Home Recording: Need-To-Know Essentials To Improve Your Mixes will quickly teach you the key elements that you need to know to transform your home recordings to professional mixes! Topics covered include: - Understand the impact your room has on your recording and mixes, and what you need to do to properly treat your space. - Need-to-know essentials so you spend your limited budget on the most impactful hardware. - Understanding when and why you need to use compression. - A simple approach to understanding the threshold setting on compressors and gates. - How to high pass filter, and why it's your most powerful mixing tool. - A mixing checklist to organize your workflow. - Advanced mixing techniques, such as parallel and serial compression, using distortion, multing, and comping. - Much, much more!! Over 30 illustrations show you exactly how a compressor's threshold setting works; the differences with patching effects insert vs send; how an EQ's "Q" control works; and more. Audio file links are also provided to demonstrate differences between budget and boutique hardware, effects of room treatments, key mixing concepts, and more. Downloadable resources also include checklists for mixing, critical listening, and recording sessions.
I'm Bob Desmarais, and I've been recording and mixing music for over 35 years. I'm also a guitarist, with well over 500 live performances. I own NHTunes, a recording studio and music lesson center that's located in Manchester NH's historic millyard. I have my MBA from Southern NH University, and guitar certificate from Berklee College of Music. In addition to running the recording studio, performing, and teaching guitar lessons, I also teach audio engineering and mixing classes through Manchester Community College.
