Manually Editing Vocals Pre-Processing – What it Means and Why it Matters

Manually Editing Vocals Pre-Processing – What it Means and Why it Matters Listening to music is an experience. An intense emotional connection can be created between the listener and the art. For this connection to be maintained, all sonic distractions must be removed. To me, hearing mouth clicks, low frequency boominess, plosives, harshness on consonants…

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How I Manage Projects as a Mixing Engineer

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How I Manage Projects as a Mixing Engineer Creatives are not always organized. Even if there is a manager, A&R, producer, friend, or just the artist is managing the project, I’ve found that communication between all parties and centralization can easily become disparate. This creates an opportunity for me to add value for all parties…

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10 Tips for Recording Vocals at Home

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10 Tips for Recording Vocals at Home Why does the internet need more content about recording vocals at home? There are hundreds and articles and videos about this already, right? Well then, why do I still have artists and producers send me terribly recorded vocals laden with distortion (rhetorical). I sometimes still get vocals from…

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Pro Tools Session Management Tips for Artists Recording at Home

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Pro Tools Session Management Tips for Artists Recording at Home The purpose of this article is to prevent some major headaches that I have found creators experience with Pro Tools. With these tips you should be able to easily send your sessions to collaborators or engineers, prevent issues with reviving your old sessions/production ideas in…

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Exporting your Tracks to Send to Your Engineer (Pro Tools Edition)

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Exporting your Tracks to Send to Your Engineer (Pro Tools Edition) So, you want an engineer to mix your song proper. If you have found this article, chances are you think exporting your multitracks from Pro Tools is intimidating, complicated, or you have just never done it before. Keep in mind, this is for Pro…

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