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Making little moves
I’ve realized that what I like to do in mixes is to force the listener to constantly be reevaluating the relationships between sounds, and therefore…
Dec 7
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Jamie Hill
MIDI velocity expressiveness approaches
Sometimes I want my sequenced keyboard parts to be very synthesizer-y — i.e., all notes basically the same.
Dec 5
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Jamie Hill
Is it too open?
If you find yourself enjoying your mix more the louder you listen to it, it’s possible that it doesn’t have enough reverb.
Dec 3
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Jamie Hill
Blackbird's useful attributes for a recording engineer
Our dear friend Ben has embarked on a studio engineering program at the legendary Blackbird Studios, and he sent me this pic of a slide in one of his…
Dec 1
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Jamie Hill
November 2024
Listen to your work really loud sometimes
Why?
Nov 30
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Jamie Hill
What does it mean to push harder into the master bus?
I had a mentee ask me this today:
Nov 29
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Jamie Hill
Three strategies for evening out an uneven bass guitar
What to do if there are uneven notes in the bass?
Nov 27
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Jamie Hill
On not taking no for an answer
I think that sometimes there can be a little too much of a macho-feeling approach to engineering.
Nov 26
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Jamie Hill
On repetition and control
I was listening tonight to a mentee’s song.
Nov 22
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Jamie Hill
Listen to that voice
There’s been this little voice in the back of my head for the last two days that I’ve been working on this song.
Nov 19
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Jamie Hill
Working with both bar and time rulers visible
When I’m working, I like to work with both the time ruler and the bars ruler visible — like this:
Nov 16
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Jamie Hill
Grouping tracks that go together
When I’m working on a production or a mix and have a situation in which the relationship between two tracks is important, I put them in their own little…
Nov 14
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