Enhance your Recording and Mixing Skills by Grayspark Audio Academy Phone: (+91)

Introduction To get better at recording and mixing skills “Practice” is the only key. Yes, we all have heard it, but yet find it hard to get down to actually practicing your recording and mixing skills. Here are some ways that we can analyze and correct our mistakes through practice and become an efficient recording and mixing engineers.

Record an Instrument on a pre-recorded session Try and get your hands on a few Multi-Track sessions, you can take this from already recorded track. Choose any instrument from this recording and re-record it. Understand the thought process of the recording engineer that went into designing specific sound.

Try visualizing different sounds for these instruments and record them, this will help you with getting faster at recording. This tip will help you build your skill recording and visualizing a relevant sound for a song.

Emulate or Reverse Recordings Let’s take example of the drum sound on “Boom Like That” a song by Mark Knopfler to understand this. Try different micing techniques, drum Tunings, preamps and microphone combinations and different room positions until you reach a point where the drum sound is comparable to the one from the song.

In this process, you will learn a few more ways that could use studio equipment to get closer to different sounds. Reverse engineering is easy, analyze and break down the sound into simple forms, define every element of the sound.

Analyze Mix Sessions from your Engineers Try to get your hands on some of the sessions that have been mixed and try to put yourself in the mix engineer’s chair. Take a part the mix and listen to all the elements without the processing on it, listen to it with the plug-ins bypassed and then effects and processing dialed it.

Practice Multi-Track Mixing Take any Multi-Track session and start by getting the balance in place and repeat it until you reach a point that you’re happy with. Once you arrive at a good balance, try to shape the tone and dynamics of the instruments and get them in line with what your vision for the song.

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