While chorus isn’t a necessity on your vocals, lead or otherwise, I like to blend some in to give it a little more size across the stereo field. This can make your vocal pop when used in the right spots and in the right. Using too much chorus on your vocal and it begins to
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Along with EQ, compression is the most useful tool you having in your mixing tool belt. This is a tool designed to control and rein in dynamic range in your audio so that you get a more consistent level and more energy out of your audio. A lot of people either don’t know how to
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Drum loops are prerecorded drum tracks which seamlessly transition to repeat themselves without the listener’s knowledge. They’re the backbone of countless mixes, particularly in genres like rap and hip-hop. They’re so easy to plug and play in your next mix to knock out a lot of the work for you which is why a lot
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Return tracks are the “Aux” tracks of my DAW of choice, Ableton Live. If you press Ctrl+Alt+T in Windows, you’ll see a new return track pop up on the right. Let’s talk what return tracks are, how to use return tracks in Ableton Live, and most importantly WHY you should be using them. Return Tracks
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While we typically focus on the namesake of this site, that is audio mixing, we sometimes delve into ancillary topics in the world of music which brings us to today’s topic: the “Circle of Fifths”. The circle of fifths is a way of organizing pitches and harmonies based on the western scale of music which
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