Mixing and mastering are crucial steps in producing a professional-sounding song or album. However, they are often misunderstood or overlooked by amateur musicians and producers. Mixing is the process of blending and balancing all the individual tracks of a…
How to Find and Hire the Perfect Mixing Engineer for Your Tracks As a mixing and mastering engineer, my role in the music production process is both practical and creative. I take raw recordings and work on them to bring…
Introduction: Why Professional Sound Matters Every single day, more than 100,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify. That means your heartfelt track—recorded in your bedroom or basement studio—is competing with an avalanche of new music daily. Listeners and playlist curators…
Today I want to share my daily routine as a mixing engineer. I work from home, specifically from my garage studio. It’s double-walled and sound-isolated so that the sound quality is great, and it doesn’t disturb anyone in my house…
So you want to be a music superstar? It’s not as difficult as you may think! Just follow these five easy steps and you’ll be on your way to getting signed to a record label in no time. First, make…
I’ve had the pleasure of working with quite a few artists who were independent but went on to sign a major label deal. I thought it might be interesting to go over how a few of them went from a indie artist to…
After years of producing, mixing, and mastering for tons of indie artists in Boston, I got the great chance to work on an album that would turn out to be the first indie album to go #1 on iTunes. Sammy…
