This episode is a solo episode from Jon that's focusing on advice for musicians who might be recording or mixing themselves and will also be appropriate to new engineers and producers who want some advice on areas to help their career when starting out as a producer within the music industry.
Order of the day
You don’t need to buy that expensive upgrade,
A lot of the consumer technology today is pretty amazing, you don’t need to sped 2 grand on a new sound card and 1,000 on a microphone. As your career develops this can be useful
Welsh clwb work experience - learn to work with what you’ve got
Try put off buying the thing you want for another another week, another month.
Audient ID range mic preamps have been lifted directly from their consoles and its a great preamp which we use all the time, in fact their8 channel preamp can be bought for amazing value second hand. We use this all the time in the studio
Musicians won’t care about the gear you’re using, they’re more interested in the sound you get.
Try working with what you have, a good monitoring environment and a decent set of speakers don’t have to break the bank.
Your room is more important
When mixing or recording, the room you’re recording in will have the biggest impact on the overall sound of the recording. In the mixing sense sometimes it can colour your mix, a small room when recording drums buyt there are tools that can help you here. The investment into your room will provide the biggest response.
Acoustic filters - When these first came out, I used to use it all the time thinking it was helping with my room. We’ve recently seen townsend labs bringing out modelling mics that let you compensate for using these…. Long story short, I’ve stopped using it. The reason being was it was more effective to put panels behind the person recording than it was implementing it.
Acoustic treatment - try to avoid the foam stuff panels if you cna help it,DIY and self made panels are great and a company like GIK acoustics will make your room sound a lot better. There are usually room packs
Mixing - Turn it down
Do the opposite of what you want to do
Final bonus point - Mixing
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