Exceptions and Expectations
Mixerman wraps up the Intro to his new book Musician's Survival Guide to a Killer Record by addressing your expectations.
Record with Intent. Address your F.E.A.R.
The best way to combat F.E.A.R. is to build your record with Intent.
Mindset. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Your overall mindset is crucial to manifesting a Killer Record. Sometimes the best strategy is to keep things simple.
The Intro
The beginning of Musician's Survival Guide to a Killer Record. I call it, The Intro.
Mastering and Mixing
Mixerman clears up some confusion in regards to the difference between mixing and mastering.
Discipline
Frequency are the building blocks of music, and when it comes to implementing EQ you first need to understand frequency and how to think about it in terms of music.
Musician’s Survival Guide – Table of Contents
Frequency are the building blocks of music, and when it comes to implementing EQ you first need to understand frequency and how to think about it in terms of music.
Source — Player, Room, Instrument
There is nothing more important to a recording than the Source itself. When you place a great player with a great instrument in a great room, you actually have to go out of your way to fuck up [...]
Zen Recording
Anyone who is familiar with my writings knows that I do all that I can to avoid discussing technical information beyond the very basics. There’s a very good reason for this—musical decisions are [...]
Drums – Top-Down Recording
You can simplify mixing considerably when you break the music down to its 5 basic functions, and balance accordingly.
