Making Your Mix Engineer Happy - Recording Tips
More and more people are recording themselves and are finding themselves getting stuck at the mixing stage. A lot of times I'll get a call saying "I just can't get it to sound right". There can be many reasons for this but at this point it might be good to get a professional involved to finish off the project. I do mixing for other producers, people who were at studios and were unhappy with the final result, and people recording at home who want me to polish things up. I thought I'd make a blog posting on how to best record your project to give a future mix engineer maximum flexibility. Here's a few tips: 1. When recording your drums record single hit samples of all the drums but mainly the snare, kick and toms. The reason for this is that you have some good samples that you can feed in when needed. Generally speaking this is invaluable for toms that were played when the cymbals and/or ride were blaring in the mic and a clean signal isn'...