Apollo Soul Music

Tip #23 EQ before Compress? Or the other way around?

This isn’t so much a tip, but it has been the biggest debate in audio engineering. Ive seen the arguments both ways, and can see where people are coming from. I would like to put in my 2 cents. There is no right or wrong way with this its more preference and how you learned how to mix. I will say I personally EQ before Compression. Im going to break this down into why I do it this way, and not…

Tip #22 Kick and Bass Balance Trick

Do you run into the problem, when you can’t get your kick and bass balanced? I ran into this problem for years and it always took me so long to get them balanced right. Thankfully I have a solution for you! Also a plus is, this will take you all of 5 minutes! You’re going to need a VU meter, for me I used dorrough from Waves. Ill include a free one you can download, link at the bottom of this…

Apollo Soul – We Are Not The Same

Yesterday I released a new song on my Soundcloud titled “We Are Not The Same”. It was a totally random release, no hype for it, just something I was working on and wanted to show people what I was doing. Good vibes, Great vocal effects, and technical lyrics, makes this a great song to listen to anytime of the day. Enjoy, Download for free on Soundcloud! [soundcloud…

When Its Goes and Gets Rough…..

So since we’ve been on break from recording, I’ve doing a lot of thinking.  I sit here and think “how did we push ourselves that hard? be able to sleep like 20 a hours a week, and still make great music”. It all came from inspiration, and a drive to blast the internet with music, in an attempt to catch peoples attention. Lately I’ve just been tired a lot even if I get a full 8 hours at night. I…

Top 10 Plugins of 2016

This is a list of my Top 10 favorite/most used plugins of 2016! I’m not going to put these two plugins in the list as I have been using them forever: Waves SSLEQ and API-2500 Compressor. Top 10 Plugins (Not In Order) Waves – IMPusher Waves – Reel ADT Izotope – Vocal Synth Izotope – Ozone 7 Waves – Scheps Parallel Particles Waves – Waves Tune Real-Time Waves – Abbey Road Collection Waves – Butch…

Top 10 Plugins of 2016

This is a list of my Top 10 favorite/most used plugins of 2016! I’m not going to put these two plugins in the list as I have been using them forever: Waves SSLEQ and API-2500 Compressor. Top 10 Plugins (Not In Order) Waves – IMPusher Waves – Reel ADT Izotope – Vocal Synth Izotope – Ozone 7 Waves – Scheps Parallel Particles Waves – Waves Tune Real-Time Waves – Abbey Road Collection Waves – Butch…

Waves Tune Real-Time Plugin Overview

Recently I got the Waves Tune Real-Time Plugin from Waves. This is by far my favorite autotune plugin on the market, and heres why. Before this plugin it was a much longer process and I couldn’t hear what it was going to be like after I recorded. Now I’m able to record with the plugin on and hear what its going to sound like. I learned that with autotune you really have to record a certain way to…