Killer Drum Sounds From A Small Room?

One of the hardest instruments to record is a full drum kit. With multiple microphones, phase issues, stereo pairs… It’s enough to overwhelm even the most experienced producers and engineers. Plus, what if you’re recording at home and you simply don’t have a huge live room you can use for your drum recordings? Fret not. In this week’s video, producer/mixer...

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Crush Your Drums For HUGE Sounds

Want huge, powerful drum sounds whether you’re working with samples or a live recording? Whether it’s playing through a smartphone speaker or your friend’s car… With this “crush bus” technique, your drums will translate onto any speakers your mixes are played on… And they’ll have the power and punch of a professionally released record. In this week’s...

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Silverstein’s Producer Reveals Radio Ready Rock Vocal Plugin Chain

This month at the Recording Revolution, we’ve got producer/mixer Jordan Valeriote from Hardcore Music Studio teaching you how to get better recordings and mixes in your home studio. He’s worked with bands like Silverstein and Neck Deep, and his work has been released by record labels such as Universal Music, Rise Records, Hopeless Records… And he’s...

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The Hozier / Lana Del Rey Vocal Reverb Trick

A cool vocal sound that’s returned to the mainstream lately is the lush, huge reverb, heard on the songs of artists like Hozier and Lana Del Rey. In this week’s video, Graham shows you how to recreate this sound in your DAW with stock plugins, quickly and easily. You can download the Radio Ready Guide at: http://RadioReadyGuide.com The post The...

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Better Mixes Faster With Less Plugins – Stereo Bus Tricks

This week, Grammy-nominated producer ill Factor’s back on the channel to teach mixing… With a tutorial on how to mix from your stereo bus, so you get better mixes quicker! It’s a more advanced mixing concept, but once you start using it on your mixes – expect them to improve by leaps and bounds. P.S. You can check out Breakthrough Mixing & Mastering...

Jun 2021

Brian May Lead Guitars – How To Arrange Solos & Melodies

If you’ve never produced lead guitars by yourself before, it can be daunting and scary. But it doesn’t have to be. With the power of your home studio, you can comp, punch in, edit, and craft killer lead guitar parts and arrangements even if it takes a few tries to get the performance right. In this week’s video, Chris Liepe shows you how to...

Jun 2021

Do You Make These 3 Guitar Mistakes?

There are 3 mistakes most people make when they’re recording and mixing guitar In The Box… And chances are, you’re making at least one of them each time you record and mix guitar in your home studio. In this week’s video, Chris Liepe breaks down what these 3 mistakes are… And how fixing them can take your guitar sounds to the next level.   The...

Jun 2021

Muse Guitars With Surf Sounds? Knights of Cydonia Breakdown

It’s easy to think rock guitars means just distorted, overdriven tones… But it’s much more than that. In this week’s video, Chris Liepe looks through the isolated guitar stems of Muse’s classic track, “Knights of Cydonia”… And decodes how frontman and guitarist Matt Bellamy layers unique, different guitar sounds to create complex yet rhythmic tracks…...

Jun 2021

Artic Monkeys’ Guitar Secrets – R U Mine Breakdown

The best way to see how to produce killer rock guitars… Is to break down and recreate the same sounds and performance of a great rock track. In this week’s video, Chris Liepe decodes the sounds and performances of the Arctic Monkeys’ hit, “R U Mine”… And shows you how to recreate those same guitar sounds in the box, without any real pedals or amplifiers…...

May 2021

Massive Rhythm Guitars With This

If you ever struggle to get your rhythm guitars to sound great in a mix, this new video is for you. You see, the trick to great rhythm guitar sounds isn’t to buy a new pedal, or to get a brand new amp sim plugin… It’s to use EQ, playing technique, and tone all together to create a wall of guitars just like a classic rock record. Check it out below:...

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