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 tips for using reverbs and delays on guitars

8 tips for using reverbs and delays on guitars

Barring distortion, few audio effects are as essential to mixing guitars as the time-based ones: reverb and delay. From classic spring tanks to the arena...

8 common compression mistakes music producers make

8 common compression mistakes music producers make

If you're a mixing engineer or music producer, then you've probably been bitten by the compression bug. Slamming that audio is a surefire way to give...

Introducing Cascadia, your intelligent delay plugin

Introducing Cascadia, your intelligent delay plugin

Meet Cascadia, an intelligent delay plugin from iZotope and the latest addition to iZotope’s Catalyst Series of processors. Cascadia offers clean delays...

What is the Shepard Tone?

What is the Shepard Tone?

Looking for a way to add tension to your EDM tracks? Are you a sound designer looking for ways to evoke a feeling of perpetual motion in your effects? If so,...

4 ways to use Neutron's Phase module in mixing

4 ways to use Neutron's Phase module in mixing

Phase is a tricky concept to understand. It’s also pivotal to creating good mixes. That’s why Neutron 5 comes with a brand new Phase module....

How to use Neutron’s Density module in your mix

How to use Neutron’s Density module in your mix

Meet the Density module, a new tool in Neutron 5 for adding weight to sounds without changing their inherent texture or groove. Density is a new take on...

Clipping in mixing explained, and how to use it

Clipping in mixing explained, and how to use it

Clipping often gets a bad rap, but when used with precision, clipping is a powerful tool in the mixing process. Tasteful clipping can help you preserve...

What's new in Neutron 5?

What's new in Neutron 5?

Neutron 5 has arrived! With three new modules, upgrades to the GUI, and much more, Neutron 5 is a modern-day, one-stop shop for all your audio mixing needs....

Get started mixing with Neutron Elements

Get started mixing with Neutron Elements

Whether you’re just starting to create your own music at home or you’re a professional looking for some new mixing tools, Neutron Elements has...

What is phase in audio? 5 ways to address phase issues

What is phase in audio? 5 ways to address phase issues

Like headroom, the concept of phase is one of those core, foundational concepts in audio engineering that is often misunderstood. If the Wikipedia...

Psychoacoustics: how perception influences music production

Psychoacoustics: how perception influences music production

Hang around with audio engineers long enough and someone will bring up the concept of psychoacoustics. If you’re a beginner, you might not know what the...

Introducing iZotope Aurora reverb plugin

Introducing iZotope Aurora reverb plugin

Into a market saturated with reverbs, iZotope is excited to release “Aurora,” a smart reverb for our modern age. Why this plug-in, and why now?  The...