Nick Messitte

Nick Messitte

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Nick Messitte is an award-winning engineer, composer, sound designer, and educator. His credits span a variety of genres and disciplines, from indie rock to post-production sound design. He’s mixed and mastered records for Peach Face, Adjective Animal, Soul Cannon, Super City, Micah E. Wood, Not Charles, Pete Mancini, Leland Sundries, and others. A veteran engineer in the podcast space, Nick has worked on shows and segments for NPR, WHYY, WBURR, OZY Media, ABC, Voyage Media, Criminal Content, and more. If you’d like to connect with Nick about a project or have any questions about the craft of engineering, you can reach him here.

8 Creative Reverb Effects for Sound Design

8 Creative Reverb Effects for Sound Design

Reverb effects are a great tool to help elevate your production. The purpose of reverb is to create a sense of ambiance, foster a feeling of depth, or take...

6 Times to Use Multiple Reverbs in a Mix

6 Times to Use Multiple Reverbs in a Mix

In a session, it’s common parlance that you shouldn’t load up all your tracks with reverb, because doing so can turn your mix into a muddy,...

9 Tips for Using Reverb with Drums

9 Tips for Using Reverb with Drums

Your drums sound narrow, dry, and small. You need them to sound bigger, so you send them to a concert-hall reverb. That’ll do the trick, right? Probably...

8 Pesky Problems RX 7 Standard Will Fix in Your Mix

8 Pesky Problems RX 7 Standard Will Fix in Your Mix

You’re a smart cookie: you probably know the standard uses for RX 7. If you can hear the room surrounding a vocal, you know to use Voice De-noise to tamp it...

6 Ways to Use Neutron 3 for Post Production

6 Ways to Use Neutron 3 for Post Production

This article references a previous version of Neutron. Learn about  Neutron 5  and its powerful features including Assistant View, Target Library, Unmask,...

How to Fix 8 Common Podcast Audio Issues

How to Fix 8 Common Podcast Audio Issues

Podcasts have their own unique audio challenges. Here are tips on how to solve common podcast mix problems. These tips for mixing podcasts have come in handy...

9 Tips to Preserve Dynamics without Sacrificing Loudness

9 Tips to Preserve Dynamics without Sacrificing Loudness

Unless you’re going for a hi-fi experience, everyone wants a track that sounds, feels, and heck, just is loud. Don’t deny it just because...

8 Killer Reference Mixes for Hip-Hop

8 Killer Reference Mixes for Hip-Hop

Download Hip-Hop Curves   Demo Tonal Balance Control in Ozone 9 Download the Tonal Balance Control curves of the songs mentioned here to reference for your...

iZotope RX and Sound Design: 13 Tips with Matt McCorkle

iZotope RX and Sound Design: 13 Tips with Matt McCorkle

I drove to one of those weird Brooklyn neighborhoods that might just be Queens, and I’m sitting in Matt McCorkle’s studio, my body...

6 Tips for Using Ozone's Utilities in Mixing and Mastering

6 Tips for Using Ozone's Utilities in Mixing and Mastering

Many people love Ozone for its assistive audio technology, its compressors, its intelligent limiting, and other tonal-shaping aspects....

6 Ways to Pair Nectar with Neutron

6 Ways to Pair Nectar with Neutron

If you have both Neutron 3 and Nectar 3, it may be hard to know when to use which: you have two-channel strips at your disposal, one geared towards the...

Compression: When and How to Use It in Nectar, Neutron, and Ozone

Compression: When and How to Use It in Nectar, Neutron, and Ozone

This article demonstrates compression concepts using older versions of Neutron, Nectar, and Ozone. To access the latest features, upgrade to Music...