Our Favorite Microphones for Podcasting
Whether you’re looking to upgrade your podcasting setup or just getting started on your first transmission, here are 8 mics that’ll help you sound great!
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How to Create Headroom: 7 Tips That Will Save Your Mixes
Keep your mastering engineer happy by providing a decent chunk of headroom for them to work with, and don’t over-compress your mix too early.
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In Defense of the 128 Kbps MP3: The Greatest Music Media Format Ever
A short essay on why we should’ve never eaten the apple of industry-approved digital music streaming, and why the low-bitrate MP3 is all we really need.
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3 Awesome DIY Soundproofing Hacks for Your Home Studio
Don’t rely on audio repair and noise reduction software to solve all your problems. These soundproofing hacks will help you reduce noise right at the source!
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Bouncing Audio 101: How to Export Tracks From Your DAW
Exporting your audio track is the final step before mastering. Here’s how to make sure you’re leaving no stone unturned in your DAW.
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5 Essential Books for the Audio Engineer’s Shelf
Thinking of taking your audio recording and mixing skills to a higher level? These 5 inspiring books will help point you in the right direction!
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Our 8 Favorite Songs to Use to Test Headphones and Speakers
Here’s a playlist of songs meant to help you choose the right speakers and headphones for your mixing project, exploring dynamics, frequencies, and timbres.
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Mix Buss Compression Made Easy
+ Pursue your mixing and audio production goals with a Soundfly Mentor like Andrea! Soundfly offers four-week mentorship sessions with a pro, customized to you. Get in touch to learn more. How many of you are completely terrified of doing anything to the mix buss (a.k.a., “stereo buss” or “2 buss”)? It is real easy to mess up…
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Stereo Widening: 7 Simple Ways to Give Your Mix Width
+ Learning to mix at home? Preview a lesson in Soundfly’s online course Faders Up: Modern Mix Techniques for free, and subscribe for unlimited access. Let’s face it, most mixes don’t jump out of the speaker. They need stereo widening. Without a strong stereo image, your mix will struggle to achieve the expansive and immersive qualities for…
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From Discs to Digital: The Odd History of Music Formats
Physical formats have only been around since the 1870s — but in that relatively short amount of time, we’ve managed to come up with some pretty bizarre ways to release music. Each format on this list had its moment of usefulness. But looking back might make you ask “what were we thinking?” Regardless of how obsolete…
