Hometracked is a blog and resource for indie artists, amateur recording engineers, and music producers.
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If this is your first time here, you might enjoy browsing some of my past articles. I’ve listed the most popular below.
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Advice for Home Recording Beginners
- 10 common traits of amateur recordings
- The Rule of Mixing
- The Big Page of Mix Tutorials
- Improve your recordings with better vocals
- Mix for your listeners
Business and Promotion ideas for indie artists
- Top 5 ways I’ve made money as an indie artist
- Winning money in song contests
- Music Sales Widget Feature Comparison
- Understand the future indie music market
- Big Label Problems mean Opportunities for Indie Artists
- Andrew Dubber’s 20 things you must know
Recording
- Recorderman overhead drum mic technique
- 5 ways to improve your recordings today
- Microphone transient response
- Recording with a cheap microphone
Mixing
- The Big Page of Mix Tutorials
- The best free vocal plugins
- Tips for using EQ on vocals
- Choosing the best bit depth
- The importance of a mix reference
- Create stereo tracks from mono sources
- Parametric EQs – Cut narrow, boost wide
- Avoid inter-sample peaks
- Get fatter drum tones with parallel compression
- Free commercial drum references
- Better drum mixes with a drum reference track
- Distortion and tape saturation for better mixes
- Sample rate and the myth of accuracy
- Using distortion for brighter mixes
- Using phase inversion to hear small changes
- Reverb for a heavier kick drum tone
Tools
- Monitor speaker tests
- DIY reverb units
- DIY speaker / monitor stands
- Mod your ribbon mic: Part 1, Part 2
- Ribbon mic sag and repair
- Download Paris EQ VST
- Download Drumtrig VST drum replacer
- Free drum replacement plugins
Articles & Opinion pieces
- Autotune in pop music
- Online music collaboration
- Recording bloopers that made it onto the album
- All Linkin Park songs look the same
- Avril Lavigne, copyright, and pop music arrangement
- Protect your ears!
- Which ear is best for mixing?
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