145: Building Arrangements With The Mix In Mind (Part 2)

Part 2: Writing and arranging your songs properly so that they work, even raw, is essential.In this second part we dive in to arranging lead parts, vocals, synths

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How To Get Your Low End Right (BEFORE Mixing)

Getting the low end right is one of the most important and most difficult things in music production. Not because it’s technically hard to do, but because it

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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Record Bass Before Guitar

Many people record a band in this order:1. Drums -> 2. Bass -> 3. Guitars -> 4. Everything else -> 5. VocalsI used to do the exact same

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DIY Vocal Recording: How To Capture Killer Vocal Tracks without Fancy Gear Or Expensive Acoustic Treatment

The vocal sells the song. It's what we connect with first, it's what carries most of the emotion. So a great vocal recording is crucial if you want

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Drum Recording: What Your Performance Does To Your Drum Sound

Your performance affects the tone of your drums more than anything else. It also defines what the mixing engineer can actually do to your drum recording. In this

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Top 10 DIY-Recording Mistakes

Not sure if your recordings are ready to be mixed? Are you thinking "man, I really hope I thought of everything" before sending them off? So many home

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The Biggest Problem With DIY-Recording (And What It Has To Do With Movie Directors)

The questions I get on the topic of DIY-Recording are fantastic and I'll absolutely answer them all, but there is one fundamental "problem":People almost exclusively ask technical questions.

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DIY-Recording FAQ – Episode 3: Priorities, Strings & Drumheads

The question of today’s episode is: “Do we really need to put new strings on our guitars/bass and new drumheads on our drums for recording?”I hope my answer

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DIY-Recording FAQ – Episode 2: The Key To Better Drum Recordings

This is the first video of the “DIY-Recording FAQ” series that I promised to do and today’s question is: “When it comes to guitars and bass, should we

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DIY-Recording FAQ – Episode 1: Amp vs DI

This is the first video of the “DIY-Recording FAQ” series that I promised to do and today’s question is: “When it comes to guitars and bass, should we

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