Denver Recording Studio

You’ve gotten your mixes where they need to be.  Now they just need to be mastered.  Simple, right?  Wrong.  Mastering is never simple.

Need help creating fat, thick, in-your-face rhythms and searing hot, vibrant lead guitars?  Do you feel your tones are too muddy or “soft”, that you can’t make your guitar really come alive in the mix?  I’m here to help.

When making beats or mixing drums, it is very important to make sure that your kick drum is in tune with the rest of the music… When making hip-hop beats, it is EXTREMELY important!

For me, coming into CCM for the first time as a new intern opened up a lot opportunities for me. From getting a first impression of the studio as well as being brought in to see how the engineers work with their clients. After getting to know the engineers, i noticed that they all had their own genre and music preferences making [...]

At CCM studios we record a lot of different genres of music and placement of the vocals in the song is critical in the final mix. Place them too low and they will get masked by the other instruments in the mix… place them too loud and they become an unbearable ear-sore. The most important [...]

How should you track your drums?

Are you having trouble finding that right amount of compression to make your gel mix without creating a noticeable “pumping” volume effect?  Multiband compression may be just what you need.

Side-chain compression is your answer!

Creating a pulsating synth line is made easy with gates! Start by recording a synthesizer melody composed of long whole notes - chords or single notes work fine. Then choose which track the synth should pulsate along with - in most cases it’s the kick/bass drum. Now,

At CCM Recording Studios in Denver Colorado, we find EZ Drummer to be very effective and easy to use software instrument.  Once installed in your studio recording system, just open up the ad-on through your I/O and you’re ready to go.  Here at CCM Recording Studios in Denver, EZ Drummer is a great substitute for [...]