If you own a home studio it would really be hard to imagine mixing a full drum set, besides the physical space issue, there is just not enough room to create such big of a sound. Today recording anything within the confined space of your home studio is possible yes that includes huge drum sounds minus the reverb. There is nothing that a little trickery cannot do and once you master it no small space can ever stop you from creating those huge drum sounds. Turn your home studio into a professional sounding live room drums, it’s all in the mix.
Watch video here: https://www.recordingrevolution.com/mix-your-tiny-home-studio-drums-to-sound-huge/
Recording Tips and Techniques
Start Your New Track With These Production Tips
If you ever dreamt of producing your own big hit but doesn’t really know where to begin or how to start your own track this is for you. All you need is a little preparation and some creativity. You might be sitting there staring at your DAW with all your hopes and dreams but unless you start you will be producing nothing.
Here are 10 production tips that actually let you start and finish your new track.
With the flood of tools available in the market today you wouldn’t have to worry about shortage the trick is to limit the tools you use.
Read more here: https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/10-production-tips-for-starting-a-new-track–cms-28984
Using EQ To Clean-Up Your Audio
Are you tired of those annoying noises in a vocal? Plosives and fizzy effs to name a few? Learn how to use your EQ to fix all of these problems in your Audio. Jon Tidey of reaperblog.net shows us how we can maximize the use of our EQ in solving these common and most of the times irritating problems we face in our mixing.
He starts off with vocal tracks dealing with those fizzy long effs which you may not come across very often but can cause a lot of problems during your mix. By using fading and item effects he shows how it can be resolved.
Watch video here: http://reaperblog.net/2017/05/eq_for_editing/
Headphones For Mixing? Consider These Things
If you are mixing from a home studio most likely you are using headphones, the question is does it really matter whether you are using a monitor or a headphone? Be it from a professional studio or mixing from your home? To be honest using either monitors or headphones can help you achieve quality mix even when combined. And you can add more complications to this equation with choices of headphones and monitors available. But in case you are using headphones for your mix, here are some things you might want to consider.
- Don’t be exclusive, always be open for other options
Read more here: http://blog.discmakers.com/2017/07/consider-this-when-mixing-with-headphones/
Use EQ Like A Pro
Using EQ for the first time can be intimidating, and fine tuning all the details can be quite a handful but there are a right and wrong approaches to your EQ and if you learn it the right way you would not have to face to the horror of a bad outcome. Then suddenly all those things you thought were intimidating is not that bad after all. Rob Mayzes of musicianonamission.com breaks down the EQ in 2 sections with the 4 key approaches and 10 essential tips to EQ’ing like a pro. Understand the purpose of an EQ in relation to music making
Read more here: https://www.musicianonamission.com/approach-equalization-two-types-eq/