Posts by Craig Anderton

Craig’s Production Tips #5: How To Spice Up Your Electronic Snare!

Your electronic snare sounding dead and lifeless? Try these simple tricks to liven up your snare sounds - after all, it's one of the most important elements in any song or production.

Craig’s Production Tips #4: Try starting your mix in mono!

Here's a cool trick to try next time you're beginning a song project, one that can help you get you a clearer, more expressive mix at the end of the process! It's simple but enlightening...

Craig’s Production Tips #3: Build an amp sim cabinet with multi-stage EQ

Got the right amp sim but can’t find the right virtual cabinet? Make your own using multi-stage EQ! It's easy and will get you a sound tailored to your song - without mucking about with IRs.

Craig’s Production Tips #2: Use “glue” compression to subtly upgrade your mix

Your last mix sound sounds great. Kinda. Lots of signals sound good individually but don't coalesce into the mix you'd hoped for. "Glue" compression can make a huge difference - here's how.

Craig’s Production Tips #1: Balancing mixes without level changes

In the first of a new series of production tips for musicians, Craig Anderton writes about how to balance audio in a mix - without the volume fader. Try it out on your next project!