PRODUCER SERIES
A PRIMER | Brandon Bee
The music world has been changing so much.
Even before Covid hit we were seeing worship
leaders and churches learning and investing
in recording equipment. With the desire to
connect with their church and the big ‘C’
church. Starting out as a producer before I got
into ministry I knew that just learning equipment
wasn’t going to automatically make recording
sound good. Producing, engineering, and
mixing are not only separate highly trained
skills but also different mind sets. This makes
mastering them all very difficult. Not to say
you shouldn’t learn to do it yourself, it’s just
important to honor the process and the work
it takes to be good at it. I wanted to start on
the first producer article with 3 practical ways
to help you get the right mindset. In the coming
articles, we will dive deeper into more specific
tips and tricks on how to make our home or
church recordings better.
PREPARE YOUR MIND TO THINK LIKE A PRODUCER,
ENGINEER, AND MIXER.
Ways to accomplish is
• Listen to your favorite or most influential
songs you have in your collection and try to
point out the instruments and parts that you
feel are foundational of the track.
• Listen to your song and try to write down
what kind of parts you could hear that could
be the foundation of your song.
• Listen for the kick and bass patterns.
• Listen to how much space is left in the higher
frequencies for the vocals.
• Hear the dynamic ups and downs. How they
use not only quiet and loud but also how they
us more or less, low frequency drop outs
and ins, more frequent movement or less
movement to accomplish dynamics.
134 July 2020
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