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 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 effect that will suddenly make their chorus sound huge and epic! Unfortunately that is not the case. While reverb, delay and other effects...
How To Make Virtual Synths Sound Warmer
Virtual synths are great. You get tons of sounds, amazing amounts of flexibility, and you can carry them all around in a laptop. Gone are the days of shlepping around stacks of keyboards and spending hours syncing them up with MIDI. Unfortunately the only complaint is...
How to use a Pultec EQ
The Pultec Eq is a legendary passive eq that's been used for decades on countless hit records . It was built in 1951 by Ollie Summerland and Gene Shank. The EQP-1A was there flagship unit and was hand built; which is why they still stand up to the test of time....
5 Things Artists Should Know About Record Deals
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 Adams's album blew up overnight! Next thing I knew we were on a...
The difference between mono and stereo tracks
When I first started working in studios the difference between mono and stereo was much clearer. Part of the reason was track count, sometimes you only had 24 to 48 tracks for all your music and vocals. So if a kick drum was only one channel you wanted to make sure...
How to make songs the same volume
When presenting your music you want to make sure it sounds the best it can. One of the main concerns is to make sure that the volume is the same. I highly recommended you get this done by a professional mastering engineer, but if you can't afford it or don't have the...
Setting up a Tempo Based Reverb
One thing you have plenty of options with is reverb. There are Halls, Plates, Springs, Chambers, Rooms, Ambiance and everything in between. It's hard to know where to begin. I like to start with a few different kinds of reverb and then narrow it down to the one's I...
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...
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