Headphones For Recording
One of the most common questions I see is "what are the best studio headphones for recording?" and I'm afraid there isn't a simple...
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Adam Whittaker
Feb 9, 20224 min
Surviving The Pandemic in Music
This was an article I wrote back in 2020 when we all thought this pandemic thing was going to only be a few months, little did we know. I...
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Adam Whittaker
Feb 2, 20223 min
Choosing Your Mix Engineer
Can you afford for your music to be released and sound average, or even worse not ever released? Time to hire a mixer.
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Adam Whittaker
Jan 26, 20223 min
Rock Climbing Part Two
Back in the dark ages (the 90’s) music magazines, to music kids like me were as important almost as the music.
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Adam Whittaker
Jan 12, 20223 min
Rock Climbing Part One
Rock Climbing is going to be part of a series that discusses what you, as an artist can, and should be doing to promote yourselves.
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Adam Whittaker
Jan 12, 20223 min
Your Mindset Vs Success
Today's post is a short pep talk about where your head is. As I have tried to take this amazing thing I get to do for a living and make a...
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Adam Whittaker
Jan 5, 20224 min
Adventures In Mastering
So, I finally started to make recordings that you could actually call records, and of course, was really interested in this mysterious...
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Adam Whittaker
Dec 29, 20213 min
Record Pluggers
There are only about 30 or 40 songs that typically get played on a major radio station throughout the day in differing frequencies and...
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Adam Whittaker
Dec 22, 20213 min
Songwriters Block
Unfortunately being creative is not a tap we can switch on and off. Sometimes we need inspiration and when it comes to songwriting if we...
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Adam Whittaker
Dec 15, 20213 min
What Is The Difference Between Mixing And Mastering
Many people ask the question what is the difference between mixing and mastering and I shall attempt to answer that today! Once a song is...
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Adam Whittaker
Dec 8, 20214 min
Analog Summing
By now you will realise I have been around a while, and was of the first generation that had to struggle with making computers work in...
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Adam Whittaker
Dec 1, 20215 min
How To Record Bass
As ever with any instrument, the single biggest thing helpful in getting a good bass sound is the player. But what past that?
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Adam Whittaker
Dec 1, 20214 min
How Were The Drums Recorded On Nevermind
This may be hard to believe but sometimes recording engineers and producers from back in the “good old days” don’t have the best...
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Adam Whittaker
Dec 1, 20212 min
The Art Of Recording
After some thinking, I realised that a good chunk of my mixing clients are self-recording, and I usually focus on articles that are...
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Adam Whittaker
Nov 7, 20213 min
Spotify Playlists and You.
Love to or hate it, Spotify is one of the big players in your world right now covering something like 36% of global streaming - and...
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Adam Whittaker
Oct 14, 20213 min
Top Five Reasons To Not Master The Songs You Mix
As a mixing engineer that works most of the time online these days, I often get the following message: "Hey bro, how much is a...
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Adam Whittaker
Oct 1, 20213 min
Cowboys And Beats
The idea of leasing music tracks, or "beats" as they get called nowadays is a pretty new concept, and the business hasn’t brought in new...
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Adam Whittaker
Jul 30, 20214 min
Music Copyright For Artists
I remember being in my first band, aged about 17 and super excited as the owner of a label had said he’d interested in us putting out a...
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Adam Whittaker
Jul 18, 20214 min
Six Ways To Improve Your Vocal Recordings
As a mixer that gets all kinds of recordings if you asked me the single thing that is the biggest difference in home and pro studio...
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Adam Whittaker
Jun 26, 20215 min
Should you spend your money on a mixer OR a mastering engineer?
If you had a limited budget which should you choose: mixing OR mastering?
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