How to Make Your Raw Recordings Crush Other People's Final Mixes

Published: Fri, 04/28/17

Hey everyone,

Happy Friday. What a week eh?

I got a couple things to tell you about today that you might be interested in.

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If you didn't get the Drum Mix Toolkit in this past week would you mind telling me why?

I’m not trying to sell you anything. I just want to understand you and your problems better to make cool content to help your productions.

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Learn How to Record Hard Hitting Rock Music 

If you record harder music like rock, hardcore, punk or metal you might like this free video series Jordan Valeriote is giving people this week.

It's called Hardcore Tracking and it's a free video series on recording hard rock music.

I watched the three videos this week and I am SUPER IMPRESSED.

It's like he's bringing you right into the studio and gives you no-nonsense advice on what you need to do to get great sounding recordings at the source.

When you're recording harder music like that it's even more important to get those sounds as clean as pristine as possible (ironically enough!)

Here are the three videos he's giving away this week, what you'll learn from them and my reactions to them and what I personally learned.

Click on any of the video thumbnails or links to watch his free workshop.

Video 1: Capturing Killer, Hard-Hitting Drums

  • In-depth walkthrough of how to mic up a drum kit
  • Hear what good raw drums should sound like at the tracking stage
  • Free bonus download: Drum Tracking Cheatsheet with go-to mics and positions for drums

My favorite technique from this video is how he mics the overheads. I need to try that out on this punk record I'm working on right now.

Video 2: How to Get a Powerful Guitar Tone Without Overcomplicating the Entire Process

  • How to mic a guitar cab
  • See the guitar chain & watch me dial in a guitar tone quickly
  • Learn a new mental framework for tracking guitars that will 10x your quality

I agreed with everything he said about keeping it simple when recording guitars. Overloading your guitar amp with unnecessary microphones is just a recipe for disaster!

Video 3: How to Track Rock Vocals that Leap Out of the Speakers

  • See my go-to vocal chain
  • Learn the comp-on-the-fly vocal tracking strategy to get the best takes and keep sessions moving quickly.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that he spent time getting the right take immediately instead of trying to get a bunch of passes and then just lifelessly comp the whole thing. Makes for a much better take in my opinion.

I hope you take away something cool to use in your next hardcore sessions.

If you want, let me know what was most interesting to you. Just hit reply and tell me. I read every email!

Have a great weekend,

Björgvin