EQ is one of the most important effects/plugins to master in your mixing. It gives you the ability to sculpt the tone of your audio in every track of your mix. It also creates space for every track in your mix so that it fits together sonically. With all of that in mind, I’ve put […]
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When you’re trying to get better at mixing, you might check out a site like MusicGuyMixing.com here to read a tutorial or two. And while you’re there, you might run across a particular term mentioned like, oh, I don’t know, what feels like a THOUSAND times but it never gets explained. Let’s end the confusion
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Stereo imaging and widening plugins are nice when you need to simulate some width on a track, making that track seem larger via the stereo field. Even better when you’re still in the recording phase is to try using a natural approach to generating width on an instrument: the mid side mic technique. This technique
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The main thing which differentiates microphones is their polar pattern. Microphone patterns refer to how much sound they’ll pick up relative to which way they’re facing. Different polar patterns are useful for recording different things, so let’s cover the various microphone patterns, how they work, and what to use them to record. Polar Pattern Guide
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Mid side EQ allows you to boost or attenuate the frequency range on audio in the center of the mix differently than the audio on the sides. This allows us to make changes with greater specificity as opposed to making an EQ adjustment over the entire stereo image all at once. We can use this
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