When I’m producing for an artist, it’s important to find out their goals, listen to their reference tracks and have a good pre-production session – all of this before I start building the initial track. I’m setting things up for success & staying on track. What are your goals for your next song or album? Work with me on your songs. I help solo artists, singer-songwriters and bands to sound better than they imagined.
Tag: music production
MIXING & PRODUCTION FOR ‘MATCHES’ BY MADE ESCAPE – BEFORE AND AFTER
Headphones on for this one. A joy to produce & mix this gorgeous, clever and poignant ballad by Made Escape. Adding soft & ethereal synths, trip hop inspired drums, vocal plate reverb & using filters to control the emotional dynamics. . Matches by Made Escape is out now as part of her brilliant debut album Good As It Gets.
Whoops! Wrong plugin (but a great mixing trick!)
One little mixing ‘trick’ for ya drums using Logic Pro stock clip distortion plugin.
One little goal of mine is to share useful, simple and not too ‘textbook’ production & mixing ideas. I want to inspire & exchange ideas with self-recording, self-producing artists & songwriters.
I’m self taught and always enjoy those little nuggets that I can adapt to my needs. In what other ways could you use this plugin? Comment below.
first time recording some slap bass!
GUITAR MIXING TECHNIQUE – REVERB A TONE SHAPING TOOL
So it turns out you can shape the tone of an instrument in a mix – in this case electric guitars – by processing the reverb. Room reverb is one of my favourite things to use in a mix to unify it and create a sense of depth and realness. This technique was partly inspired by the band The Walkmen who’s guitar sound is heavily dosed in bright reverb. Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas about how to use reverb as a tone shaping tool.
Most musicians are making this mistake when recording themselves
Why Julian Casablancas from The Strokes didn’t like Rick Rubin’s vocal sound
YOU’RE DOING YOUR CLAPS WRONG
SIMPLE WAY TO BIGGER GUITARS
When double tracking guitars, if you use two different guitars, pickups, amps, cabs, mics – basically a different guitar tone – you will get a bigger final sound compared with just using the same sound twice.
Steve Baker 