As an amateur home studio enthusiast, you may have encountered a common issue: your overhead tracks sound great, but there’s just too much snare bleed. This leakage can muddy your mix, making it difficult to achieve the clarity you desire. Fortunately, there’s a technique you can use to gain better control over this leakage and Read More …
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Perfecting Snare Delay Timing for a Cohesive Mix
To achieve a polished mix, it’s essential to time your free delay to the BPM of your song. This ensures that the delay complements the snare without clouding the overall sound. Avoid processing the snare drums separately from the other instruments, as this can disrupt the cohesion of your mix. To get the timing just Read More …
Unleashing Snare Definition
As a home studio enthusiast, I’ve discovered that achieving the perfect snare sound can sometimes come from unexpected methods. Today, I want to share a unique approach to using a compressor that can help you get the snare definition you’re looking for. First, I start by playing the song and focusing on the snare. To Read More …
Expanding Your Bass Sound
As a home studio enthusiast, I often find myself in situations where the bass needs to stand out, especially when working with synth bass or imagine it is a power trio setup. The challenge is to create a wider sound without losing the essential low-end presence that keeps the mix balanced. Today, I want to Read More …
New Lyrics :: Golden Brown
The music for the most part is done, and just really doing final tweeks to those. Started to record vocals today, as I am good with where the lyrics are at right now. The verses are from my time working restaurant jobs. They tell of my experience, emotions, and the things I specifically remember from Read More …
Studio Classwork :: 808 Beat
This song was from the Andrew Huang Studio course that I did. This is the first of the 3 songs that you work on during his course. I did know about recording instruments a little, so there is a lot of bass in this song. In fact, at least a 1/3 of the track is Read More …
What R U Practicing – Come and Get Your Love – Redbone
What are you practicing this lately…? “Come and Get Your Love” is a song by American rock band Redbone. The song was originally released as a promo track under the name “Hail” and was later featured on their fifth album, Wovoka (1973), under its current name. The song was released as the album’s first single Read More …
What R U Practicing – Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie – ABBA
What are you practicing this lately…? “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme!_Gimme!_Gimme!_(A_Man_After_Midnight)” is a song by Swedish band ABBA. It was recorded in August 1979 in order to help promote their North American and European tour of that year, and was released on ABBA’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 album as the brand new track. This song is a staple of Read More …
What R U Practicing – Shake Your Groove Thing – Peaches & Herb
What are you practicing this lately…? “Shake Your Groove Thing” is a song by disco duo Peaches & Herb. The single reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Billboard R&B Chart. It also reached No. 2 for four weeks on the Billboard Disco chart in 1978. The song Read More …
Time To Rebuild My Pedal Board
After a couple of years of neglect, I decided to sit down and finally rebuild my pedal board. Most rehearsals I had just been bringing my tuner pedal, and not much else. Only the Octave and Chorus pedal have been used in any show setting recently, but I have many more sound gizmos that I Read More …