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The Best Plugin for Controlling Harshness Without Making Your Mix Dull

The Best Plugin for Controlling Harshness Without Making Your Mix Dull

The best plugin for controlling harshness without making a mix dull is one that only cuts a harsh frequency at the moment it flares up, like RESO by Mastering The Mix, oeksound soothe3 or FabFilt...

Full Mix Relative EQ

Full Mix Relative EQ

Brightness and weight are not things a channel has on its own, they are things it has compared to everything around it. A walkthrough of the CARBON Q EQ: every channel sharing the same eleven fixed...

RESO by Mastering The Mix compared with soothe3, Pro-Q 4, Smooth Operator Pro and Curves Resolve

What Is the Best Plugin for Finding Harsh and Resonant Frequencies?

The best plugin for finding harsh and resonant frequencies finds them for you, lets you hear them, then only turns them down when they ring. Here is how RESO does that, and how it compares with soo...

The Volume Balance Blueprint

The Volume Balance Blueprint

Most mixes that are not working have a level problem, not a tone problem. Here is how CARBON Q reads the volume balance of every channel in your session, how to borrow the balance of a record you l...

How To Mix Honestly On Headphones

How To Mix Honestly On Headphones

Headphones flatter your mix in three specific ways. Here's the LEVELS + REFERENCE 3 workflow that catches each one before it ships.

How To Make A Vocal Cut Through Without Pushing The Fader

How To Make A Vocal Cut Through Without Pushing The Fader

Stop reaching for the vocal fader. Learn the three-step move with RESO, MIXROOM and FUSER that lets a vocal cut through without burying the mix.