Editing Vocals – Save Time and Energy DO IT ON THE FLY! Recording and editing vocals – save time and energy by editing on the fly. In addition to saving time, you know you’ve got the takes you need. In this video I show my approach to editing vocals as I record them. Hopefully […]
Why Home Studio Vocals Sound Bad?DO THIS! Recording vocals in a home studio – doesn’t sound good? In this video you learn why home studio vocals tend to sound bad and how to fix it. Hopefully you found this post helpful. If there’s anything you want me to cover in the future videos let […]
Recording Vocals in a Home Studio5 Essential Tips Recording vocals in a home studio – five essential tips. By taking care of these five things, you are way ahead of many people who record vocals and you have every chance of getting professional sounding results. Hopefully you found this post helpful. If there’s anything […]
Stereo or Mono? – When to Use Stereo and When Mono Tracks? Stereo or mono? When to use a stereo track? How about a mono track? In this video I explain when and why you should use them. Hopefully you found this post helpful. If there’s anything you want me to cover in the […]
Record Professional & Clear Guitar Tracks Professional engineers tend to record better sounding tracks than amateurs. Why’s that? The reason is not the gear or the recording space. Usually the difference is the production choices. In this video I show you a simple way to make your tracks sound professional, focused and crystal clear. […]
Tracking Rhythm Guitars – How Many Tracks to Record? Tracking distorted rhythm guitars – how many tracks to record? Should you double, triple or even quadruple all the guitars? This is a topic that divides opinions for sure. In this video I demonstrate with a few examples – what I think works and sounds […]
Drum Sounds Ruined! – Phase Cancellation – How to Notice and Fix? Phase cancellation is really common when recording multimiked instruments, such as drums. As the same source of sound is recorded with two (or more) mics, their waveforms can cross in a way that they end up cancelling out one another. When […]
Do THIS for Better Guitar Tone Do you want to record better, more detailed and focused guitars? Of course you do – who wouldn’t. However, guitar tones are often personal and so the guitarist isn’t too eager to change the tone that much. No problem. In this video I show you how to […]
Mixing Home Studio Acoustic Guitar An acoustic guitar can easily be recorded professionally at home, in your bedroom or home studio as I showed in this video. It’s time to take those well recorded tracks and polish them to sound sweet and wide. In this video I want to show you how you […]
Recording Acoustic Guitar at Home– THE FOOLPROOF WAY Acoustic guitar is an instrument that works beautifully both on its own and as a spice together with other instruments, such as a whole band. In case you are struggling to get a good sounding acoustic guitar recordings at home – hear me out. It […]
Vocal Microphone Comparison: 29€ Mic VS 400€ Mic What’s the difference between cheap and expensive mics? In this video I want to demonstrate how exactly 29€ mic differs from 400€ mic. The other one is almost 14 times more expensive. Mics in this vocal microphone comparison are t.bone SC 300 and Shure SM7B. The […]
Recording Vocals with 29 Euro Microphone!? – Cheap Vocal Mic: t.bone SC 300 In this video I want to demonstrate how t.bone SC 300 microphone sounds like with vocals. It’s a condenser microphone and it costs only 29 euros (approx. 35 dollars) which is crazy! So to the point: What kind of quality can you […]
The Best Free Bass Pluginfor Rock and Metal In case you’re struggling to get decent overdrive / distortion bass tone at home, look no further, because the TSE Audio BOD is just amazing. It’s the best free bass plugin for rock and metal genres. In this video you’ll hear it in the action […]
Mic Shootout: Recording Metal / Rock Vocals at Home In this post you’ll find a mic shootout for recording metal and rock vocals at home. The microphone shootout is between Shure SM 7 B, Shure SM57 and Rode NT1-A. In addition, you’ll see my home vocal recording setup and settings for metal / […]
How Much Changing Guitar and Bass Strings Affects the Sound? (Before and After Comparison) It is recommended to change guitar and bass strings before starting the recording process of a song. While it’s easy to just say “change the strings, because it will sound better”, I wanted to demonstrate how much it actually […]
How to Record Fast Lead & Solo Guitar(and Sound Like Pro) Recording fast guitar solos and lead parts can be tricky, as you want the timing to be spot on and at the same time as natural as possible. There’s no room for mistakes or sloppiness in today’s music. Because of “the feel […]
Hard-Hitting Mix: Recording Tight Guitar and Bass Tracks (Step 1/4) This is a follow up video for “4 Steps to Make Mixes Hit Hard”. In this video I’m focusing entirely to the step one, which is recording hard-hitting and tight instrument tracks. It is the foundation for hard-hitting mix. Make sure you don’t […]
4 Steps to Make Mixes Hit Hard Do you know the feeling when you think your mix hits harder than life and when you compare it to your favourite songs – it turns out your track sounds tiny in comparison? I hate that feeling and I don’t want you to feel it either. […]
How to Create Rise Against Bass Tone (on Any DAW with Stock Plugins)? In this video I’m showing you how to create Rise Against -like punkrock bass tone using only stock plugins. You can do this regardless of the DAW you’re using. The principles works on all the different DAWs. At first, try […]
Creating Screaming Vocals at Home (Vocal Technique and Example) In this video I’m showing you a screaming vocals technique that can be learned by anyone at home. It is a technique that doesn’t harm your vocal cords and you can make it sound pretty bad ass. Better yet, the technique is rather quiet, […]
Programming Realistic Midi Drums Programming realistic midi drums is an art of its own. It seems to be a huge problem for many starting out musicians and home studio warriors. However, it’s not that hard to do once you have a right kind of workflow. In this video, I’m showing you my way […]
Bigger Synths by Stacking Preset Sounds Can you make preset synths sounding great and suitable for your songs? I’d say you can. If you haven’t got the time, the skills or the interest to start crafting own sounds from the start – then you can do this instead. In this video I’m showing […]
From an Idea into a Full Song In case you have a lots of unfinished song ideas, this post is for you. What I’m about to show you can help you with that. In this video I’m showing how my idea transformed into a full song. Start from the Hook and Build Around It […]
Layering Guitars Doesn’t Bring Tightness – THIS DOES People tell you layering guitars is the way to go, like it’s the holy grail of getting huge and tight guitar tracks. When there are multiple tracks playing the same thing, you don’t have to play so locked into the tempo. In fact, it’s better […]
How to Create a Killer Bass Tone on Any DAW? In this video I’m showing you how to create a killer bass tone on any DAW. I’m using only the stock plugins from Logic Pro X. You can find similar plugins from each and every DAW out there. Without further ado, here’s the video: […]
How to Create Bring Me The Horizon Synths (With Stock Plugins)? In this video I’m showing you how to create those glitchy, Bring Me The Horizon – like synths with stock plugins. You can do it in any DAW. The process contains five different parts: 1. At first, pick up lead sound that […]
Can You Make Pro Quality Metal Music at Home? In this video you’ll find the answer to the burning question: Can you make pro quality metal music at home? The point of this video is just to demonstrate the quality that can be produced at home, with some budget gear and a simple […]
Why Midi Synth Sounds Never Seem to Fit? – 4 Steps to Better Synths Have you ever searched synth sounds only to find out they all seem to suck? Doesn’t really matter what plugin you’re using, bulk of the presets sound like… Well, shit. Where on earth could you use them ever? They’re […]
5 Biggest Time Wasters in Home Studio It’s the most thrilling feeling to craft songs in home studio. You know the excitement when an inspiration sparks and the pieces start falling in place. Sadly, that’s not always the case. On the flip side, it’s the biggest frustration when you spend hours on your […]
Phase Cancellation – The Easy Approach Have you ever recorded or mixed multi-miked instruments, such as drums? Did you come up with this weird thin sounding result and you couldn’t quite pinpoint what you were doing wrong? No matter how you adjust the snare mic, it just sounds thin and hollow? Then you’ve […]
Stop Trying to Do Everything With One Tool Your songs will sound much better if you don’t try to do everything with one tool. It sounds obvious, right? Why would anyone do that? I’ve done it, you’ve done it, we all have. What I mean is, that you get far better results by using different […]
The Truth About Why Your Mixes Suck Why do you think your mixes suck? Does it suck because of the lack of acoustic treatment or the lack of quality speakers? Is your mix bad because you don’t know how you should approach mixing? Don’t you have enough mixing tricks in your arsenal? While any of […]
Write and Mix Songs Faster With Custom Presets Custom presets are great, but you’ve probably heard it (even from me) that mixing with presets is unwise as the plugin manufacturer has no idea how your tracks sound like and what the song needs. Let’s say you insert an EQ to a vocal track and start flipping […]
Recording Pro Vocals at Home – Part 3 In the part one we tackled reflections and chose the right mic. In the part two we covered everything from setting the signal levels to keeping the right distance and from headphone mix to the recording process itself. To tell you the truth, everything until now has […]
Recording Pro Vocals at Home – Part 2 So now that we know how to get rid of the noises and reflections and choose the proper microphone for the task, let’s continue further with vocal recording. In part one of the “Recording Pro Vocals at Home” we established that both types of microphones will surely […]
Recording Pro Vocals at Home – Part 1 Getting vocals right is hands down the biggest stumbling block in a home studio environment. No matter how awesome your song sounds otherwise, if the vocals aren’t right, the end product still sounds amateur. This is why you need to pay extra attention to recording vocals at home. […]
Five Unarguable Reasons to Use Click Tracks Click aka metronome is a tool that gives you a tempo. It can play half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes etc. for you to keep a certain tempo. It is designed to be a helpful tool, but some people don’t like it. They simply don’t like playing with […]
How to Create Midi Drums Faster? Composing midi drums can be frustratingly slow, especially if you’re just starting out and / or you’re not a drummer. Somehow you manage to put together a decent two bar beat for your song. You’ll end up using the same two bar loop over and over again. In the […]
How to Make Realistic Midi Drums? As you know, drums are the backbone of basically any genre, let alone rock, metal and other similar hard hitting music. In an earlier post, I covered the topic about why drums are so important and why getting a third party drum plugin might be a good idea. If […]
The Importance of Great Sounding Midi Drums Let’s face it, drums are essential in today’s music. Drums are the bedrock of heavy metal, rock, dance music – you name it. In order to get pro sounding drums you’ll need either a talented drummer who can play your songs, and enough preamps, microphones, cables, mic stands […]
The Recipe of a Pro Mix (Most Skip 3-4 Out of 6 Crucial Steps) What actually is the recipe of a pro mix? Is there such a recipe? What are the steps to go from demo to pro? You’re about to find out. Watching the “behind the scenes” and studio diaries of your favourite bands […]
