A drum kit is a diverse conglomeration of sounds and textures that can be very difficult to capture and mix. No other instrument presents the audio engineer with as many potential sonic landmines as a multi-mic’d drum kit does.
Because a drum kit consists of so many separate components, it Read more...
What’s better, a feed-forward compressor or a feedback compressor?
In order to debate this rarely thought about and rarely understood issue, we need to know how a compressor works to begin with.
In the case of many analog compressors, the component in charge of regulating the level is a simple Read more...
There’s no question that mixing drums can be a difficult task. If you type “mixing drums” into Google, you are rewarded with 34 million results which will offer you varying degrees of usefulness. There are so many conflicting opinions on this subject that wading through all of them can be Read more...
If you’re like me, you start making panning decisions for instruments early on in the music production process.
Many of us assign each new element to an initial starting point in the left-right spectrum as early on as the recording stage, planning to tweak positions later on during mixing.
Once Read more...
Does the thought of organizing your sprawling sample library make your stomach churn? If it does, then perfect, because I’m going to be showing you how you can turn that horrible nausea-inducing mess of Vengeance and Cymatics samples into a neat and tidy sample library.
As the size of your Read more...
