Posts by Vally

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…

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…

3 Reasons Why Artists Think Paying for Mixing is Expensive (Spoiler: It’s Not) Preface My time as a provider on Upwork inspired me to write this blog. In the past, I would check the gigs posted on the marketplace to see who was looking for work and send out proposals. What I found, was that…

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…

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…

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…

Artists Recording at Home, Why Bother Using Auxiliary Tracks and Sends? Here’s 4 Reasons Why. Vally here – As an artist, you probably just want to create. Anything technical, or any learning curve that puts barriers up for you to create quickly and easily, you’d probably rather avoid at all costs. That said, having one…

To get a mix that blows away your expectations, your engineer needs to understand your preferences. Here’s a list of what you need to send as an artist or producer in order to effectively communicate them.

The “final boss” of setting session tempo and aligning imported instrumentals and stems to the grid.