What's New in Neutron 4?
iZotope Neutron 5 is the complete suite for crafting a professional mix by helping you mix smarter and faster—all while keeping you in the flow. Complete...
Audio Effects
How to Use an Audio Exciter in Mastering
Compared to recording and mixing, mastering leans more heavily on technical strategies to ensure that your music best translates in various commercial...
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...
Signal chain: order of operations
The way you sequence plug-ins matters. How you order equalizers, signal processors like compressors and gates, and effects will change the sound of your...
5 Basic Audio Effects Every Vocalist Should Know
This article will familiarize you with some of the most common and essential audio effects to take your vocal production to the next level. If you are new...
When Should You Add Reverb to a Track?
Choosing what kind of reverb you're going to use on a track can be a daunting task. But what can prove to be even more challenging is deciding when to add...
6 Tips for Using Reverb in Different Genres of Music
As with all processing, genre needs to be considered when adding reverb to the various elements a mix. What’s appropriate in one style of music is...
8 Reverb Tips: How to Manage Reverb-Heavy Mixes
Some styles of music call for more reverb than others. But piling on plug-ins without a gameplan can quickly turn your mix into a cloudy wash of sound. To...
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,...
What Digital Reverb Actually Does
Digital reverb is seductive. When we get started producing, we often have the tendency to become seduced by the sound of reverb. I, for one, certainly went...
5 Essential Tips for Mixing Reverb
Reverb can be tricky to deal with in a mix. The space that it adds can be very helpful, but sloppy reverb sounds can often become smeared over the mix,...
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...
