8 Tips for Mixing Bass in Home Recording Studios It’s not uncommon to find yourself in a mixing situation with low-end issues. This is especially true in home studios. Maybe the room’s geometry swallows the bass or exaggerates the low-end. It’s safe to say no acoustician had any input whatsoever into […]
Monthly Archives: May 2019
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What Is Mix Automation? Everything You’ve Been Too Afraid to Ask Whether it was a music producer saying “I automated the EQ cutoff frequency to create an awesome filter sweep” or a sound engineer using “automation to ride the vocal track,” you’ve probably heard the word automation used a lot. […]
6 Times to Automate EQ for Effect For mixing engineers and producers alike, it pays to become intimately acquainted with the virtues of automation. Swooping sounds from left to right, enhancing emotion with level boosts, or fixing complicated problems with real-time adjustments—all of these moves separate the quotidian from the marvelous. […]
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 fixing up—sounds more like a demo than a record. First of all, don’t be too hard on yourself. Demos are […]
Simple FM Synthesis Sine Waves and Processors We often overestimate what we need in sound design. Sure we can use complex waveshapes and crazy processors, but we can reduce the process drastically and still achieve interesting results. In this article, we’ll show how FM synthesis and some simple processors and […]