8 Tips for Mixing Bass in Home Recording Studios
8 Tips for Mixing Bass in Home Recording Studios 8 Tips for Mixing Bass in Home Recording Studios – The bass guitar is the foundation of many genres of music,…
What Is Mix Automation?
What Is Mix Automation? What Is Mix Automation? – Imagine a song that breathes, where instruments ebb and flow, and effects rise and fall to accentuate the music. This dynamic…
What Separates a Demo from a Polished Mix?
What Separates a Demo from a Polished Mix ? After hours of hard work, yes, we’ve all been there: that which we have mixed—which we have spent hours upon hours…
Aux vs. Inserts: to Send or Not to Send?
Aux vs. Inserts: to Send or Not to Send? Aux vs. Inserts: to Send or Not to Send? – The world of audio mixing offers a toolbox of effects to…
Synth VST Essentials Oscillators Envelopes and Filters
Synth VST Essentials Oscillators Envelopes and Filters It’s the twenty-first century. You can compose, produce, mix, master, and release a track, all from one computer, with hundreds of amazing products…
11 Tips to Fix Cheap Sounding Audio in the Mix
11 Tips to Fix Cheap Sounding Audio in the Mix 11 Tips to Fix Cheap Sounding Audio in the Mix – We’ve all been there. You pour your heart into…
What is Mix Depth? How to Create Front-Back Space
What is Mix Depth? How to Create Front-Back Space What is Mix Depth? How to Create Front-Back Space – In the realm of audio engineering, achieving depth in a mix…
2 Basic Approaches to Mixing
2 Basic Approaches to Mixing “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” This quote is attributed to the late-great Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. We could modify that to read…
Audio Dynamics 101
Audio Dynamics 101 Compressors, Limiters, Expanders, and Gates I remember one of my friends talking about compressors when we first started getting into music production. “I don’t really know what…
Compression in Mastering
Compression in Mastering Compression vs. limiting Compressors are different from limiters in that they let you work in longer timeframes, while limiters act as a safety, to prevent over-modulation of…
How 8 Tracks Can Shape a Song
How 8 Tracks Can Shape a Song You don’t need hundreds of layered tracks to produce a good record. In this post, learn how to use eight or fewer elements…
