Engineers and producers: do you make any of these thirteen common mistakes when mixing your own music? We bet you do.
Tag: gain
What Is a Mic Preamp, and Why Do I Need One?
A beginner’s guide to microphone preamps, the various types and their uses, and when to invest in a high quality preamp for your studio.
How to Make Your Mixes Louder (the Right Way)
Is everything sounding louder these days? It’s not just you, it’s a growing trend in all genres of music. Here’s how you can get your mix sounding loud too.
Gain Staging: We Should All Be Doing It
Using gain adjustments from recording through mixing will help your track come out crisp and free of distortion, and make your master sound better too.
8 Tips for Mixing an Entire Album So It Sounds Consistent
Just finished recording a collection of songs and you want to combine them in a full-length album? Make sure they sound consistent with these 8 tips.
How to Avoid Muddiness in Your Mix
Why it’s important to avoid muddiness in your song’s mix and some tips on how to isolate frequencies and sounds so they don’t overlap and create chaos.
Gain Staging: How to Get a Better Mix with Healthy Levels
Learn the basics of how to create better mixes of your music, no matter where…
Bang for Your Buck in a Box: A Rainbow of Great Guitar Pedals Under $200
With the explosion of boutique guitar pedal manufacturers in recent years, there’s never been a…
Equalization 101 – Everything Musicians Need to Know About EQ
Interested in learning more about audio-mixing techniques? We’re working on a new mentor-driven course featuring…
14 of the Most Commonly Confused Terms in Music and Audio
Once upon a time, remixing a song meant actually redoing the mix. Many vintage consoles (some Neve 80-series,…