Aftertouch's 30-Day Calendar
Each piece is a fully planned content brief.
Three of these pieces include a full Production Pack — look for the tag. Open one to see the full brief.
Posting times shown in Pacific Time (PT) — adjust to your audience's timezone in your scheduler.
Week 1
You know something is wrong. Here is how to name it.
Why your mix sounds fine in headphones but falls apart the moment someone plays it on their phone speaker
The first thing a real engineer checks when they open your session is not your limiter — it is what is living in the low-mids around 250 Hz
I opened a client's indie-folk session last week and the vocal was perfectly in tune — and completely wrong
Week 2
What a trained ear catches that yours cannot yet.
Why your mix sounds amateur and it has nothing to do with your interface, your room, or your plugins
Automated mastering made your track louder — it did not make it better, and here is the exact thing it cannot fix
What 'it is not translating' actually means — and the three specific things a mix engineer checks to find out why
Week 3
The transformation is real and the proof is in the file.
This is the exact same bedroom pop vocal before and after low-mid cleanup — no new plugins, just different decisions
I told a client their mix needed work before mastering — they were frustrated, then they heard the difference
What I fixed in a muddy drum bus that the artist had tried to solve with four different plugins over two months
Week 4
This is how it works, what it costs, and how to start.
What you actually get for a $175 mix that a cheap automated master cannot give you — broken down in plain language
How to send your stems so the session starts right — and why most artists lose time and money by skipping this step
I am a real engineer sitting with your tracks until they translate — here is exactly what that means and how it works
Why your mix sounds fine in headphones but falls apart the moment someone plays it on their phone speaker
The first thing a real engineer checks when they open your session is not your limiter — it is what is living in the low-mids around 250 Hz
I opened a client's indie-folk session last week and the vocal was perfectly in tune — and completely wrong
Why your mix sounds amateur and it has nothing to do with your interface, your room, or your plugins
Automated mastering made your track louder — it did not make it better, and here is the exact thing it cannot fix
What 'it is not translating' actually means — and the three specific things a mix engineer checks to find out why
This is the exact same bedroom pop vocal before and after low-mid cleanup — no new plugins, just different decisions
I told a client their mix needed work before mastering — they were frustrated, then they heard the difference
What I fixed in a muddy drum bus that the artist had tried to solve with four different plugins over two months
What you actually get for a $175 mix that a cheap automated master cannot give you — broken down in plain language
How to send your stems so the session starts right — and why most artists lose time and money by skipping this step
I am a real engineer sitting with your tracks until they translate — here is exactly what that means and how it works