How Mastering Trends Affect Your Sound
In this guest post by our friends at LANDR, we look at how when audio formats and listening habits change, so does the sound of our music inevitably.
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The Art of Creating Audio Stems of Your Tracks
Before you bounce 25 tracks of mostly silence and call it a day, here’s how you can creatively customize your audio stems based on your needs.
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Do I Need Mixing or Mastering for My Music? What’s the Difference?
A breakdown of the differences between the mixing and mastering process, and how you can tell whether your song is ready to be mastered by a pro.
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How to Choose the Perfect Kick Sample for Your Track
The right kick drum sound can make or break the energy of your song, and the way the rest of the instruments stand up in mixing. Here’s how to choose it.
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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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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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How to Not Piss Off Your Mastering Engineer
In the above video, a companion to our Mentored course, Faders Up I: Modern Mix Techniques, sound engineer and course instructor, Joe Lambert, explains why it’s important to keep a minimally limited (or compressed) version of your mixes on hand, and to make a second compressed version for listening purposes. Compression is a versatile tool that…
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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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Mastering: Decoding the ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of It All
+ Pursue your mixing or 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. Your music has been carefully recorded and painstakingly mixed, but there’s still one more step before it’s ready for the listening public: mastering. Mastering is the bridge…
