No. You read it right. The headline is correct. It’s quite common for many of us home studio mixers to think the answer behind a super-wide mix resides behind using lots of stereo tracks, while in fact that’s not true. Sure, stereo instruments are a great thing, but over-abusing them it’s not a good idea. Paradoxically, …
If you’ve been mixing or recording for a while, then you might have heard people talking about checking mixes on the car stereo. It is actually a very good habit you should get… But why? Why that car stereo perspective is so important? And why shouldn’t you skip that test before setting a mix done? …
You know that guy with the moving needle found on every piece of analog equipment, right? Well, that’s a VU meter. It’s one of the first devices introduced back in the analog days to measure and display the intensity of signal levels in audio equipment, making it possible for recording engineers to hit the recording …
Room acoustics are a curse for every single engineer. Your space may dramatically influence what’s coming out of your speakers, no matter how much you paid them. Having a super set of speaker won’t help that much if your room sounds bad, and if you can’t accurately hear what’s going on, you’ll have some hard times making …
I keep reading around of people asking which is the best plugin, which is the best effects chain or which plugin they should buy to make their mix super loud and competitive…and the list goes on. I have to confess that I fell in this trap as well some years ago… It’s an infinite loop: …
While starting a new mix, sometimes you discover your raw tracks are sounding dull and muddy. With these terms, I am basically referring to all that stuff that builds up in the lows and low mids regions when many tracks are playing together, that will cause your mix to sound somehow muffled or masked out. Choose …