A personal opinion as I reflect on my self-taught journey

I’m a performing musician, and I just saw a YouTube short by someone who goes by L.I.O.N. and I had to share the epiphany their wonderful advice gave me.

I’m always wondering how the pros get mixed sounding as good as (OR BETTER) than being in the actual room. And I wonder how they do it when it’s filtered/bottle necked through two small foam cones and little ribbon tweeters.

Then I saw some post about recording a track of you physically clapping during your snare hits and how it makes your beats nicer (again, not so much a beat guy, more of a rock guy) however I tried opening my mind to the fact that it’s ok to use recording “trickery” to get nice crisp authentic sounding productions instead of spending hours trying to compensate for it in the mix.

This one in particular goes out to my fellow rock music makers out there, it’s not cheating to layer a clap on your snare to make it sound more “real” and present on a little tiny phone speaker. This is applicable to everything. We know you sound great live… now it’s time to pull out all the stops and use all the weird tricks in the studio that you can, because music is moving fast, but not as fast as you think. I’m listening to hey Jude and the clap with snare trick is a bit overt in this track, because that’s what they were going for. However, it’s useful for all genres not just the Beatles. Hope I helped someone today.