I have said so many times that mixing is a whole science. There are so many things that contribute so we can have a good mix in our home studio. Nothing is impossible! One thing that we have to do very often is to check if our mix is good. And how can we do this? We can listen to our mixes on different sound sources ,like a cd player in our house,in our car ,in our cell phone etc. How can we achieve to have a good mix? In your home studio you keep an average level of volume ,

One of the most frustrated things that you have to face ,is when you have too many tracks in a mix and you can’t manage them right! Something that will help you and make your life much easier ,is group channels! It is a track where you can import a number of instruments on the same category such as guitars, and you can edit all these in this one track. Let’s see how it works. For example we have a project with 4 tracks acoustic guitar , one track piano ,5 tracks of strings ,

We have mentioned so many times how beautiful and creative is to work in your home studio. There are so many advantages but surely are disadvantages also. You may have heard me saying in my videos or in my blog posts that gear doesn’t matter at all. You just have to start recording. You have read in many websites about mixing or you have watched video tutorials for mixing and even you do exactly what you have learned, you don’t have the same results. You have to understand th

I know that I have told this so many times ,but it is very important and HomeStudioProject stands for this. We live in a privileged time and technology gives us the option to do so many with the less as can be. The same thing happens in our home studio. I have told you over and over again that you don’t have to spend a fortune so you can record your songs from your bedroom and some things are not necessary to have them if you don’t have the space or the money. For example, to

I listen vey often various opinions on how you must record so you can have a good signal flow and you can work more efficient in your mix afterwards. I Have clients that send me their songs to mix them, and they think that a good recording is a loud one! No, my friend ,this is a very big mistake! If you want to get a very good mix you must get better recordings in the production phase. We are going to discuss on what you really need to have the desired result. It has to do wi

Taking notes is a very important step to get better mixes. Some of you may say “Are you serious? Why is that so important?” Let me tell you why. First of all you have to know that after a specific time your ears are getting “tired” ,and this is where you have to take a break,or just stop and leave it for the next time you are going to work in your home studio. So I suggest to do this: Take a blank piece of paper or a notepad ,whatever is convenient for you, and before you sta

In mixing there are so many things that we have to think on how we can fix our recordings so we can get a better result. Mixing is an art and there are so many techniques that you can use ,so you can have a nice mix. The issue is to start with something that will help you to have better options to choose so you can achieve the right balance in your song .Mixing is balance. The first thing you can do is to pick an equalizer that comes with you recording software and choose on

There are many times when you are listening to a song and you are impressed how all the instruments are so good glued together and you keep wondering how you can achieve this on your songs. We are still looking for this one secret of success,that can make our mixes sound more professional! We are going to talk a lot and many times in the future about mixing and what it takes to achieve the best results in your home studio. That’s the main cause of HomeStudioProject after all!

There are many times ,when you are starting a new project , a new song to record and you are feeling very confident that you are going to have the best recordings you ever had in your home studio. And this is what it takes. Positive thinking! There are some points though, that stuck you and are holding you back from finishing your song. You have questions and you are not sure if you have made the right decision for your mix or anything else. It doesn’t matter in what level yo

We are living in a time that everything is so easy with the help of technology. There are some things that are difficult and we must practice until we get used to it. If you think in the early 1990’s,when the first mobile phones appeared in the global market, how impressed we were with this new invention ,because we could call anyone from any place we were. Amazing isn’t it? There was no internet or social media. You couldn’t even read your e mails on your mobile phone. As th

I think that many times you are feeling confused working on a project and you don’t know where verse begins or the chorus or even if you want to add a bridge after the second chorus and you are just scrolling the cursor back and forth until you find the spot you want to edit. There is a way to be more efficient and more faster on working our projects by using a tool called Marker track. Marker track is just what its name defines. You add markers in your project so you know ex

When it comes to mixing ,many questions come to our minds. One of these and it’s one of the most commons is “ What effects should I use for giving life to my song ,more energy and become radio-ready?” That’s why today we’re starting a series of plug ins reviews ,which are the most importand and very helpful in the mixing procedure. We begin with compression and how we can use the compressor properly. I have heard a lot of times from friends or my students saying that they don

When it comes to mixing ,many questions come to our minds. One of these and it’s one of the most commons is “ What effects should I use for giving life to my song ,more energy and become radio-ready?” That’s why today we’re starting a series of plug ins reviews ,which are the most importand and very helpful in the mixing procedure. We begin with compression and how we can use the compressor properly. I have heard a lot of times from friends or my students saying that they don

Have a nice and creative month everyone! We are in the beginning of October and the best thing we can do is to schedule all these things we want to do in this month or even further the next two , three months. Today is the starting date of the 1-5 songs production challenge. We must write,record ,mix and release 1-5 songs until 12/30. If we want to be accountable to our goal ,we should consider all the factors that may hold us back from the things we have to do in order to a

We continue within this video series on mixing and if you have read my latest blog post this video should be very helpful to you ,to give your mix the width and clarity ,like the way it should be! This video and the upcoming videos will help through the 1-5 songs production challenge until 12/30,starting in a few days. Leave your comments if this video was helpful and give some ideas for the upcoming videos on any topic you like. In case you have forgotten, please subscribe t