Mixing and Mastering Tutorials
The Mix & Master My Song Blog.I love to help people when they ask me questions about mixing and mastering. So I thought it would be helpful to make blog with mixing and mastering tutorials to help artist at home learn some tricks and tips to make their songs better. Mixing and Mastering has taken me years to master, and I have had a lot of help along the way. These videos and articles are my small way of giving back. Leave a commit if you have any questions and I answer as fast as I can!
Brainworx Masterdesk Review
I'm a sucker for all in one mixing and mastering plugins. So when the Brainworx Masterdesk came out, I was one of the first to download the trial. This plugin is an all in one Mastering chain. I think its geared towards the home studio owner who needs to polish off a...
25 Inspirational Music Quotes for Musicians
Working in the music business can bring its fair share of ups and downs. I need more than one hand to count the times I wanted to give up. However, the love of music has always won out. If your going through one of those periods or wanting to give up, here are 25...
How to Prepare your Vocals for Mixing
Mixing your song can be an overwhelming challenge. It's hard to know where to start. Should you mix the drums first or start with the vocals? What effects should you put on?? Ugh! I think it's best to try a minimalist approach. The less plugin and...
How to Pick a Online Mixing and Mastering Service
One might think I'm a bit bias writing this article seeing how I run an online mixing and mastering service. However, I started this company five years ago with the idea of helping upcoming artists, not trying to scam them. I've had clients tell me about some of the...
The 3 Best Mastering Plugins
Plugins. Plugins, Plugins.... So many to choose from these days, I can't even keep track! However, I seem to always come back to a few workhorses over and over again. The Fab Filter ProQ is an all-time favorite, as well as the UAD 1176. ( Or any 1176 plug for that...
Mixing and Mastering with Acustica Audio’s Water Tutorial
As many of you know, I am a big fan of Acustica Audio's Plugins. So, of course, I had to review the Water plugin. The Water plugin is an emulation of the German WSW (Wiener Schwachstrom Werke) equalizer and compressor. It was the Austrian branch of Siemens Audio. It's...
How To Mix Crisp Vocals
Have you heard about the vocal barbeque? We need it brighter, more air! Those vocals need to cut through!! Deep fry those vox tracks!! Nowadays in popular music, the vocals are bright, trebly, and the most in dominating part of the song. But how do we get such a...
Acustica Audio Ruby Tutorial
Acustica Audio's Ruby is an emulation of the D.W. Fearn VT-5. According to their website, the equalizer uses passive LC circuitry with class-A triode vacuum tube stages for the input and output. I found this EQ to be super musical and loved the fact that you only get...
Trinnov ST2 Pro Vs Sonarworks
The Trinnov ST2 Pro and Sonarworks are both room correction equalizers. The Trinnov ST2 comes as a piece of hardware whereas Sonarworks works on your host computer. They both are great products but the Trinnov costs about $5000 more than the Sonarworks. Why, might you...
3 Hits and Misses in Studio One 4
We all know that I am a super fan of Presonus Studio One. ( You can see the reason I switched from Pro Toos to Studio One Here.) So when they released Studio One 4, I was like a kid waiting for Christmas. But after it was released, I felt like the kid who didn't get...
3 Pultec EQ Tips With Acustica Audio’s Purple
The Pultec EQP-1A is quite possibly one of the most used EQ's in history and for good reason. The Pultec EQP-1A has a character and a touch of class that will leave your source material sounding super expensive and well...better than before. I use the Pultec plugin...
Top Stereo Width Plugins
Making a mono instrument stereo can help add new dimensions to any song. It can be guitars, keyboards or even percussion instruments. In mastering a common technique is to widen the side information to make the overall mix sound bigger and larger than life. Two of my...
Acustica Audio Cream Tutorial
Acustica Audio Cream is an amazing plugin. It gives the classic console sound that was made famous at studios such as Abby Road's back in the 1960's and 1970's. This is a great plugin to use for both mixing and mastering. The plugins divided into 3 sections: The...
Autotune Pro Tutorial
The new Auto-Tune Pro is really amazing. The main new feature is Auto-Key. The auto-key feature auto detects the key of the song and sends it right to the tracks with Auto-tune on it. While it doesn't pick the key of the song with 100% accuracy it's is correct 9 out...
How to use Parallel Compression in Studio One 3
Parallel Compression is a great way to make your drums, bass, and vocals stick out in the mix. I like to use Slate's Virtual Mix Rack for the simple fact that the compressor has a mix knob. However in studio one if you want to use other compressors it's super simple...
Get Big Sounding Drums with Distortion
Sometimes adding a bit of distortion can really help your drums pop out of a mix. I like to use Soundtoys Decapitator quite a bit. It can be a game changer on the snare drum. I also like to use it on parallel compression chain. I will send the kick and snare to a bus...
Use Digital Clipping to Make Your Song Louder
Everyone always thinks that louder is better. It's not always the case but you do need to have your song loud enough to compete with songs on the radio. Most people use a limiter. But using a limiter alone can make your song sound squashed. I use the technique of...
CREATE A REVERSE REVERB IN STUDIO ONE
In today's video Matty shows you how to create a reverse reverb in studio one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEujhWKjM2c
Switching from Pro Tools to Studio One? Do this First!
Switching from Pro Tools to Studio One can be a big change. Make it a little easier on yourself with the tips in the video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1o4fR6PRDM&feature=youtu.be
How to get Thicker Sounding Vocals
With so many artists using budget mics recorded in less than ideal situations we need to find ways to make the vocals sound thicker. This video shows some of the tricks Matty uses to do this!...
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