One of the keys to creating better and professional sounding mixes is to use busing in your DAW and mix. Buses establish a flow to the many tracks of your mix, keeping things organized and allowing for more effective processing. Let’s talk what is a bus on a mixer, why it’s useful, and most importantly […]
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An exciter is one of the more apt names for a plugin as you’ll find in the many types of audio effects in mixing. It can be very useful for adding some excitement, some life to a track, a bus, or your entire mix on the master bus. But what is an exciter, and more
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Punch is one of those words you likely hear A LOT when you’re learning about audio mixing. You may understand that punch is a GOOD thing, but might not know exactly what does punch mean. Let’s fix that with a very short and to the point definition, plus we’ll cover how to achieve a punchy
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Normalization in audio mixing terms relates to a process to affect the uniform volume of a track or tracks in your mix. Let’s identify what is normalize audio in mixing and music terms in general and more importantly should you normalize audio in your mix? What is Normalize Audio Let’s identify what is normalize audio
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Stereo imaging refers to the width of a track, bus, or your entire mix. There are a number of plugins which work to affect the width of these elements to narrow or expand upon how much two dimensional stereo space it takes up in the field. Let’s cover how we can use stereo imaging to
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