music production tips

Neve 8078 vintage console for sale

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Neve 8078 for sale. We are asking $350,000 for this HIGHLY customized perfect vintage gem. The console is located at Threshold Sound in Santa Monica CA. Please contact me from my contact page if you would like to make an offer and/or an appointment to view this very rare and gorgeous sounding console. Please do [...]

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Low-end Bass Power

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Low end bass build up = weak bass Take a kick drum and a bass line for instance. The kick is typically a consistent quick low note stab over and over again, and it is a note btw. But the bass synth/guitar line lows are always moving around because the notes change. E1 is deeper [...]

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Mixing warm with digital or analog

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I have received many questions over the last few months asking how to achieve a warm analog mix in the digital domain and how to reduce high-end harshness. I do have a couple cures for that but let me first reply that I make no distinction between digital and analog formats anymore. As a matter [...]

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Mix in Mono, then Pan

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Here’s a simple trick I use occasionally when I’m having trouble dialing in a tricky mix with lots of tracks. Simply get your mix close enough in mono and “then” spread your pans and continue to tweak. Be aware that you may have cut a little more lows and low mids than needed. Just sneak [...]

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Too much recording compression

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I mix a lot of home recorded material and the number one most difficult problem that I have the most trouble dealing with is over compressed tracks. You must know that recording engineer professionals use no compression or very little compression when they record even for the biggest recording artists. If you’re doing it just [...]

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How To become a Mixing Engineer

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Is there a guide on How To Become A Mixing Engineer? Can becoming a professional mixing engineer be fun? Where do the best mixing engineers come from? These are a few of the questions I’ve received this month on the subject. First, is there a “how to become a mix engineer” guide ? No, I [...]

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Guide to mixing music remotely online

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1. How to prepare your tracks for mixing 2. How to deliver your mix audio files w FTP 3. How to use the online remote mix system

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