8x Billboard Artist / Producer / Mix & Master Engineer | Owner of @RhydonSound
Joined June 2011
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New plugins won’t make you a better Engineer or Producer the exact same way a new instrument doesn’t automatically you make you a better player.
Haven’t released one song this year so thank you everyone who’s been listening and I do promise to have new music coming all of next year!
Seeing growth as a musician is very hard short term. It really is one of things where you have to ‘trust the process’ and keep going.
Cross testing your Mixes is incredibly important however the more mixes you have under your belt, the better you’ll understand the equipment you use and what you have to do to have a cohesive mix across all the different outlets.
I'm not sure how many of you realise how truly expensive touring is as an underground artist. Don't go broke rushing your career.
Build, build and build until your fans are begging to give you their hard earned money for an hour of your time.
Didn’t realise I still had a Splice membership going. Logged in to nearly 5,000 credits. Might as well use them.
An artist I work with has recently set-up a home-recording studio for themselves with my recommendations on the best-for-your-buck equipment.
The first batch of vocal recordings sounded terribly off. She sent a video of the setup and turns out the microphone was backwards (it wasn't obvious btw).
I've come across this issue truly countless times. If you're a beginner to all this, please when setting up home-studios read the manuals. Most things are not plug-and-play.
Microphone placements can seem a very complicated task but in truth they are not.
You need to think practically. Have the musician play in the room and physically walk around to find the sweet spots. Then do the same with each microphone.
There's no limit to how many mic's you use either, only what you have at your disposal and remember every microphone has it's own characteristics and polar patterns which you must take into consideration.
You'd never listen to someone playing the guitar with your head an inch away from the sound-hole so why shove a microphone that close when recording one?
I pride myself in the fact that I have engineered, produced, and written thousands of songs and never once been asked for a refund.
Please try this idea out and get back to me because I think I’ve created something insanely cool sounding.
OG Guitar Take: Dry
Bus 1: Vocal Autotune (around 30-40%)
Bus 2: Plate reverb with a bpm matched phaser on the tail for Bus 1, not the dry take.
I don’t know really know why but it just works strangely well.
Currently in a studio session in Miami with $55,000 monitors. That perfect vocal take no longer sounds perfect on these bad boys.