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Gain Staging – the bank account of your mix!
GAIN STAGING “Damn, if only your bank account had enough head- room! But you’re hitting the red zone all too often, start calculating and things become uncomfortable. Sounds familiar?” Exactly how people feel about their gain structure in mixing – “Gain Staging” being the strategy you chose to use your bank account of dBs, if…
[ All About the Vocals – recording, editing, mixing vocals ]
VOCAL RECORDING – PREPARATION I know this is not directly related to mixing, but a great vocal performance and recording is the best foundation for a quality vocal in the mix – so if you’re in charge of vocal production, here are some ideas for you. Getting this right can save you a lot of work…
[LEVELS, REFERENCE, EXPOSE – Mastermind Tom Frampton] | Your Mix Sucks Podcast
Tom Frampton (aka masteringthemix), is the mastermind behind one of the most successful new plug-in companies. Their products LEVELS and REFERENCE as well as the standalone application EXPOSE are helpers in a world where the “loudness war” has seem to found its end. The streaming platforms now require producers and audio engineers to look into…
Analogue Overkill?
QUICK LINKS: YOUR MIX SUCKS • MIX TEMPLE • MASTER FEEDBACK If you see my studio, you’ll be laughing about the title of this blog-post (“Analogue Overkill”) – there is a 48 Channel / 104 Input SSL 4000G-Series Console and 20 Channel SSL X-Rack Summing System fed by 68 Channels of D/A-conversion, different flavours of…
Headphones for Mixing
I’m receiving questions around headphones for mixing on a daily base – for obvious reasons! Many of us mix in different places all the time, we travel and work from bedrooms, hotel-rooms or trains – in situations where headphones are the only viable solution to get some work done. As you might know, my Mixing…
Mix Preparation, DAW Templates and Mix Referencing
Mixing is 80% preparation and 20% inspiration… However, mix preparation is NOT mixing. Ideally, it is a process separate from the actual mixing. Many top engineers delegate this to their assistants, to be able to start the mix with fresh ears. It’s NOT a trivial task – those assistants working with the world’s best…
It’s All About the Vocals – complete tutorial on mixing vocals.
Once we have created a frame for our mix via solid mix preparation (which is a post for another time), it’s time to focus on the vocals – in many cases the most important instrument in the mix. The human voice is the most complex instrument we have to deal with, and you have to…
Classic EQ Types and how to use them in your mix.
This is a look at the most popular classic types of EQs, from my best-selling book “YOUR MIX SUCKS”. The book is a Complete Mix Methodology for the entire process from DAW preparation to delivery. Before we dive into specific types of EQs, and where to use them, know that you will need to use…
The Domino Effect, and what it does to your mix
This post is about cause and effect, and why things have to be done in the right order. I’m receiving a lot of e-mails from people who ask me to review and comment on their mixes, many even offer me money to do this as a service. The e-mails go something like „what’s the single…
PRESSWERK: 50 Shades of Compression
In a previous post on compression, I looked into using compressors as „toneboxes“, and put a few classic compressor emulations through a test setup that would make their harmonic distortion visible, using a test oscillator and frequency analyzer. A number of readers immediately asked me to share my opinion on the beta-version of u-he’s PRESSWERK,…