How To Balance All The Elements In A Mix
Balancing channels in a mix is one of the most important skills in music production, and it's also one of the easiest things to overcomplicate. Producers often jump straight into EQ, compression, s...
The Perfect Monitoring Levels For Your Home Studio
We hear frequencies differently at different volume levels. Less bass when it’s quiet, more bass when it’s loud. That’s a problem. Because if your monitoring level is off, you’ll start making EQ d...
How To Give Your Chorus A Bigger Impact
TL;DR: Alex’s chorus lacked impact, making his track feel underwhelming. To fix it, we focused on dynamic contrast (so the drop slaps like it should), cleaning up the first beat (so the impact is...
Difficult Mastering Problems And How To Solve Them
What happens when you can’t ‘fix it in the mix’? Give up…? Or try some ninja skills to solve nasty problems in the master itself? You’ve got to roll out those ninja skills. In this blog post I'm ...
The Ultimate Guide To Preparing For Mastering
Are you tired of spending countless hours in the studio perfecting your mix, only to end up with lacklustre results after mastering? Do you want to take your music to the next level and achieve t...
How To Boost The Effectiveness Of Your Software-Based Studio.
In part one of this series, we discussed what you need to do to level up your room and recording chain. In part two, we'll explore what you need to do to boost the effectiveness of your software-ba...
