You know when you've spent twenty minutes on an EQ, pressed bypass, and couldn't honestly tell which version sounded better? In 25 years of mixing, I've made just about every EQ mistake there is, and what surprised me, looking back, is how few of ...

You know when your bass sounds full and powerful in solo, then the moment the guitars and kick come in it either gets buried or turns the whole mix to mud? The instinct is to reach for the fader, but push it up and the low end fights the kick, pul...

If you've been putting in the hours and your mixes still aren't sounding professional, the problem probably isn't what you think it is. In this video, I go through five things that feel essential when you're starting out but actually don't matter ...

If your mixes sound almost right but something keeps nagging at you; a heaviness you can't shift, a sharpness that wears you down, a quality you can't quite name then chances are one of these four frequency areas is the culprit.

In this video I w...

Harsh mixes are rarely caused by one thing. What you're usually hearing is several sources — cymbals, guitars, vocals — each with their own dynamic harshness, all landing at the same time.

EQ feels like the obvious fix, but because harshness is d...

Channel strips are one of the most powerful tools sitting in most people's plugin folder, and one of the least understood. Open one up and you're faced with filters, compression, EQ, and a handful of buttons that don't explain themselves. So a lot...

If you've spent time pulling down the low mids and high-passing your tracks and the mix is still cloudy and unclear, this video is for you. EQ is often the first thing people reach for when a mix sounds muddy but it's not always the right tool for...

Most of us start learning to mix by focusing on tools. We learn what an EQ does, what a compressor does, how reverb works. And then we sit down at a session and we use them. Because that's what we've been taught mixing is.

But here's something th...

One of the most common things I hear from home studio producers is that mixing feels overwhelming before it's even begun. You open a session, you're faced with more tracks than you know what to do with, and instead of making confident decisions yo...

If you’ve ever felt like your mix sounds balanced but still sits on one flat plane, the missing piece may not be EQ or compression. It’s often how space is being created. In this video, I break down one of the most important depth cues our ears re...