Using Compression to Help Vocals Sit in a Mix
Compression is one of the most powerful yet often misunderstood tools in music production. When I was first learning audio, I remember knowing I had to use a...
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What is tonal balance in mixing and mastering?
“Tonal balance” is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot by mixing and mastering engineers as if they’re talking about something as...
Audio Mixing: 10 Hidden Features in Neutron
Neutron is to mixing what Ozone is to mastering: an intelligent, modular channel strip plug-in that helps you with any mixing task. Whether...
Mix Bus 101: Why, When, and How to Group Tracks into a Bus
Are you looking for better sonic control and improved organization within your mixes, all while being more CPU friendly? You've come to the right...
8 Tips for Mixing Rap and Hip-Hop
Mixing rap and hip-hop can be both liberating and challenging. On one hand, you have the opportunity to try more creative mix techniques like vocal throws...
How to EQ a Pop Vocal
Pop vocals tend to have the same sort of sound when they hit our ears. People use words like bright, shiny, crisp, and airy to describe them, and you can...
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...
Making Beats from Sampled Sounds with TOKiMONSTA
Interested in making your own clean, polished samples to use in your beats? In this video, acclaimed producer/DJ TOKiMONSTA shares how she uses iZotope RX...
How to Mix Acoustic Guitar
Sonically, the acoustic guitar is one of the more complex sounds you can have in a production. Whether you are starting with a great acoustic guitar...
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,...
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...
Audio Repair: 10 Hidden Features in iZotope RX
Whether you're working on a podcast or music production, RX is there to help you fix the unfixable and solve the unsolvable. We want to help...
