How to mix backing vocals wide
When you compare your tracks with professionals’ mixes, you’ll clearly notice that their backing vocals are anyway much wider. So, how exactly professionals get such results and what is worth adopting from them in order to mix backing vocals wide indeed?
read moreAdding Dynamics to a Mix in 1 Step
This trick is fit for any genres, even for EDM music where excessively compressed sound became the norm. What’s more, the work of the transient shaper is unnoticeable until you turn it off. Try it yourself! I wish all of you dynamic mixes!
read moreHow to Equalize Distorted Electric Guitar sound
If the guitar tone at the output of the amplifier completely suits you, consequently, you are lucky and the equalization procedure will be incredibly simple: Cut low frequency mumbling in the range of 60–120 Hz. These frequencies are of no use...
read moreHow To Add Punchiness to a Kick Drum
How to add more punch to a kick drum and along with that to give specific character/color to its attack? The following interesting technique will help with that. Make two copies of a drum track and send them to the overall AUX bus...
read moreHow to Master Music Louder and with More Color
And now another trick that I often use during mixing and mastering! Try it yourself; this sequence gives absolutely different result as contrasted with standard practice when the maximizer is the very last link in a mastering chain.
read moreHow To Mix Epic Orchestral Music
While working with orchestral music, you should set your mind on abundance of automation at once since constant evolution of a sound picture and flowing of instruments from foreground to background and back are the basis of the genre.
read moreHow to Mix Rap/Hip-Hop Vocals Professionally: Compression, EQ and De-essing
I always start with a maximum attack and the shortest release time on my favorite CLA-76 and Lindell 7X-500; these settings have never failed me. Then I squash vocals and mix this signal to unprocessed one until I feel that the voice is stably sitting in the mix.
read moreHow to Mix Rap and Hip-Hop Vocals Professionally: Preparation
Now figure out how to add warmth and color to vocals. It can be tape saturation, equalization and compression. At this stage, I personally quite often use compression with plugin-emulators of vintage devices. In fact, two-in-one processing!
read moreHow to mix Electronic Dance Music EDM Loud and Clean
This is a fashion issue in sound whether producers should push the whole loudness potential out of music or keep the natural dynamics. But as incredible loudness remains “must have” for EDM genre, let’s sort out such a tricky question how to mix EDM loud but still clean.
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