Introducing: Step By Step Mixing Folk Rock

Here's What You'll Learn Inside Step By Step Mixing Folk Rock

• How to simplify your tracks with submixes so that you can get better mixes in less time
• Find out what all the pro engineers know about organizing your tracks for easy mixing
• Why jumping into the mix without considering what you want things to sound like will make everything take longer
• Why a simple DI bass recording will never give you a full, powerful bass tone and what you need to do instead
• The surprisingly easy critical listening exercises you should do before you even start mixing your tracks
• The three powerful plug-ins that work wonders on your mix bus to immediately add glue, warmth and power to your tracks
• The secret weapon to make your home-recorded drums sound like they came from an expensive studio
• EQ and compression techniques to make your drums sound punchy and powerful
• How to get rid of boxiness and boom from your drums
• A sneaky little trick to immediately make your mixes brighter and more modern-sounding
• A quick and easy way to control your low end and add width to your mix
• How a separate “snare-stretch” trick will add depth and presence to your snare sound
• My “virtual vintage” bass processing chain that makes a boring DI’d bass come alive
• My go-to compressor for a big bass and guitar sound
• A dead-simple way to make both the bass and guitars play nicely together in the low-miss without adding muddiness
• My acoustic guitar capo-trick for adding lift to the choruses to make them bigger
• How to add excitement to dull acoustic guitars so that they add brilliance and brightness to your mix
• Why and when you should use LCR panning - and why all these online arguments about panning are a total waste of time
• The REAL secret behind why you should use LCR panning to create width in your mixes
• How to create separation in a dense guitar mix without making everything sound thin and washed out
• How to instantly get that “analog warmth” - even if you don’t have fancy outboard equipment or an expensive mixing console
• You’ll discover how to add depth and space to all your instruments without creating a washed-out, reverb-y mess
• You’ll learn how to use mono delays to create depth and width to your tracks so that you can create a 3D mix that fills up your speakers
• You’ll find out how to quickly recognize and avoid too much compression, overblown low end, or harsh high-end
• My over-the-top effects chain to create an organ pad that fills up the entire mix without getting in the way
• Why some compressors and reverbs work better than others, and the reason you shouldn’t slap just any plug-in on your tracks
• Why “black box magic plug-ins” are annoying because you don’t know what they’re doing - and if you don’t know what they’re doing, you don’t know how to get the sound you want (even if they’re fun to cheat with)
• A fast and easy way to target a problematic frequency area that’s only causing issues sometimes, without using automation, macro-programming, or re-recording
• The Pulteq trick revealed - if you’ve ever wondered WHY the Pulteq trick does such wonders for your low-end, I show you exactly what’s going on beneath the hood
• Beware of this common vocal mixing mistake when using doubled vocals - you’ll learn how to mix multiple vocals together so that you can get a great vocal sound at home
• How the serial compression LA2A/1176 ACTUALLY WORKS and what it does to the waveform so that you can finally understand why it makes your vocal sit in the mix
• How to create a natural vocal space that sits with the instruments and doesn’t clutter up the rest of the mix
• How automation can add interest and excitement throughout the mix
• How to rebalance and add final tweaks to your mix after you’ve mixed all the tracks so that everything sits nicely and plays like a record
• How to use reference mixing to beat your own mixes so that every mix you finish is better than the one before
• How to prepare your mix for mastering IF you use a mastering engineer
• The real secret to adding headroom to your mix before mastering - almost everyone gets this wrong and if you ask about this on the internet you’ll get a bunch of bullshit answers.
• How to master your mix with linear phase EQ, multi-band compression, analog modeling, parallel compression, and limiting to enhance your mix even further so that it sounds like a professionally mastered record that’s ready to be released
• And much, much more...