How To Use Music From YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music As A Reference Track
As the music consumption model moves from ownership to streaming platforms, producers are left with fewer reference tracks in their library to chose from. In this blog, I’ll show you how to use Mas...
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...
Compare EQ - The Ultimate Tonal Balance Tool
There have been a number of audio products released in recent years that can help you check your tonal balance against other songs. The documentation of these other products always points to their ...
Should You Remove Resonances During Mastering?
Resonances can destroy the magic of your music. They creep in as harsh, fatiguing spikes that distract the ear and make a mix sound unpolished. Even if you’ve cleaned up individual tracks, new reso...
How To Use Reference Tracks When Mastering
Before you touch a single EQ knob or tweak your limiter settings, stop and ask yourself—what am I aiming for? Mastering without a clear sonic target is like navigating without a map: you might get ...
How to Use Mid/Side EQ to Elevate Your Masters
Mid/side EQ is one of the most powerful—and misunderstood—tools in a mastering engineer’s arsenal. Used right, it can widen your mix, bring vocals to the front, tighten the low end, and reveal soni...
