Share this Post The low end usually consists of the Kick drum, and some sort of bass instrument. This could be a typical electric or acoustic bass guitar, or some sort of synth bass. Whatever it may be, getting the kick drum and bass guitar to sit just right can be challenging. The Video below shows you one way I …
Delay Effect into Reverb Effect – Awesome Results!
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Slapback Delay – A must have on Vocals and Guitars
Share this Post When you think of delay, you probably think of yelling down a long canyon and hearing your voice repeat over and over. In my mind that’s an echo. That’s what a slapback delay is, except it’s one single echo. One single repeat of the original signal. It’s more like you clap while standing in a small alley …
Using Pre Delay To Add Clarity To Your Mix
Share this Post What a pre delay does is control the amount of time between when you hear the original signal end and reverb begin. If you set your pre delay to 0, then there will be no distinct separation between the original signal and the audible reverb. The best example in my opinion is using it on a vocal …
Mixing Rap Vocals To Cut Through The Mix
Share this Post photo by www.thalspot.com I believe EQ is you best friend when tryingto get a vocal track(s) to sit within a stereo music track. By stereo music track I mean track this a compilation of all the elements of the song already bounced down to 1 stereo track. So the drums, pads, background vocals, etc… etc… are already …
How LCR Panning Can Lead To Better Mixes And Recordings (Debatable!)
Share this Post LCR panning is one of those ways I stumbled across when I first started out. LCR stands for: Left, Center, Right Meaning you can only pan your tracks hard left or right, and up the middle. THATS IT! Why!? That’s stupid… Why would you only use left, center, or right when you have all the stereo space in …
Reverse Guitar Swell Trick
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Chris Lord-Alge On How To Mix A Song
Share this Post Chris lord-alge is a power house of a mix engineer who has mixed countless hit records for the likes of The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, James Brown, Green Day, Slipknot, and many many more. I always wondered how a mix engineer like CLA can mix so many genres and have hits in all of them. I really …
Sometimes Dramatic Mixing Moves Is What It Takes
Share this Post Sometimes we, that includes me, get caught up in the visual aspect of mixing instead of the audible aspect WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT! We are mixing music aren’t we?! In todays digital world, we see everything we are working on. If you pull up a parametric EQ, odds are it will have a graphic on the screen …