For more great insights into mixing, try our full-length course with SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti, Mixing Breakthroughs.
What is this game-changing button I speak of? What single switch could take your lifeless recording and elevate your sound to stud status?
The single magic button, often confusingly and incorrectly labeled with Read more...
Mark Marshall’s new course, Producing and Recording Electric Guitar is out now.
Guitarists, producers and engineers alike are often presented with a wide variety of amps to choose from, whether it’s on stage or in the studio, a collection of vintage tube amps or virtual ones.
Sometimes, you’ll encounter an Read more...
A digital audio workstation is more than just a piece of software for hitting record and adding plugins.
While they are incredibly deep feats of programming (even the simple ones) all that coding under the hood must also translate to providing a logical and inspiring conduit for creating art.
Simply Read more...
A plugin playground – that may be where a mixer feels like they’ve landed with the Scheps Omni Channel.
But once all the possibilities of this versatile tool sink in, ITB-heads just want to go to work with it. Designed together with Waves by the GRAMMY-winning mixer Andrew Scheps, the Read more...
This is a guest post by Wessel Oltheten, a producer, engineer and author of the new book Mixing with Impact.
Last week, we looked at how to use some of the most powerful attention mechanisms to help attract a listener’s attention, and then focus it on the most important Read more...
Alison Tavel is on a mission to bring a legendary – but little-heard – synth called The Resynator back to life. It’s an epic saga that’s about way more than just gear, as she seeks to reignite the life force of its inventor Don Tavel – her late father that Read more...
Wes Dooley, and his company, AEA, have a long history of working with ribbon microphones.
When General Electric purchased RCA in 1976 and closed its microphone division, Dooley began servicing those iconic mics. His faithful reproduction of the original RCA 44 (as well as the KU4, a remake of the Read more...
Keeping secrets just doesn’t work for Larrance “Rance” Dopson. As the CEO and co-founder of the LA-based production collective 1500 or Nothin’, it would make perfect sense for him to keep it all close to the vest.
After all, his tricks of the trade are quite valuable, seeing as how Read more...
This is a guest post by Wessel Oltheten, a producer, engineer and author of the new book Mixing with Impact.
I recently took part in a blind comparison between the work done by various human mastering engineers and a popular ”artificial intelligence based” algorithm.
While the algorithm did a Read more...
If the hard drive of your studio computer fails right now, how long would it take you to be up and running again?
If the answer is any longer than 10 minutes, then you are losing money. As we all know, it is not a matter of “if” a hard Read more...
