We've been busy in the Insiders community in the last six weeks and we're nearing the end of our first round of "Music Monday Sessions."
In case you didn't know, we've been doing regular Monday sessions where I mix a song from start to finish and you get to watch the entire process from beginning to end, ask questions, and pick up tips and tricks to use on your own mixes.
If you're interested in joining us but you're still on the fence, here's what we've got coming up in the
next few weeks:
Schedule and Topics:
- January 9th: Automation, Mix Translation, and Mastering Preparation.
- January 23rd: Mastering and Finalizing Record for Release
- January 30th: Album Art Creation, Liner Notes, Proper Crediting
- February 6th: Online Release Walkthrough With CD Baby. PRO Registration of Song. Proper Releasing for Streaming Through Digital Distribution.
We've been working on one of my old folk rock tracks called "Beat Up and
Broken" that you can listen to here and I'm taking the opportunity to do a "reissue" with a new mix and master, with some additional bells and whistles in the instrumentation.
Awkward Fact: We A/B'd the current mix to the previous master and it kind of made me embarrassed how much better of a mixing engineer I've become since that song came out.
What I've been working on with the Insiders just sounds so much better...
But that's just the nature of continuous improvement.
The reason I'm using one of my own tracks is because my goal is to show you exactly what goes into finishing your mix so that you can be confident to release your records.
Even down to the nitty-gritty details of literally hitting the publish button inside our digital distributor.
After we release "Beat Up and Broken," we'll change genres from folk-rock to melodic hard rock, and remix the song "Flame (Burn With Me)" by Tom Kinsella featuring Chasing
Misfortune.
I mixed the released version a few years ago and you can take a listen to that song here.
It will be really fun to dive into those multi-tracks to show you the different approaches you take between different genres.
If you'd like to join our sessions, you can take the whole community AND Audio Issues Academy for a spin for only $1 for the next 30 days.
However, this $1 offer ends tomorrow so make sure you take advantage of it right now if you want in on all these music production sessions.
Click this link to join right now.
See you on the inside,
Björgvin