What Is Mix Depth? How to Create Front-Back Space
Depth: the final frontier. Somewhere after you figure out how to get a mix as wide as you like, you start to worry about how your music to sound lifelike...
9 Tips for Mixing Jazz
I love mixing jazz. No genre is more fun in its constraints. Mixing jazz is a perfect balance of honoring the recording you’re given and...
What is Audio Ducking and How to Do It in Music Production
Audio ducking is a highly useful mixing technique you can use to improve the clarity of elements in a mix. It’s arguably one of the best skills to...
6 Tips for Mixing Good Ol’ Fashioned Rock and Roll
Greetings! If you’re here, you’re interested in mixing some rock music. If that’s the case, we salute you—with tips aimed at mixing good...
7 Home Recording Studio Hacks for the Bedroom Producer
You’re an aspiring producer—making beats, recording sounds, trying to make it all fit together. And, you’re mostly working out of your bedroom...
9 tips to produce an EDM drop that hits harder
Whether you’re into slap house, hybrid trap, or experimental leftfield bass, an EDM drop plays a crucial role in keeping the energy up during a night...
8 Tips for Taming Harsh Treble in the Mix
Harsh high end can be annoying to music producers and mix engineers. With that first application of the EQ, we hope against all hope that a simple low pass...
How to mix piano
The piano is a symphony orchestra in one single instrument—so no wonder pianos can be confounding to mix! If you’ve ever found yourself stuck on how to...
How to Fix Audio Clipping
Audio clipping is every audio engineer's worst nightmare. In the past, the only way to fix audio clipping was to re-record the audio that had clipped in...
8 Tips for Mixing Rap and Hip-Hop
Mixing rap and hip-hop can be both liberating and challenging. On one hand, you have the opportunity to try more creative mix techniques like vocal throws...
How to EQ a Pop Vocal
Pop vocals tend to have the same sort of sound when they hit our ears. People use words like bright, shiny, crisp, and airy to describe them, and you can...
Understanding Chorus, Flangers, and Phasers in Audio Production
Most producers are familiar with the most common audio processors: EQs, compressors, reverb, and delay. These can be (and often are) used in every...
