The compressor attack is as important as the compressor ratio for determining how much your audio is compressed. Set this too slow and you won’t get any compression. Set the attack too quickly and you’ll completely remove the punchiness from your track. Let’s talk about the compressor attack and where you should set this to […]
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I’ve been mixing music professional for over 15 years now. I’ve used hundreds of plugins in that time, and over that time I find myself reaching for a select few time and time again. I thought I’d put together a list of the best plugins for mixing based on the ones I feature in literally
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As I recently covered with my bass guitar frequency chart, the bass and kick have a lot of overlap in their fundamental ranges. Typically the fundamental thickness of the kick which we feel just as importantly as hear peaks around 70Hz. This is right between the open A and D strings on the bass guitar,
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The bass guitar’s fundamental frequencies are heavily concentrated within roughly 150Hz of one another. Knowing this can help you better EQ your bass guitar, so let’s take a look at this bass guitar frequency chart to better understand the important frequencies of our bass guitar. Bass Guitar Frequency Chart Below 40Hz Short of drop tuning,
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I’ve talked at length about the compression settings in the past, including the compressor’s release feature. The release on a compressor dictates how long compression is still applied after the signal drops below the threshold. You can set this anywhere from instant to over a second. There’s typically also an option to set the release
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