EQ Distorted Guitars: Mixing Ear Pleasing and Smooth Guitars Distorted Guitars can easily sound nasty and harsh. Of course, this is not what you want. You want ear pleasing and smooth tones, even though the guitars are heavily distorted. With this EQ technique, you remove all the harshness and nastiness out of your […]
Mixing Fat and Punchy Snare Drum Mixing fat and punchy snare drum is quite quick and easy job to do, once you have a decent sounding snare to start with. All you need is an EQ and a compressor and you’re good to go. This is how to mix fat and punchy snare […]
Faster Mixing with Mix Template (and Better Results) Are you starting every mix session from an empty project? No more. Mixing becomes much faster with a mix template. Save your time and energy for the stuff that matters, such as artistic musical choices instead of the mechanical tasks that has to be done […]
How Much Changing Guitar and Bass Strings Affects the Sound? (Before and After Comparison) It is recommended to change guitar and bass strings before starting the recording process of a song. While it’s easy to just say “change the strings, because it will sound better”, I wanted to demonstrate how much it actually […]
How to Record Fast Lead & Solo Guitar(and Sound Like Pro) Recording fast guitar solos and lead parts can be tricky, as you want the timing to be spot on and at the same time as natural as possible. There’s no room for mistakes or sloppiness in today’s music. Because of “the feel […]
Hard-Hitting Mix: Snare Reverb & Saturation This is the fifth follow up video for “4 Steps to Make Mixes Hit Hard” and it’s about snare reverb and saturation. By far we have gone all the four steps: Record tight and well played instrument tracks Edit EQ Compression Let’s build on that with snare reverb […]
Hard-Hitting Mix: Compression (Step 4/4) This is the fourth follow up video for “4 Steps to Make Mixes Hit Hard” and it’s all about compression. In the step one we recorded tight guitar and bass tracks whereas in the second step we edited the them. It’s time to continue mixing the tracks (step three […]
Hard-Hitting Mix: EQ (Step 3/4) This is the third follow up video for “4 Steps to Make Mixes Hit Hard” and it’s all about EQing. In the step one we recorded tight guitar and bass tracks whereas in the second step we edited the them. Now it’s time to start mixing. We’re focusing on […]
Hard-Hitting Mix: Editing (Step 2/4) This is the second follow up video for “4 Steps to Make Mixes Hit Hard”. In the step one we recorded tight guitar and bass tracks. Now it’s time to take those well played and recorded tracks to the next level with editing. The purpose of this is […]
Hard-Hitting Mix: Recording Tight Guitar and Bass Tracks (Step 1/4) This is a follow up video for “4 Steps to Make Mixes Hit Hard”. In this video I’m focusing entirely to the step one, which is recording hard-hitting and tight instrument tracks. It is the foundation for hard-hitting mix. Make sure you don’t […]
