music

Setting up your room

How to set up and treat your room for mixing. Perhaps the most important element in recording and mixing music is being able to properly hear exactly what you are working on. This has to do with a lot of things like choice and placement of speakers, room shape and size, listening position, and amount [...]

Album credits

A lot of people love music, but not a lot of people pay attention to the credits on an album. Or, if they do, they aren’t sure what these people did to make the album happen. So I thought I’d explain some of these titles a little. Producer – Most of the time the producer [...]

Studio Update

Recently, Your Boy Tom Tom signed to a local record label, Make Way Productions. Since then they have also signed me on as a producer and engineer. On Monday we will begin discussing the production of Tom Tom’s album. Thursday night we had a session with a metal band, Legion of Ravens. They rocked pretty [...]

My musical journey thus far…

… Hopefully it’s not too boring Allow me to get a little nostalgic here, hopefully someone is interested. My love for music began when I was a young boy. In the early 90’s I had a walkman and some tapes that I loved to rock out to, some of my first musical memories are of [...]

Top 5 ‘Ah-ha!’ moments

So far, these are some of the best realizations I’ve had when it comes to mixing music. Ease off the effects a bit. When I started I was drenching tracks with effects and processors. I was going overboard with stuff like reverb, compression, and eq. It just made it sound worse than if I had [...]