Mixing & Mastering Music

One of the questions I frequently get these days is; “can you please do a tutorial about mixing vocals in Cubase ...” So, this means that there’s a lot of people who still believe that mixing vocals with stock plugins is different from using third-party plugins. The last time I checked, 500Hz on a stock plugin is still the same as …

The number #1 reason a lot of producers, musicians and artists alike cannot compete on a commercial level is simply because they don’t spend time getting the right sound straight from the source. This is what separates the Pros from the amateurs. The reason why mixing vocals or instruments that are well recorded by a professional engineer is a simple process. The engineer …

In today’s tutorial I want to share with you an easy way to extract vocals and get an acapella from any song. I’ll also show you how to remove vocals and get the instrumental. This tutorial is for anyone who wants to extract vocals for a remix or bootleg. Even those who want to separate vocals from background music so that …

Have you ever found yourself in a situation whereby you’ve mixed the bass the best way you know how but you still can’t get the bass to cut through the mix or translate well in all sound devices? In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to mix FAT bass guitar, you’ll learn how to use distortion to fatten up …

In today’s tutorial I’ll be sharing some audio Pre-Mastering Tips that you can use to finalize a mix and get it ready for mastering. This is the final step you’ll need to do once you’re happy with how your instrumentation and vocals sound.You’ll need to do some Pre-Mastering if you feel like it can improve the overall mix and don’t …

In this blog post I want to share with you a secret vocal harmony trick that I use to make the chorus part to sound bigger than the verse. I will also show you how to use Little AlterBoy by Soundtoys to make a male singer sound like a female.I’m currently working on a mix, and the problem that I …