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.
Tag: music production
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.
MASTERING DOESN’T HAVE TO BE COMPLEX (i’m not a mastering engineer)
WHY i think rick beato is wrong about music fans…
Rick Rubin & Rick Beato chat about all sorts of brilliant, insightful & interesting musical things on the podcast Tetragrammaton.
Highly recommend giving it a listen!
Rick Beato’s comment about streaming leading to a disconnect between music and fans and it’s been devalued. I can see where he’s coming from, but…
I just see so much evidence around me of passionate music fans buying vinyl / CDs, going to shows, geeking out (being nerdy) and also using streaming to check out new music.
I think instead of seeing it like streaming has led to a loss of passion or connection to music, or a devaluing, I believe that there is simply more people, more listening / ways to listen, more access and WAY more music being made without the need for a huge budget to recoup costs (ie, no huge marketing & PR selling the story of the band to millions of people via radio, TV, magazines etc).
Old school music fans were sold the products with very sophisticated and expensive ad campaigns and the bands became global stars. Now it’s different, but the passion from the fans is still there. It’s just there are smaller ad budgets and literally tens of thousands more bands & artists. What do you think? And yes, I did use Rick’s tactic of trying a baiting video title!
Steve Baker 