Using Mono Tracks

Hey everyone today I want to talk to you use guys using mono tracks in your mix instead of stereo tracks the resaon you should not use stereo tracks is because it will crowed your mix buss and it will be a lot harder to mix your music. So this is why you need mono tracks to record

Tomorrow I'm going to be posting some stuff about EQ And if you have any other questions about anything please fell free to ask thank you 

Using EQ For an Acoustic Guitar

If you are not doing this when you are using EQ on your acoustic guitar you need to start doing it now. Using a high pass filter is one of the most importing things you can do in your mix to clean up your acoustic guitar. Set your gain on your EQ to about 200 Hz then set your EQ to about 3 dB or 6 dB adding a high pass filter at 200 Hz on a acoustic guitar will clean up a lot of the low end and alow the kick drum

And the bass guitar to pop through the mix a lot more.

Hope this Tip helped you guys with your music and go out this week and record some good music.

There will be know posts next week because I will be away at a youth retreat 

So all be posting when I get back but make sure you keep making good music 

Editing Tracks

Editing your tracks can be one of the most importing things you can do as a producer and this is one thing most people skip in your mixing work flow. If you don't edit your tracks people think you can just get ride of it with EQ but hear one thing you need to know sometimes you can't. And when you can't get ride of it with EQ you just wasted all your time trying to. The reason people don't want to edit is because they think it tacks to long I had a friend who was working on one of his songs and he played me the song one day and some things stood out in the song that did not sound good to me so I said after the song was over can I give you some tips and he said sure so I said there are some thing in there that don't sound good like breaths and all kinds of stuff are you planing on tacking those out and he said I'm tried to and I asked him did you edit the song and I know you guys know what he said yup he did not edit anything

He jumped right into mixing and I was thinking he could just tack it out with EQ so there a good point for you guys make sure you edit before you jump into mixing it will make your mix come together much Easyer and it will sound a whole lot better and you won't be struggling with trying to tack things out that don't belong there 

I know I've talked about editing hear on the blog before but it's one of the most importing thing you can do. Go out and make some good music 

Why You Should Not Use Guitar Sounds In Your Daw

Hear is a reason why you should not use guitar sound in your Daw the reason why is because your Daw come with unlimited sounds and then you could spend all day trying to chooses what sound you want to use for your song and then that's just wasting time when you could be recording your tracks or mixing your song out editing your song it's just a way to wasted time so the best way to chooses sounds for your song is don't pick your sound after you started tracking pick all your sounds for your song before you started tracking because then you'll save a lot more time moving onto other things in your song

Hope this tip helps you try it out and just me it will save you a whole bunch of time if you choose your sounds before you start recording 

3 Of My Best Mixing Tricks

Today I want to share with you some of my best mixing tricks that I use in all of my song and they always always help my mixes come together. The first one is tacking an EQ any EQ will work 5 band EQ 4 band EQ any EQ, and add a high pass filter to it and tack out 100 Hz that's a good starting point that's going to help clean up your mix a little more and help bring your instruments forwarded and you'll be able to hear what was not there before. After you apply that high pass filter you want to apply that high pass filter to all of your tracks exspeted your kick drum, and your bass guitar, once you apply that to all your tracks, your kick drum and your bass guitar are going to stand out in your mix a lot more and that's what you want. My next best mixing trick is getting ride of the 400 Hz rage so what your going to do is grab

Another EQ again this can be any EQ 

and roll of 400 Hz and then - 3dB for the gain and apply that same cut of EQ to all of your tracks and I mean all of them 

Once you apply that cut of EQ your mix should sound cleaner and you'll be able to hear instruments that where not there before. 

My next best mixing trick is to stack  

Vocal compression and what that mean I stack 2 compressor and add one to your vocal track and then add the other one underneeth and that should bring your vocal forwarded in your mix a lot more

You won't be fight your mix to bring your vocal forwarded because that's what where all looking for is to have our vocals sit ontop of your mix 

I hope there mixing tips helped you and if you have any other questions please 

Fell free to email me at anytime 

Thank you have a great day 

Beyond Those Gates

So last week I finished tracking all my tracks for my new song and today I started mixing so today I added a high pass filter to all of my tracks but not the kick drum and the bass guitar and I panned my tracks and I set all the faders so everything is at the right level and so fare it is coming along