While some mixing and mastering engineers might roll their eyes at this, most clients want a louder mix. And it’s not for nothing – despite the “normalization” if you will of normalized audio on most streaming services, a louder finished song still sounds “better” than a quieter song when played back to back whether that […]
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Autotune is an effect used to either save yourself time tuning up a vocal or creating some interacting aesthetic effects in your mix (as I covered in my recent overview on how to use autotune). Let’s talk what is the best autotune as I’ll be offering up both a free and premium option for getting
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There are all kinds of setups for recording drums with different microphones, but oftentimes your setup might come down to the gear you have. This extends both to the number of microphones you have as well as the number of inputs your recording hardware can simultaneously capture at once. Recording drums with two microphones in
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A gate has a lot of practical applications in your mix. In its simplest form, you can use it to clean up your mix by eliminating low(er) level bleed from other instruments or the environment. One common application to that end is to gate your drums to remove bleed from say your kick drum. We
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When we think of instruments and types of audio to use the effect of chorus on, bass isn’t usually the first thing which comes to mind. That said, in the right contexts, chorus can be a valuable effect to achieve more fatness, lushness, and size to your bass. Let’s talk chorus bass and how to
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