My car’s “scan” button (and LL Cool J) make me a better producer.
Except for a couple of news stations, I do not really use presets in my car stereo. The reason for this is that I love the “scan” button that moves through the dial playing little bits of each program until you hit the button again to make it stop on something. I do this for […]
My Publicist is Mad at Me (2016 in review and big plans for 2017)
So I got a call from my publicist…. She was not happy with me! If you follow me on social media you may have noticed that I have been selling off a lot of studio stuff: studio racks, gear, instruments, acoustic treatments, etc…. So I get a call from my publicist with a stern warning: […]
Recording in bad sounding spaces
I just finished another awesome 6-day Recording Boot Camp in Italy with students from Italy, Sweden and Austria. I am taking some time off this week to enjoy Italy. The last few days I have been exploring the Emilia-Romagna region seeing lots of amazing spaces in churches, castles and palazzi. Of course, because I am […]
Recording Boot Camp in an Italian Villa September 2016
I am excited to announce our next Italian Villa Recording Boot Camp September 12-17, 2016 . This is a 6-day Recording Boot Camp held at the Villa Prosdocimi in North Italy outside of Venice, Italy. The course is presented in English and covers the same material as in the Recording Boot Camps held in Los Angeles, […]
The Best Gain Staging for Virtual Instruments
Quick note: I still have a spot left in my 6-day Recording Boot Camp in LA November 9-14, 2015. Get info here ________ I was recently on one of my rants about the utter stupidity of recording to 24bit digital with high levels. Anyone that has followed me for a while knows that this is […]
2 tricks to create big, wide and tall mixes.
Panning, or deciding where to place elements in the stereo field, can be challenging when starting out, and from time to time it still poses a big challenge for me – despite the fact that I have mixed thousands of songs in my career. At the end of the day I still go with whatever […]
Flux Bender by Lightning Boy Audio. Gear Review
Lots of you have already done it, but if you want to enter to win the awesome Kush Audio Pusher plugin, today, September 14, 2015 is the last day to do it. Enter here. I am starting a sold out 6-day Recording Boot Camp today, but there is a still a chance to get into the […]
Mixing bright vocals without getting harsh, edgy and sibilant
A couple people that signed up for my “Fly on the Wall” Vocal production course were disappointed that there was no lesson about mixing in the course. I always consider mixing a different stage, but I did not want to disappoint, so I created an exclusive vocal mixing lesson. So if you signed up for […]