Pro Tools

Why Your Drum Mix Sounds Weak (And How Sample Layering Fixes It)
Video Tutorials

Why Your Drum Mix Sounds Weak (And How Sample Layering Fixes It)

I’ll be straight with you: I came to this tutorial as someone who spends most of his life in Photoshop, not Pro Tools. But the core problem Eyal Levi is solving here is one I recognize immediately from visual work. You’ve got something that looks (or sounds) fine in isolation, and then it gets completely swallowed the moment it sits next to everything else. For drums in a heavy mix, that’s a death sentence.

How to Edit a Live Concert Like a Film (And Why Your Current Approach Probably Looks Like a Broadcast Feed)
Video Tutorials

How to Edit a Live Concert Like a Film (And Why Your Current Approach Probably Looks Like a Broadcast Feed)

I spend most of my professional life in Photoshop, but every so often a project lands in my lap that pulls me outside that comfort zone. Last month it was a short promo film for a local Austin venue — three camera angles, live audio recorded on a Zoom H6, and the expectation that I’d stitch it into something that looked intentional. What I delivered was… fine. Functional. It looked exactly like what it was: a guy who edits graphics for a living pretending he knows how to cut video.