Up there with compression in its essential music production status, EQ (short for ‘equalisation’) is one of the most powerful effects in your mixing toolbox, enabling shaping of the frequency [...]
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If you’re just starting to dive into the world of recording, then chances are you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed. There’s a lot that goes into capturing clean audio, but it [...]
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If you’ve ever seen the inside of a high-end recording studio, you can’t help but have noticed the number and variety of monitor speakers mounted in the walls, on [...]
Keep kicks, snares, basses and vocals central While it can be all too tempting to go nuts with the panning controls in your DAW’s mixer, splaying mix elements out [...]
It all starts with a quality recording Perhaps unsurprisingly, you can only hope to conjure up a top notch drums mix from top notch source material, so make sure [...]
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1. Listen to music you hate Everyone enjoys listening to different styles of music, but very few people listen to stuff they don’t enjoy. I blame the iPod (and [...]
Live streaming has become a seriously huge part of media culture and it’s spawned entirely new genres of entertainment for people to consume on a daily basis. From the small [...]
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Intro How many musicians and audio engineers are using hearing protection these days? The answer is not enough. As a musician and/or audio engineer you whole career relies on [...]
Andy Huckvale Intro Composing is an art form that has often meant capturing the attention of an audience. Whether it's Mozart being commissioned to compose chamber music for the elite [...]
Keep kicks, snares, basses and vocals central While it can be all too tempting to go nuts with the panning controls in your DAW’s mixer, splaying mix elements out [...]
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What does this article cover? • A 10-Step Guide to an affordable home studio • Tips on when to spend and when to skimp • Get professional-quality sounds without needing [...]
Clocking together digital devices is often seen as a bit of a mysterious dark art, especially when the setups start getting more and more complex. The Basics Simply put, in [...]
Intro Drivers are something that most of us seem to glance over. We install them once and then move on, forgetting how important they actually are. Well for those [...]
