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This week everyone is talking about the news that Spotify is planning to make changes to the royalty payout model early next year, with...

Whenever anyone would ask me what I did, I used to say professional babysitter. It’s not been far off the truth sometimes....

Introduction Choosing between an online mixing engineer or in-studio mixing is an important decision for musicians and producers because...

Like so many of the things indie artists have to do now as well as making great music - learning how to write a music bio is a key one!

As we head through 2024 streaming playlists and music blogs are still some of the most important resources we in the indie community...

Recording acoustic drums is one of those things that people seem to think is difficult but is also one of the most fun. I’ll cover...

As a mix engineer, sometimes I get asked about my mixing process when it comes to album mixing. Doing a single mix is one thing - but how do I approach album mixing as a concept? The annoying answer is of course "it depends" but there IS a technique I use quite often which we'll cover today. I don't use this EVERY time, but it's one concept. I got approached by a producer friend to mix an album of retro TV themes. He's a very skilled guy and has lots of experience putting th

First, simply use the right tool for the job. Any guitar tone is a combination of three things: The player, the guitar, and the amp....

When I first started working from my own small studio everything I mixed was too bass heavy even though it sounded totally fine there...

I have good news and bad news. Yes, there are many professionally designed rooms in the world, and most of those really do sound good. There are many MORE rooms that don't that some call studios, which I call "rooms with some gear in them".

Saturation, for lack of a better definition is typically very mild distortion, also referred to as “coloration”, “vibe” “flavour” and...

Don’t be Preset F**ker. Use the workflow, sure… but stretch your horizons to make better records on the way...

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...

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...

Can you afford for your music to be released and sound average, or even worse not ever released? Time to hire a mixer.

Back in the dark ages (the 90’s) music magazines, to music kids like me were as important almost as the music.

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.

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...

The Reality of Audio Mastering: Voodoo Magic vs. a Great Mix So, I finally started to make recordings that you could actually call records, and of course, was really interested in this mysterious "mastering" thing. That is - the disproportionately expensive process of taking the final mixes that you or I slaved over for hours and tweaking them so they miraculously "sound like a record" and supposedly translate well to any playback system. In about 15 minutes. Max. Today, sure