Secrets of the Pros:
Production, Mixing & Mastering Series
Want all the secrets from the legends?
What You'll Learn
With almost two decades of professional experience as a producer, recording, mixing and mastering engineer of hip-hop, pop and r&b music, this is a soup-to-nuts series explaining every aspect of the process in detail.
I’ve cherry picked the best techniques from the heaviest hitters, tested them, and added only the best to my process.
Don’t just learn what the pros do, learn why they do it
Check out lessons 1 & 2 below for free
Lesson 1
Recording techniques & building a beat
how professional recording engineers record and edit vocals
chopping samples, sound selection and layering
processing guitars to fit in the mix
Lesson 2808s & vocal samples
how to get an 808 sound that feels huge in the club and cuts through on Airpods
vocal sample placement and processing
re-amping dry samples for depth
Drums
Lesson 3how to choose the right drum samples
parallel compression
saturation as a cheat code
Groove
Lesson 4what is “groove” or “pocket”?
how to achieve groove
are you groovin’?
Lesson 5Arrangement & bus processing
turning loops into full songs
how to differentiate sections
what is on the beat bus and why?
Lesson 6Lead vocals
recording vocals
compression and eq
de-essing
Lesson 7Lead vocal FX
how to build a huge lead vocal sound
reverbs and delays
choosing moments for custom fx
Lesson 8Ad Libs & background vocals
recording and processing ad libs
background vocal mixing
how to blend it all together
Lesson 9Master bus processing
master bus philosphy
saturation, compression, eq
multiband compression, clipping and limiting
From My Clients“The depth and clarity Billy covers his production and engineering process with is incredible. The attention to detail, while never losing the forest for the trees, is the perspective every song craftsman should hope to achieve.”
Full Series Access
Lifetime access to parts 3-9 for an introductory price of:
$199 $99