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Reverb Mixing Tricks to Elevate Your Mix
Learning how to use reverb is an essential mixing skill. Time-based effects have the ability to add width and dimension to your mix, and give instruments their own sonic space. Reverb is often used to push mix elements further back,…
The Best Tips for Using Reference Tracks
Trying to match the intensity and sonic quality of a commercial release is no easy task. It’s incredibly challenging, whether you’re an experienced professional or trying to mix for the first time. Using reference tracks is an essential technique when…
FAQ Friday at NAMM
Focal Trio11 Be Review (Studio Monitor Review)
Adam Ayan: Mastering Paul McCartney, Katy Perry…
Adam Ayan is a GRAMMY-, 5x Latin GRAMMY-, and TEC Award-winning mastering engineer who works out of Bob Ludwig’s Gateway Mastering in Portland, Maine. Adam graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell’s Sound Recording Technology program in 1997 before starting…
Mixing Lead R&B Vocals with Bob Horn
Bob Ludwig: The Mastering Engineer’s Mastering Engineer
Reference Tracks: How to Use Them and Mistakes to Avoid
Reference tracks are used as a guideline while mixing. They can be supplied by the artist to demonstrate a desired aesthetic, or chosen by the mix engineer as a standard to go by. Using reference tracks can help us craft…
What is Reverse Reverb? Should I Be Using It?
Reverse reverb, sometimes called reverse echo or reverse regeneration, simply takes the reverb tail of any instrument and reverses it. Creating it is a matter of printing the wet signal of a reversed audio track. Reverse reverb is typically accompanied…
How Much Low End is Too Much? | FAQ Friday
5 EQ Mistakes We Make While Mixing
Eric Boulanger: World Class Mastering Engineer
The Best Tips for Producing and Mixing Guitars
A huge part of what we do as producers and engineers is not only make things sound great, but also make sure our musicians are inspired along the way. This is true for virtually all aspects of the music production…
Should I Be Using Sidechain Compression?
Sidechain compression is a common “advanced” mixing technique. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Should I use sidechain compression here?,” the answer is “Give it a shot!” It uses are somewhat particular, but sidechaining generally creates more separation, more rhythm, or more…
Make a Mix Sound More Exciting | FAQ Friday
Scott Baxendale: Acoustic Conversion Process
Joe Napolitano: Songwriter, Producer, & Engineer
Bradley Cook: Recording Engineer (Foo Fighters, QOTSA)
10 Helpful Tricks for Mixing Guitars
Many of us are guitarists, and most of us probably love to geek out on gear and tone as much as we like to actually play. After all, finding our individual “holy grail” tone is half of what makes playing…
15 Essential Mixing Tips for Better Mixes Today
Mixing music requires technical ability as well as the creativity to make a song interesting to listeners. Mix engineers firstly possess the technical knowledge of audio signal flow, DAW and/or console operation, and how to use signal processors, whether in…
Mixing a Vocal Duet | FAQ Friday
Barefoot Recording Studio Tour with Tim O’Sullivan
