My DAW of choice for the last 20 years since I got into recording and mixing audio has been Ableton Live. Ableton’s introduced a number of new and useful plugins to their stock collection in that time (which I’ve covered in full in my Ableton stock plugin tutorial). Unfortunately one of the most useful features […]
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No matter how you use it in your mix, automation adds life to a song. As I covered in my overview of mixing automation, this is the process of actively changing some aspect of a track while the song plays. Let’s talk how to automate in my favorite DAW of choice, Ableton Live, with a
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I recently talked about recording vocals with two mics and mentioned the value in recording with two mics as a stereo track for simplicity in the mixing stage. This allows you to more easily keep track of takes if and when you’re comping between multiple takes or even just saving you half the time when
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Knowing how to make stems in Ableton Live is necessary if say your DAW like mine is Ableton Live and you want to submit me a song for my song mixing services. Okay okay, there are plenty of other reasons you may want to make stems, such as for taking tracks from one song to
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My DAW of choice, Ableton Live, is arguably the best for affecting your audio in terms of timing. You can effortlessly (or near effortlessly) warp your audio in many ways to get it to fit new tempos or fix off time audio. The latter brings us to quantizing audio; if you’re not familiar, to quantize
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