In this video, you're about to sit in on a private vocal mixing session I recorded for one of my mentorship students. I usually keep these sessions exclusive, but since he was cool with me sharing it, you’re getting full behind-the-scenes access to a professional mix breakdown.
Here’s the key: thi...
I have mixed more than a 1000 songs and coach aspiring producers every day, and these 7 mixing mistakes show up over and over. They hold mixers back for years and keep great songs sounding amateur.
If you deal with muddy mixes, harsh vocals, weak low end, messy reverbs, bad translation, or mixes t...
Have you ever wondered why pro vocal mixes always sound so polished and expensive, while yours still feel a little off no matter how closely you follow the YouTube tutorials?
Maybe you've copied someone's exact vocal chain plug-in for plug-in, knob for knob. You even shelled out cash for the same ...
If you’re using compression and you’re not checking this one simple switch... you're not hearing compression as effectively which could affect the decisions for your mix.
It’s not a setting. Not your threshold. Not some secret ratio, attack, release, not even the analog button.
It’s a basic control e...
Struggling with sloppy and harsh S's and sibilance in your vocal mix?
One of the biggest amateur mistakes in vocal mixing is letting rogue sibilance ruin an otherwise solid mix.
Your de-esser might be working on most S’s — but every once in a while, one slashes through the mix way too hard.
Why? Becau...
Your vocal mix is on revision #38 and it still sounds lifeless…
You’ve EQ’d it, compressed it, rebuilt the chain from scratch multiple times.
And it still sounds flat, boring, lifeless in the mix.
Here’s a crazy thought - the problem might not be your processing. 🤯
Your chain might actually b...
🎧 Want punchier, louder mixes that don’t fall apart? In this video, I’m breaking one of the biggest “rules” in audio mixing: clipping. Yep—clipping your mix can actually be a pro-level technique when used the right way. Forget everything you've been told. This video shows you:
âś… What audio clipp...
Want cleaner mixes with half the headache? I stopped gain staging (the traditional way)... and my mixes got WAY better!
In this video, I’ll walk you through the 3 dead-simple habits I use to clean up my gain staging without obsessing over dB numbers or squinting at meters.
We’ll cover:
Why “pe...
After hearing this... there's no reason to slaughter your compression!
You’ve probably watched a dozen videos trying to explain compression—
Attack, release, ratios, threshold, ADSR curves… all the textbook stuff.
And that matters.
But it’s not what actually helps you hear compression.
If you’...
After hearing this... there's no reason to butcher your vocal delay effects!
In this video, you’ll learn one of the must-know, most common vocal effects that, if you’re even slightly interested in mixing, you need to know: the delay throw.
But here’s the big problem - while the delay throw is a...
After hearing this... there's no excuse to butcher your vocal EQ and vocal mix!
Do you wonder how the pros get consistently great-sounding vocal mixes every time while yours still fall flat? Maybe you’ve been watching videos showing the exact settings of vocal chains—buying the same fancy plugin...
Are you tone deaf or a mixing genius?
Today, we're putting your ears to the test with a frequency hearing challenge designed for aspiring music producers and mix engineers.
You'll tackle questions from 20 Hz - 20 KHz on drums, vocals, guitar, piano, keys, and more—focusing on EQ boosts, cuts, w...