5 Mix Tips You Need to Improve Dynamic Range
To bring more emotion to a performance, musicians will play certain sections softly and others with more force. The difference between these two points,...
Audio mixing
Audio mixing is the art of blending, editing, and balancing multiple sources of sound to achieve sonic clarity and cohesion. Check out our resources below to learn the tools and techniques used in creating professional sounding mixes.
7 Tips for Mixing Guitars
Mixing guitars can feel hard sometimes. You’ll hear many good guitar recordings on albums, and yet when you get guitar tracks in for mixing, you can...
Headroom: How to Set Your Levels in Mixing and Mastering
The concept of headroom is one of those foundational elements of any audio engineering discipline that gets glossed over all too often. If the term...
Unmasking your Mix with Music Production Suite 4.1
This article references a previous version of Music Production Suite and Neutron. Learn about the new plug-ins included in Music Production Suite 5...
Mixing Vocals: 10 Hidden Features in Nectar Pro
Nectar Pro is a vocal and dialogue mixing powerhouse. There are nine processing modules, an assistant that unmasks and gives you a custom preset for...
10 Tips for Mixing Pop Music
“Pop” is an all-encompassing term for music that generally appeals to a wide listener base. Under the pop umbrella, there are countless sub-genres from...
Removing Audio Hum with iZotope RX
Are you editing audio that has an audible, funny humming noise? What is it, and how can you get rid of hum without affecting the quality of the audio you...
13 Tips for Producing and Mixing EDM
EDM veteran Andrew Eisele shares his top tips for how to produce EDM; including common EDM production techniques, how to mix EDM with plug-ins, and some ways to improve your production workflow.
Mixing Plug-ins 101: How to Start Mixing
Mixing is often thought of as a long and tedious process—involving countless hours tweaking, refining, and sliding faders until your ears bleed. But, it...
Vocal mixing 101: free vocal doubler plugin and tips for mixing vocals
Nobody said mixing vocals would be easy, but with powerful tools and some knowledge of tips and tricks to back you up, you’ll have everything you need...
How to Create Better Transitions in Your Mix
Have you ever thought, “I have these killer verses, a great chorus, and catchy bridge; but how do I get better transitions between the sections in...
Multiband Compression Basics
There are no two ways about it: without some good guidance, multiband compression is tricky! As a young, intrepid engineer, I remember asking one of the...
