One of the best places to start when you sit down with a collection of recorded tracks for a song is the kick drum as this is the heartbeat and anchor of the entire mix. If the kick isn’t mixed properly or sitting right in the mix, everything else will be off. Typically the first […]
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I’ve been talking about ear candy elements to add to your mix as of late – elements which aren’t part of the bedrock of the mix but little surprises and touches to enhance things and keep your listener engaged. A delay throw is a common form of ear candy in that it’s something that’s best
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As both a mixing engineer who gets a lot of requests for it as well as an audio mastering engineer who gets a lot of completed mixes with it, mix fades are coming back en vogue. Whether you’re fading in or out in your next mix, let’s talk about the best way to mix fade.
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I’ve long talked about using two space-based effects in delay and reverb as Aux/Return sends in your mix. This allows you to save processing power in your mix and more importantly create a sense of cohesion by having a number of tracks sharing the same delay or reverb, giving them the sense they were recorded/are
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Reverb and delay are both spacial based effects to give your audio a sense of width and depth which isn’t inherent to the audio itself. This is useful when recording DI or an otherwise underwhelming acoustic space to give your audio more size. Applying these effects across your entire or the majority of your mix
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