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I’ve been doing a lot of live sound lately so I thought I’d talk about a few important comparisons between studio and live mixing. In many ways live is similar to studio mixing, but in some ways it is a lot different, particularly in smaller gigs where they don’t do a full sound check for [...]
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Since I talked about mixing in the last post, and I’ve been getting a lot of mastering work lately, I thought I would talk a little about mastering. Even more often than with mixing, people don’t know what mastering is or what the process entails. Some think mastering is just a process of limiting songs [...]
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While mixing may not be the most important part of the process, it is essential to creating a cohesive and complete song that has a life of it’s own. Sometimes mixing even gets overlooked or underestimated as a process, some assume it is simply a matter of getting the volume of each instrument right and [...]
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Delay is a great way of creating space and atmosphere in a track. Sometimes reverb isn’t right because it can blur the sound or cause mud. Of course this can also happen with delay, but when used properly, delay can maintain clarity while still creating a strong sense of depth and space. Tips for using [...]
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A lot of people love music, but not a lot of people pay attention to the credits on an album. Or, if they do, they aren’t sure what these people did to make the album happen. So I thought I’d explain some of these titles a little. Producer – Most of the time the producer [...]
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You gotta have good plugins to get a good sound. Below you will find links to all the good-sounding plugins you could possibly want and they’re all FREE Some great packs of plugins: Variety of Sound – Hands down Variety of Sound has the best free plugins I’ve found. All of them sound great, and [...]
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Part 1 of my series of explanations of popular effects An EQ or equalizer is an extremely powerful tool in the mixing process; probably every project I have ever done has included EQ somewhere in one or more of the effects chains. EQ is a tool for changing the frequency curve of a sound. Of [...]
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