Mixing and Mastering Blog
Tutorials, tips, and industry insights from a professional mixing and mastering engineer.
Proper Recording Techniques for Recording a Rap Song
There’s something uniquely frustrating about getting a vocal to sit just right in a mix. You’ve nailed the performance, the mic chain is solid, but somehow it still sounds like it’s floating on top of the track—or worse, buried beneath…
How to use Multiband Compression on Vocals
Multiband Compression is a tool I use everyday when mixing and mastering. It gives me so much control over carving and manipulating the sound. I the video tutorial below, I go over some of the ways I use multiband compression when…
4 Mixing Tips that have Nothing to do with Mixing
Great mixes don’t just come from compressors and EQ curves—they come from perspective. Before you touch a single plugin, there’s a mindset you need to step into. One that focuses on intention, honesty, and emotional connection. Because at the end…
3 things to do before Sending your Songs to get mixed
Introduction: So Your Songs Are Ready for the World You’ve written the lyrics, recorded the parts, and lived with the demo long enough to know it’s finally ready. Whether your song is headed for Spotify, Apple Music, the radio,…
Top 10 Mixing and Mastering Blogs
We’re lucky to live in a time when top-tier music production knowledge is just a click away. When I was getting started, the only way to truly learn how to mix and master was by going to school, interning at…
How To Take Reverb Off Audio Files
Introduction: Why You Might Need to Remove Reverb in the First Place Reverb can be a beautiful thing. When used intentionally, it adds space, dimension, and a sense of realism to a recording. But when it’s baked into a…
3 Ways to make your Home Studio Sound Professional
3 Ways to Make Your Home Studio Sound Professional (That Don’t Involve Buying New Gear) Many people believe that buying expensive gear and plugins will give them the tools to create the album of their dreams. We see advertisements…
How to Record Vocals at Home
It is so easy to record vocals at home these days. All you really need is a mic, a computer and your ready to go. The only problem is you don’t have a engineer that can set the mic and levels…
Soundtoys Tutorial
Soundtoys makes some of the most musical plugins in the game, and I reach for them on literally every single mix. Whether I’m adding punch to drums, width to vocals, or creating wild delay effects, these tools are essential to…
How To Make A Chorus Sound Bigger
One of the questions I get asked the most by clients is how to make a chorus sound bigger. Many people believe there’s a special plugin or effect that will suddenly make their chorus sound huge and epic. Unfortunately, that’s…