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.
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 60 seconds shot talking-head on phone
Why your mix sounds fine in headphones but falls apart the moment someone plays it on their phone speaker
Side-by-side before/after audio clip with on-screen waveform, CapCut-edited, under 60 seconds
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
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
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.
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
Why your mix sounds amateur and it has nothing to do with your interface, your room, or your plugins
Contrarian-take talking-head Reel under 45 seconds, shot on phone, one strong claim delivered straight to camera
Automated mastering made your track louder — it did not make it better, and here is the exact thing it cannot fix
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
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.
Side-by-side before/after audio clips with on-screen waveform or plugin visual, CapCut-edited, under 60 seconds
This is the exact same bedroom pop vocal before and after low-mid cleanup — no new plugins, just different decisions
Contrarian-take talking-head Reel under 45 seconds, shot on phone, one strong claim delivered straight to camera
I told a client their mix needed work before mastering — they were frustrated, then they heard the difference
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
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.
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
What you actually get for a $175 mix that a cheap automated master cannot give you — broken down in plain language
Contrarian-take talking-head Reel under 45 seconds, shot on phone, one strong claim delivered straight to camera
How to send your stems so the session starts right — and why most artists lose time and money by skipping this step
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
I am a real engineer sitting with your tracks until they translate — here is exactly what that means and how it works
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 60 seconds shot talking-head on phone
Why your mix sounds fine in headphones but falls apart the moment someone plays it on their phone speaker
Side-by-side before/after audio clip with on-screen waveform, CapCut-edited, under 60 seconds
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
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
I opened a client's indie-folk session last week and the vocal was perfectly in tune — and completely wrong
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
Why your mix sounds amateur and it has nothing to do with your interface, your room, or your plugins
Contrarian-take talking-head Reel under 45 seconds, shot on phone, one strong claim delivered straight to camera
Automated mastering made your track louder — it did not make it better, and here is the exact thing it cannot fix
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
What 'it is not translating' actually means — and the three specific things a mix engineer checks to find out why
Side-by-side before/after audio clips with on-screen waveform or plugin visual, CapCut-edited, under 60 seconds
This is the exact same bedroom pop vocal before and after low-mid cleanup — no new plugins, just different decisions
Contrarian-take talking-head Reel under 45 seconds, shot on phone, one strong claim delivered straight to camera
I told a client their mix needed work before mastering — they were frustrated, then they heard the difference
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
What I fixed in a muddy drum bus that the artist had tried to solve with four different plugins over two months
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
What you actually get for a $175 mix that a cheap automated master cannot give you — broken down in plain language
Contrarian-take talking-head Reel under 45 seconds, shot on phone, one strong claim delivered straight to camera
How to send your stems so the session starts right — and why most artists lose time and money by skipping this step
Single-problem diagnosis Reels under 45 seconds shot talking-head on phone
I am a real engineer sitting with your tracks until they translate — here is exactly what that means and how it works