Author Archives: wizkidsound

Getting Paid What You’re Worth

Figuring out how much your work is worth can be tricky, especially if you’re in a creative field. This is by no means a new problem, but technological advances over the past decade or two have made the problem slightly more interesting. It’s difficult to charge more than is expected With the massive increase in [...]

Maximize the Use of Your Tools

Live within your true means, in terms of money, ability, and utility, and you’ll know when you need to upgrade. It’s probably a bit longer than you think. When I first started recording, I set a budget for my equipment and bought as much as I could afford (which, incidentally, was an M-Audio Delta 44). [...]

Consuming Music in 2011

Since we’re probably all consuming massive amounts of turkey (or tofurkey) I thought it fitting that I talk about music consumption, too. What does it mean to ‘consume’ music these days? Ten or even five years ago, consuming music was pretty straightforward: buy mp3s, CDs, or listen to the radio. But things have changed a [...]

Releases: Book Club, Cynics, Gas & Graves, Wizard Smoke

April was a pretty exciting month for us here at Wizkid Sound. We wrapped up mixes for four records! Book Club‘s debut album is being mastered soon, release date to be announced. Featuring members of Cassavetes and Oryx & Crake, this Atlanta-based folk outfit has instruments out the and including the kazoo, and some awesome [...]

Wizard Smoke Releases “The Speed of Smoke”

Wizard Smoke‘s latest sludge assault, “The Speed of Smoke”, has been released. It is available as a free download at http://www.wizardsmoke.net, or on vinyl at Big Cartel or at one of their shows (April 29, 2011 at the 40 Watt and April 30, 2011 at the Drunken Unicorn). We had the, hmm…pleasure! yes pleasure, of [...]

Hot Tracks, Even At 23 Degrees

Man, it’s cold. But the Wizkid Cave is warm with tone and tape saturation (plugins). Time for some lists. What are we working on? Mixes for Solomon’s Road of Mobile, AL CJ Borden from Las Vegas Ari Zelig, who’s in Tel Aviv! Matt Benton who’s in Istanbul! What’s coming up? Tracking and mixing Book Club and Wizard Smoke [...]

Kontakt Video Tutorials

Fantastic series of Kontakt tutorials by Terrence Lennon: [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/10300791 w=500&h=283]

Mixing Solomon’s Road Album

We’re excited to be working with Solomon’s Road on their upcoming album. Check out the first track we’ve finished, “Not Kept Silent”. http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F6585158&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=f70000 Not Kept Silent – Solomon’s Road by Wizkid Sound

What’s the difference between compression and limiting?

I’ve been planning to write a post about compression for quite some time now. In my research for the post, I discovered that the editor in chief for Sound On Sound, Paul White, has already written the “Take It To The Limit – Concise Guide To Compression and Limiting”. So, rather than reinventing the wheel [...]

Slate Digital’s FG-X Mastering Processor Rocks

We’re really excited about a new mastering plugin from Slate Digital called the FG-X Mastering Processor. Slate Digital is the creator of the awesome Trigger Drum Replacer plugin, which we’re fans of. For quick mastering or reference mixes we usually use Massey’s L2007 Mastering Limiter (demo never expires!), which does a great job of getting [...]