Perhaps more than any other genre, pop music may be the most difficult to master. It requires you to balance powerful lows with glistening highs, punchy dynamics and precise loudness. Not to mentio...
How To Tell When Your Mix Is Finished
One of the hardest parts of mixing is knowing when to stop. Most engineers have an innate desire to tweak things. It’s part of what makes us good at our jobs—we love to take things apart and tinker...
Why Proper Gain Staging Is Crucial To Any Mix
Gain staging is one of the most fundamentally important elements in creating a professional-sounding mix. Without proper gain staging, your mix may suffer from unwanted distortion or excessive nois...
Reducing Conflicting Frequencies
Producing is kind of like a musical puzzle. When all of the pieces fit into place, you can clearly hear the whole picture. But when two instruments are trying to occupy the same space, it can be di...
What to Listen For When Mastering
Mastering is one of the most important stages of the production process. It’s where you finalize your mix and apply the finishing touches. It’s also one of the most difficult parts of the productio...
7 Tips for Mastering if You're Not a Mastering Engineer
While it would be great to hire a world-class mixing and mastering engineer to finish off all of your productions, the reality is, most of us do it all. Producing, recording, editing, mixing and ev...
