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Tag: sound engineering
Checking Your Mix as an Artist: How to Decide if It Sounds “Right”
Your mix will sound different depending on the speakers, location, time of day, and even your mood. How do you know when it really does need to change?
Talking Points: Howard Bilerman Explains Why Limitations Make the Best Records
Welcome to our brand new column, Talking Points. In each post, we revisit a lengthy lecture or…
4 Important Things to Keep in Mind Before Prepping Your Song for Mixing
Last week, during Soundfly’s Office Hours #4, I sat down with Grammy-nominated audio engineer and…
Our 8 Favorite Songs to Use to Test Headphones and Speakers
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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…
The “Green Apple Trick” for Recording Singers in a Session
The following video features recording engineer Tim Leitner, one of the star instructors of both our Faders Up mixing…
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…
5 Moments in the History of Tape That Shaped Modern Music
Before the synthesizer, electronic experimenters were already at work with another instrument — the tape recorder.…
How and Why You Should Use a Reference Track During Mixing
Arguably one of the most important skills in mixing audio is the ability to listen. Listening…