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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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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How to Choose the Perfect Compressor Settings Every Time
Compression is one of your most powerful mixing tools. It’s the essential element behind every good mix. But to make your compressors work, you need to understand compression first. It’s intimidating to start learning such a huge subject, especially when the controls and their effect on your signal are difficult to understand depending on your…
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The “Green Apple Trick” for Recording Singers in a Session
The above video features recording engineer Tim Leitner, one of the star instructors of both our Faders Up mixing courses, I: Modern Mix Techniques and II: Advanced Mix Techniques, explaining a trick he uses to minimize mouth sounds in a vocalist’s performance in the studio. For more tips and techniques just like this, check out Faders Up I:…
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Mixing and Processing a Virtual Orchestra
Orchestral music doesn’t necessarily require EQ and compression to sculpt the sound you want.
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Student Spotlight, Volume 6: Listen to New Works by Student Artists
Another month, another round up of some of the best student work here on Soundfly! This month, we have a budding producer pushing himself to create full tracks, a field recordist mixing works for a museum piece, a couple songwriters crafting new tracks, an orchestral artist transforming his sound, and some artists looking for a…
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The “Top Down” Mixing Technique
Illustration by Gabriel Alaca + What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll help you reach them. Tell us what you’d like to achieve and our team of professional musicians, educators, and music industry veterans will help you get there! “Top Down Mixing,” or the practice of starting your mixing process at the stem/master…
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Faders Up II: Meet Our Pro Instructors
Interested in learning about pro-audio mixing techniques? Preview Soundfly’s online mixing courses, Faders Up I: Modern Mix Techniques and Faders Up II: Advanced Mix Techniques today. Each 6-week course combines tips and perspectives from today’s top sound engineers with 1-on-1 professional mentorship from a Soundfly Mentor. Sign up for either Faders Up course now and take 30% off with promo code: FRIENDOFTHEFLY. We’re…
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How to Get More From Your Samples Using Transposition
+ Learn to create and arrange original, instrumental hip-hop music from sampling pioneer RJD2 himself in his new course on Soundfly, RJD2: From Samples to Songs. Here’s a step-by-step guide to pitch-shifting, finding the key, and warping. When you’re working with samples, the pitch is key! You found that perfect sample, but there’s one problem… It doesn’t fit with…
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Student Spotlight, Volume 5: Listen to New Works by Student Artists
Each and every month, we start a new Mainstage session, welcoming in a fresh batch of uniquely talented student-artists ready to step up their game and take their music further than ever before. Our team of Soundfly Mentors works with these creative artists, striving to help them reach their learning goals and build confidence in…
