![]() Now I spend my time working with artists around the world as a freelance mix engineer from my own home studio. I have spent thousands of hours in the search for better techniques and methods for producing music at home. Most importantly, I have been recording and mixing at home throughout my entire career. Over the years I have studied audio production at University, worked in a range of studios around London (from multi-million pound studios to small independent studios), learned from some of the best engineers in the world (who worked with bands like Queen and Motorhead), built several studios and worked with some amazing artists. and I'm still on that same high to this very day. Nevertheless, once I started learning from people with experience, my skills advanced at an incredible rate. There were very few people teaching that. but can you apply what you learn to home recording? That's the part I figured out on my own. It's great listening to an experienced engineer talk about how he mixes tracks that were recorded in a multi-million dollar studio. Most of the resources out there are geared towards working in a studio. That's the bit that took time - applying everything I learned to home recording. I took everything I learned about working in a studio and mixing live sound, and applied it to home recording. I got a job as an assistant live sound engineer. I spent some time in a professional studio. This whole time I had been teaching myself with free resources, and it hadn't worked. ![]() I lost all my confidence and almost gave up completely. I had been reading about recording and mixing online for a long time now. We bought some more equipment and set aside a whole weekend to record a few tracks. My confidence grew, and I thought I was ready to record a full album to send out to some labels. I spent hundreds of hours reading online blogs (of which there were very few back then), browsing online forums and consuming any other free resources I could find. I dedicated the next few years to improving our demos. From that moment onwards my focus shifted from playing bass guitar to recording and mixing. That's when the biggest low of my home recording career began. I remember thinking "how hard can it be?" As soon as we finished recording, we listened back to the whole track for the first time. Later that day, we plugged in the microphone and started recording. We had created something original and now it was time to share it with the world - and we couldn't wait to get started. On the way home from the store, we couldn't contain our excitement. We bought a basic USB interface, a cheap large diaphragm condenser microphone (although I had no idea what it was at the time) and all of the appropriate accessories. I formed a band with my best friends, and we decided it was time to record some of our own demos. More specifically, my life as a home recordist has consisted of a series of peaks and troughs. 41įoreword Like most people, my life has consisted of a series of peaks and troughs. 37 Chapter 8 - How to Train Your Ears and Become a Better Mixer…………….p. 20 Chapter 5 - How to Achieve Separation and Clarity………………………….p.
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