5 Favourite Compressor Plugins 2018 We’re approaching the end of the year, and that means…list time! And for this article I’ll be taking a look at what is currently my 5 favourite compressor plugins. Now, before anyone gets uppity because I’m not ever talking about their favourite Avid or UAD plugins/software, all I will […]
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How to actually get better mixes? In recent years quite a few mixing blogs and YouTube channels have developed this really annoying habit of telling newbies what they’re doing wrong and then not really adding much (if any) useful content to actually help people out – well, apart from trying to sell you their new
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Ah yes, the big elephant in the room. All over the fabulous interwebs and various youtube channels you can see all sorts of home studio myths, and in some cases bad advice being bandied about – very often on websites and channels geared towards beginners. And while the people who post that stuff may mean
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In this post I’ll be focusing on the headphone version of Sonarworks Reference, and why it has been a real lifesaver in the studio for me. Most of us who are doing recording and mixing are not working in big fancy studios. The reality is that a lot of us are working in less than
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You and your band have written some killer songs and you’re about to start recording your stuff, and you are being tasked with doing the recording and most likely the mixing. Below are some essential tips for recording your own band. These are some of the things I’ve picked up after almost 30 years of
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There are many ways to skin a….bass. Or recording bass guitar, for that matter… For the many of us who record at home, the smartest and easiest way is recording direct. And it can sound great without too much work. What I tend to do is record a good clean sound that I can manipulate
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Sometimes when mixing a song, some tracks need much more help than you can get just from EQ, compression and reverb. In this post I go through some that I find incredibly useful, and frequently use. Sonarworks Reference Let’s face it, a lot of us have to mix in acoustically untreated rooms. Many also have
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10 STEPS TO A BETTER MIX You got all the tracks you need to start mixing, and they’re recorded quite well. Should be a breeze, right? Well, for most of us who are not seasoned professionals, this is not always the case. Below I’m going to share a few tips that massively increased the quality
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A lot of us guitar players love our Gibsons (or other guitars with the 3+3 tuner configuration) . The playability, the sounds – fabulous. However, they can be a right pain to keep in tune on a gig or in the studio. The solution for me as well as many others has been the Dietrich
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