How 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.
read moreHow To Mix vocals With Music Better in 1 Minute
How to mix vocals and music? This is probably one of the most frequently asked questions after "how to mix music in general." Apply this trick at the very beginning of your work with a project, and mixing vocals on an instrumental will be a lot easier!
read moreHow to Reference Mixes in Ableton Live - Complete Guide
In this step by step guide you will learn, how to use Live’s stock tools and freeware plugins to check your mixing work for issues and how to use commercially released songs as references crafting your own songs.
read moreMixing Rap Vocal to a Beat Detailed
In this video covered all stages of mixing rap vocals to a premixed and mastered beat. Starting from preparation beat to mixing (with pitfalls and methods of work with heavily maximized beats written up) and finishing with rap vocals space treatment specific aspects.
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