In the short run, mixing through a stereo 2-bus compressor takes practice and can prove nothing short of maddening. In the long run, it will likely make your life easier.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Check out what Eric "Mixerman" Sarafin has to say about the RAVEN LOGIC PRO X 2.0 software release. Watch him use the multi-touch faders, tweak plugins, execute Batch Commands and more!
The band consists of the four most dislikable human beings you can imagine. The singer is vain and pretentious. The guitarist is a serious depressive. The drummer is as “dumb as cotton,” and the [...]
Horn sections can be equally as frustrating to record as strings. Any time you put together a section, you’re hindered by your weakest link. The best protection is to seek out a section that [...]
Every balance decision that you make affects the mix in an equal and opposite manner, particularly as it relates to what comes next in the song. You should always think of balance in purely [...]