Awesome music mixing can take a well recorded track to a completely different level. The following articles span everything from setting correct levels, using EQ and compression correctly as well as sprinkling your mixes with effects.
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Attention to detail is good. Being sloppy is bad. But extremes on either sides are even worse. Sloppy editing calls for a tedious mix, but if you’re mixing with every …
I unwittingly did this incredible exercise yesterday. I was starting work on this mix and did all the usual stuff: Grouped similar instruments togethe ...
I saw Iron Man 3 yesterday. It was awesome. Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark is possibly the best movie interpretation of a comic book character th ...
After a long week of mixing a smokin’ hot album, it’s time to stop and master all the different tracks together. Will you be mastering you ...
A reader writes in with a question about how to EQ bass guitar: On my recording, I’m using a sub-synth for the bass. It sounds good on stereo with good ...
The drum sound is the backbone of any mix. The bass drum keeps the pulse going, the snare drives the rhythm forward and the feel of the drum beat is ...
I found this really handy picture that breaks down the acoustic guitar EQ in the frequency spectrum. Each frequency range in the image corresponds to a specific character in the ...
Got this question from a reader: I recorded in garageband, which they say records in mono. While playing the music over my two studio speakers it sounds great. When I play ...
Without further ado, I give you my top 12 mixing tips you can use in any mix. Whatever the genre, these mixing tips work on every mix, and they’re so ...
More instruments in a mix means more work. Once you start adding in more stuff that once wide-open frequency spectrum starts getting smaller and smaller. So how do you carve ...
