Good on Everything: Using Vinyl on Multiple Genres
I’ll never forget Vinyl —my first iZotope plug-in, when I was but a wee engineer. It was perfect for sound design, because the vinyl sound...
8 Common Mistakes in Mid/Side Mixing
Once upon a time, people spoke of Mid/Side mixing in hushed tones—this was a process left largely to mastering engineers, who had specialized gear...
3 Ways to Warp Vocals with VocalSynth 2
If you’re anything like me, you find VocalSynth 2 deceptively intimidating: the GUI looks perfectly easy to grasp, but once you get going, you find...
3 Tips to Learn Neoverb in 10 Minutes
Recently, iZotope joined forces with Exponential Audio, and the partnership has produced industry-first reverb innovations. Dialogue Match made use of...
5 Tips for Using Reverb in Pop
Recently, iZotope released a reverb plug-in called Neoverb. To celebrate, we’re offering some tutorials to help you use reverb in a variety of...
6 Ways to Use Reverb in Post Production Sound Design
Post-production sound design is a magical, yet invisible process: when it’s done right, no one really notices you’ve done anything at all. But anyone who...
Reinventing Restoration with RX 8: Wow, Flutter, Guitar De-noise, and Spectral Recovery
RX is here, and with it of course come several new modules. Spectral Recovery, Guitar De-noise, and Wow & Flutter are all new tools. In this...
3 Tips for Fixing VoIP Audio in the Mix
VoIP—for years, the bane of engineers who work on podcasts and in broadcasting. Voice over Internet Protocol, or “VoIP” for short, is the...
5 Tips to Add Movement to Your Mix with Stutter Edit 2
Rejoice ye fans of glitchy goodness: iZotope released an update to Stutter Edit, the comprehensive sound-design powerhouse! But with its namesake...
8 Tips for Designing Synth Patches with Stutter Edit 2
Stutter Edit 2 excels both in mixing and in sound design. In this article, we’re going to focus more on the latter—specifically when it...
Inside the Decibel and Why It Matters
So much of what we do is quantified in decibels—e.g. “Bring up that vocal a dB or so.” If we notch out a frequency, we talk about that...
10 Tips for Mixing Short Films
Mixing a short film can be daunting for the novice engineer. Consider this article your step-by-step guide, and refer to it whenever you need to figure out...
