is based on a famous piece of analog a/d conversion mastering hardware. Gold Clip by Schwabe digital has brought some great sounding analog clipping to the digital world, and I will show you all the features of the plugin, including the types of...
In this video, we cover the Slate Digital ML-1 Modelling Microphone, the new Strongroom Studio mic pack, and the Classic Tubes 3 Pack. We even mix the vocal recording together using Slate Digital Plugins. The ML-1 is on sale for the month of March and it comes with the Strongroom pack as part of ...