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Mixing and Mastering Tips
Why Using Mastered Tracks as Reference Can Pump up Your Mixes
One of the indispensable tips in mixing is comparing your mix alongside a mastered track or what is called a reference track. I mentioned this briefly in my last post Mixing Tips to Live By but want to expand on this a little...
Mixing and Mastering Tips
Mixing Essentials: Mixing Tips to Live By
Mastering the art of mixing music is not an easy task for home recording musicians. Great mixing engineers are themselves artists, as are singers, songwriters, musicians, producers and DJ’s. For us mere musician mor...
Tips and Tutorials
How to Get Your Music Onto Spotify
When Spotify took the world by storm by opening its music streaming service to users in America, every independent artist wanted a piece of the pie. And with good reason. To date, there are more than 15 million users...
Mixing and Mastering Tips
Using Compressors for the Overall Mix: Part 2
by Rick Saxby In Using Compressors for the Overall Mix: Part 1, I focused on using a bus compressor to help mix your songs. In part two I will focus on using a mastering compressor after you are finished with the mix. I typ...
Mixing and Mastering Tips
Mixing Essentials: Quick Tips to Avoid Ear Fatigue
Mixing music in your home studio tends to run long hours when you become engrossed in your work. After a period of time, you start to notice that everything is starting to sound monotonous, preventing your ears to catch those t...
Home Studio Setup
How Choosing the Right Microphone Makes the Difference
Setting up gear in your home recording studio requires you to select the most essential part of your studio’s equipment. Choosing the right microphone is one step that should not be overlooked, if you want to create the best ...
Mixing and Mastering Tips
Using Compressors for the Overall Mix: Part 1
by Rick Saxby Mixes tend to come out better when audio engineers mix with their hearts and not just their heads. It can take a while to get to that point though. For example, any baseball player first has to learn the fundament...
Mixing and Mastering Tips
Your Album’s Production Quality Matters
by Rick Saxby To me there are three kinds of mixes: First, there is the mix that has no hope at all. Even if the mix was sent to a top-of-the-line, major league mastering engineer, it still doesn’t matter because the mix ...
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