November 2023


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Gated Reverb Drums Tutorial – How to Use Gated Reverb on Drums

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I recently talked about gated reverb and how it works well on a number of instruments. The idea is that the audio you apply the gated reverb to is soaked with reverb while it’s playing, but as soon as it stops, so does the reverb. This eliminates the tail, giving you the depth of reverb […]

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Hold and Release in Audio Mixing – What Is the Difference?

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Hold and release – you’ve seen both settings on your compressors, gates, and other plugins. They both lengthen the effect of that plugin by a time length of your choosing, so what’s the difference? Let’s quickly identify the difference between hold and release. Hold and Release Both settings work together typically alongside a threshold on

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How to Use a Hard Clipper to Repair Clipping Audio or Get More Volume

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I’ve talked a lot about the importance of gain staging in your mix. Not only does this prevent clipping (see my overview on what is clipping), but it feeds a better (lower) input level into your plugins which yields better results from those plugins. Let’s say for argument’s sake you’re working with a track which

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