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December 2024

There are two ways to make something louder in the mix
The first way is obvious: turn the thing up.
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Reverb on the bass
Try it!
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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…
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MIDI velocity expressiveness approaches
Sometimes I want my sequenced keyboard parts to be very synthesizer-y — i.e., all notes basically the same.
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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.
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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…
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November 2024

Listen to your work really loud sometimes
Why?
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What does it mean to push harder into the master bus?
I had a mentee ask me this today:
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Three strategies for evening out an uneven bass guitar
What to do if there are uneven notes in the bass?
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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.
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On repetition and control
I was listening tonight to a mentee’s song.
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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.
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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:
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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…
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There are two kinds of artists in a time of crisis
In a time of crisis, there are two distinct ways to be an artist.
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On speaking your truth in a time of crisis
A bunch of you hit reply after reading yesterday’s piece, and it was really good to hear from all of you.
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We work in context
Hi, dear Jamie’s list friends —
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About that Substack "Here's $10" email
Because I am a subscriber to Jamie’s list — it’s smart to keep close tabs on how your work appears in the real world!
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Do stuff until it sounds cool
A corollary to yesterday’s piece: when you’re approaching a mix from a framework of play and experimentation, you can feel more free to try things out…
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Centering play in your mixing practice
I want to step back for a moment and consider how we frame the task of mixing.
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High-cut EQs: shelf vs LPF, normal vs linear phase
Hi everyone!
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Jamie Hill

September 2024

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