Free Guide · For Media Composers
Seven Production Moves That Take a Mockup From Amateur to Release-Ready
You can already write. This is about the production that makes your cue sound like the reference track the supervisor sent over. A free guide covering seven of the fixes most composers miss in the last 10% of the mix.
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What's Inside
Five things you'll hear change.
- You'll be able to hear exactly what's separating your cue from the tracks getting placed, and know which move closes the gap.
- Why your mockup still sounds flat and 2D even when the writing is strong, and what finally gives it the depth of a real recording.
- How a stack of different libraries stops sounding like a pile of libraries and starts sounding like one ensemble.
- Your lead punching through a dense mix without you just turning it up.
- Getting your track loud enough to hold its own in a supervisor's inbox without squashing the life out of it.
Whose Guide Is It?
I'm Dan Tauber. My music has scored campaigns for Dune: Part Two, The Marvels, Diablo IV, Valorant and Call of Duty: Mobile, and I've tracked the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road. These are seven of the moves I reach for on real cues, on real deadlines.
The complete system behind them is what I teach in my course, Make Your Music Sound Pro.
