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When choosing a vocal compressor, listen for the curves
Hi from tour!
Sep 16
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Jamie Hill
August 2024
We're on tour!
Shannon and I are on tour for the next 6 weeks across the USA!
Aug 31
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Jamie Hill
Reverb on the overheads
Something that I love to do when I’m mixing a song that has an acoustic drum kit is to put a long reverb just on the overheads.
Aug 22
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Jamie Hill
Master bus limiter "lookahead": what's that *for*, anyway?
If your audio engineering learning experience has been anything like mine, you might have spent a lot of time not knowing exactly what the lookahead…
Aug 21
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Jamie Hill
Fitting bass boosts around the bass notes
When I’m working on a master for something that someone else has mixed, I frequently need to help the low end.
Aug 20
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Jamie Hill
It's not a de-esser, it's a de-harsher
De-essers are good for helping with ess sounds.
Aug 18
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Jamie Hill
First, we chase sounds ... eventually, we chase feelings
I’ve been thinking over the past few days about how our processes, skills, and expertise can evolve over the arcs of our lifetimes in music production.
Aug 17
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Jamie Hill
Knowing when to stop is half the job
Yesterday I wrote a bit about how one’s engineering skills can evolve.
Aug 16
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Jamie Hill
Everything you hear is controllable
This is both the good news and the bad news, I suppose?
Aug 15
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Jamie Hill
Rock Band stems
I was chatting this afternoon with my (extremely talented) friend Allison Winkler (Bone Haus, Gock), and we had the following exchange:
Aug 14
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Jamie Hill
The emotion will wear off, and that's okay
When I’m working on an emotional song, and I’m in that critical handoff between production and mixing, there will be a moment where what I’m doing…
Aug 13
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Jamie Hill
Help it be more of what it wants to be
If it wants to be aggressive, help it be more aggressive.
Aug 11
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Jamie Hill
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