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Mix Engineer David Kim in the studio

How to Become a Mixing Engineer: Hit-Boy's David Kim Gives Career Advice

To quote Kendrick Lamar: sit down—be humble. Whether you’re a mix engineer, producer, musician, or anyone else in the music industry, chance...

Recording Vocals: Tips from GRAMMY-winning Engineer Brian Warwick

Recording Vocals: Tips from GRAMMY-winning Engineer Brian Warwick

Brian Warwick is a New England based recording and mix engineer who has worked on some of the most popular albums, films, TV shows, and video games of the...

Runtime DSP, It’s Tricky: Video Game and VR Audio with Brian Schmidt

Runtime DSP, It’s Tricky: Video Game and VR Audio with Brian Schmidt

With over thirty years of video game audio experience, including ten of them leading the audio technology department for Xbox at Microsoft, Brian Schmidt...

JAY-Z, Modern Mixing, and iZotope: An Interview with Jimmy Douglass

JAY-Z, Modern Mixing, and iZotope: An Interview with Jimmy Douglass

This article references previous versions of Ozone. Learn about the latest Ozone and its powerful new features like Master Rebalance, Low End Focus, and...

5 Podcasters Share How to Overcome their Biggest Audio Challenges

5 Podcasters Share How to Overcome their Biggest Audio Challenges

Podcasting popularity continues to rise and shows no signs of slowing down. According to the 2017 Infinite Dial Study by Edison Research and Triton Digital, 67...

Neon Indian Talks Using Trash 2, and Iris 2 and Music Production

Neon Indian Talks Using Trash 2, and Iris 2 and Music Production

From Neon Indian’s 2009 chillwave breakout song “Should Have Taken Acid with You” to the crisp, tropical funk of 2015’s “Annie,” Neon Indian’s synth-laden...

Despacito engineer, Luis Saldarriaga (Salda) in the studio.

Engineering Billboard No. 1 Song “Despacito”—an Interview with Engineer Luis "Salda" Saldarriaga

Luis Saldarriaga (Salda) shares his experience working on Luis Fonsi's "Despacito," including the recording setup and using Ozone 7 Advanced.

Behind the Sounds of Black Mirror: an Interview with Stefan Henrix

Behind the Sounds of Black Mirror: an Interview with Stefan Henrix

Black Mirror is a TV show that wants to make you uncomfortable. It wants you to coax you with the promise of tech-driven utopias, plant false assumptions...

Interview: Owl City on Songwriting, Film Scoring, and Using RX

Interview: Owl City on Songwriting, Film Scoring, and Using RX

You may know Adam Young as the guy behind Owl City, his one-man electronic music project whose 2009 song "Fireflies” has since gone 7x...