Unlock The Tools That Produce Clean Drum Mixes And Professional Vocals 

These Are Your Two Bigggest Home Studio Problems

(Solve These Two Problems and You'll Instantly Improve Your Productions, Even If You Don't Have a Pro Studio and Without Buying Even More Plug-ins)

Most home studio musicians and bedroom producers struggle with two things:

1. Getting a punchy and powerful drum mix.
2. Producing a professional, clear, and full vocal sound.

Problem #1 - Dumpster Fire Drums

You start with the kick drum and no matter what you do it just sounds flabby.

The boominess overpowers the low-end and gives no room or definition to the bass guitar.

You can't find the right compression setting to keep the kick under control without making it sound over-compressed and lifeless.

Once you finally have your low-end tight you still can't get the snap of the beater to cut through the high-end, leaving you with a kick drum that's all oomph and no punch. 

When you turn to the snare drum you immediately hear tough problems jumping out at you. 

• There's an annoying ringing resonance that you just can't find.
• Whatever you do with your EQ, the snare either sounds too boxy or too thin.
• The hi-hat bleeds into the snare drum mic so much that it's almost impossible to get the snare to sit well without the hi-hat dominating your drum sound.

All you want is a powerful snare that drives the song forward, but all you're left with is a ringing snare that sits on top of the drums.

When the drummer plays a fill you hardly hear it because the toms are drowned out. When you push the volume up they just get in the way and sound detached, like somebody added a weird tom sample from another drum recording on top of the mix!

When you work on the overheads you can't get a good balance between the kick, snare, and the rest of the kit.

The drums were recorded in a boxy-sounding room so you try your best to EQ out as much of that hollow room sound but it always feels messy in the low-mids.

Every track you work on has that obvious amateur room reverb tail that you can't get rid of!

When you try to get your drums to sit forward in the mix they just end up getting in the way of the rest of the arrangement.

Adding reverb just makes it worse, muddying up the drum sound and leaves it sounding distant and under the rest of the mix.

After all that trial and error you might have a good beat going, often the rest of the instruments seem to fall into place.

And once you've mixed all the instruments to the drums, the only thing left is producing the vocals.

And that brings up a whole host of new problems.

Problem #2 - Weak Vocals

Chances are, you don't know if you're using the right microphone for your vocal.

You might not even be sure whether you're getting the correct levels on your interface when you're getting ready to record.

And when you place the mic in front of the singer, you get a small and noisy voice instead of the round, warm, and present vocal sound you hear on your favorite records

Even though you've experimented with different mic techniques, you either end up with a muddy, honky sound (like you're speaking with your hands over your mouth)...or you'll get a thin, sibilant voice that sounds too far away.

Once you think you got a decent vocal to work with, you still don't know how to use tuning, aligning, and editing to make your vocals sound tighter and more professional.

In the mix, you wish you could get the music and vocals to sound balanced. You wish you could find that perfect middle ground of big vocals that don't muddy up the mix.

Instead of full, rich, and thick vocals that pop out of the mix, you end up with a thin and harsh mess that's buried underneath the instruments!

Although you've tried all the Youtube tricks, like parallel compression, duplicating tracks and applying different processing on each vocal track, your vocals still don't sound like the professional recordings you like so much. 

Maybe you've all but given up trying to get great drum mixes and produce professional vocals in your home studio.

If that's the case, please don't give up yet!

Imagine if you could start creating professional, studio-quality drum mixes and clean and powerful vocal productions from your home studio, even if you don't have expensive equipment.

If you’re tired of dealing with shitty drum sounds and weak vocals and want to know exactly how to mix your drums and produce your vocals, then you might relate to this story:

When I was in a band in high school, we produced our first album by ourselves.

We set up a recording studio in our rehearsal space, got a few mics, a mixer, and got to work.

During the year-long process of recording, two things stood out as the biggest problems:

1. Our drum sound
2. Our vocal production

As a rock band, we wanted a powerful, punchy, and thick drum sound like the rock bands had at the time. However, with our limited mixing knowledge, it was hard to replicate.

And when we had finished the production, even with subpar drum sounds, we struggled to get a good vocal sound. 

We would set up a vocal session without having a clue what we needed.

We had the worst budget microphones and we had no idea where to position the mic so it often sounded thin and harsh -  a far cry from the powerful rock vocals we were looking to emulate.

If you’ve ever gotten a drum recording from a band and you’re immediately exhausted just thinking about how to transform those crappy drums into powerful drum mixes...

...or you've found yourself pulling your hair out because the vocals were out of tune and uninspiring...

...then you know how we sounded.

We were that band!

Luckily, things have changed since then and I've quite a bit about drums and vocals, but it's still a huge problem my audience faces.

Maybe you can relate?

It’s been a while since I was in that first band, and in the last decade or so I’ve learned a lot about tackling those problems.

My drum mixes now sound powerful and punchy

• I learned how to fix muddy drum sounds with specific EQ cuts.
• I discovered how to add punch and dynamics to the drum bus with multi-band compression.
• I figured out how to gate the drums to get rid of unnecessary bleed (GOODBYE HI-HAT HISS!).

And I learned how to blend the right drum reverbs into the mix to keep the drums present while staying out of the way of the arrangement.

Transient designers allowed me to add attack to dull-sounding drums.

They helped me get rid of the room reverb in my home recordings and gave me tighter tracks to work with.

And when that didn’t work, I turned to advanced drum sampling techniques to get whatever sound I wanted.

As for vocals...

• I learned to use EQ and compression to make the vocal come alive. 
• If I needed to subtly tame the vocals to fit in a dynamic ballad, it was easy.
• If I wanted the vocals aggressive and in-your-face for a rock recording, that was no problem either.

And with the right processing, I could find the exact point where the vocals would fit with the instruments without sounding glued on top or buried underneath.

After solving these problems for so long I realized that I had created my own type of toolkit to tackle each of these tricky situations.

Whenever I ran into a specific problem I had a tool that would solve it.

And now I want to share those tools with you...