Online Mixing and Mastering Tutorials
Learn Mixing and Mastering Tips from Top Mixing and Mastering Engineer Matty Harris.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!
How to Prepare Your Songs for Mastering
Mastering is the last step in your recording process. It's the final polish, the time to add sparkle to the highs, tame the lows, and make sure it will stand up comparably in quality and loudness to commercially released music. So it's very important that you send the...
The Best way to Record Vocals at Home
The two biggest issues that come up when clients send vocal files they recorded at home are distortion and room noise. Hard surfaces create reverb reflections that bounce all over the room and back into the mic. This makes a real unpleasant "reverby room" sound that...
Mastering Tricks Using Ozone 5
Ozone 5 is a great tool for mastering. I don't use every feature on it, but I do use a few. In the video below I go over the one's I use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_5gri99kP0
How to Convert MIDI to Audio
Check out this quick video I made on how to convert MIDI instruments to audio. It's pretty straight forward, but if you haven't done it before this could be helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raUcNFDZUe4
How to Separate a Drum Loop
If you make beats with drum loops, you might be familiar with the limitations you have when it comes to mixing. If the kick or snare is to loud your stuck with it. However, there are a few things you can do to separate the sounds by frequency to make level...
The Two Most Important Things About a Mix
The two most important things about a mix are volume and panning. That is what about 40% of your mix is all about. This is where you get your levels, and give every instrument it's own space. It's easy to get lost with all the new gear that promises "this plugin will...
Creating Drake’s Marvins Room Reverb Effect
I was mixing a song for one of my clients, and thought it would be cool to use the same kind of delayed reverb effect Drake did on Marvin's room. It didn't really work out for the song but I thought it would make for a great tutorial, so check it out....
Parallel Kick Compression
Getting your kick to stand out in a mix can be a tricky subject, but when done properly it can really help out a mix. There are multiple ways you can setup your parallel compression. You can create a send and a return, or duplicate the track. The real trick is to...
How To Use Automation In Pro Tools
Quick video on volume, pan, and effect automation in Pro Tools. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiJP07wewqs
How to Create a Radio Edit of Your Song
So you got your song all mixed and you can't wait to put it out, but the only problem is you have one swear word( or many) and radio won't play it. Luckily there are many ways you can edit swear words to make the song still sound natural. The best time to do it is...
Setting Up Virtual Instruments in Pro Tools
Never used virtual instruments in pro tools? I made a quick video on how to setup, and use virtual instruments. I also go over how to convert them to audio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvNCi9Zspo
Setting up a Pro Tools Mix Template
This week I go over how I set up a Pro Tools session before I start a new mix or song. Being organized is huge when it comes to mixing and mastering, so make sure to check this out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuai2_Fun3Q
How to Create the Phone Effect
Today I wanna go over a real simple effect, that I use a lot. It's the telephone effect, which does exactly what it sounds like, makes you voice sound like it's on a telephone. I use this when mixing ad lib tracks and on the intro to songs sometimes....
Hip-Hop Vocal Effects
Leaving off where the last post ended on EQ and Compression, I wanted to talk about effects I use for Hip-Hop Vocals. Hip-Hop Vocals are usually pretty dry but in the video I show you how you can use slap delay, harmonizer and light reverb to make them stick out in...
How to Release a Mixtape
So you got your songs mixed and mastered (by a pro I hope) and your ready to release your 1st mixtape. But what do you do now? There are tons of sites you can release it on. datpiff.com, djbooth.net, and livemixtapes are great places to start. Also if you want to...
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