It cannot be overstated that monitoring is one of the absolute most important stops in your signal chain, whether tracking, listening back, mixing, or mastering.
Your entire monitoring chain is the lens through which every studio decision is made (thousands per day), and Read more...
Justin Colletti is on the Plugin Alliance channel this week to talk with Marc Adamo, founder and product designer at ADPTR Audio about his latest plugin, SCULPT.
This totally new type of dynamics sculpting plugin features upwards compression, downward compression, transient processing and tonal sculpting.
Marc also talks about his Read more...
Across countless mixes that reach his studio for mastering, Justin Colletti has found that practically all of them fit into one of 4 general EQ “Shapes”.
What does that mean? What “Shape” are your mixes? And what can you do with that information? Dive deep in this week’s episode of Read more...
Transformers are used in audio all the time. We use them to step up a mic’s signal or send audio to speakers. At a time before standardization, 600-ohm line transformers helped equipment expecting differing loads work together.
In much of our beloved vintage gear, you will find input and output Read more...
If you could travel back in time and help yourself to one piece of gear from Hitsville U.S.A. what would it be?
Also known as the hallowed ground that is Motown, the historic Detroit studio that was Hitsville didn’t just produce hits. It was also the origin of some of Read more...
In the pro audio and music-making world, monitoring is one of the most important factors.
While many think of monitoring as only your speakers, it’s actually an entire chain of equipment. So much of what you have in your room affects how you perceive sound, and ultimately the choices you Read more...
It’s been long-established that an audio engineer’s main instrument is their studio monitors.
At the front-end of the signal chain is the musician and their instrument. And at the back-end is the engineer and their primary instrument: their monitors.
Of course, great monitoring involves Read more...
Is it possible for a great song—or even a great production—to have a “bad mix“? And what exactly does it mean to have a “bad mix”, anyway?
Justin Colletti explores what we can learn from great songs that have “bad mixes”—and why they can succeed anyway.
Thanks to Soundtoys for Read more...
In 2015, the first version of the Novation Circuit arrived into a crowded groovebox marketplace.
It was a four-part drum machine paired with two six-note synth voices that drew from the Novation synth heritage and a unique approach to sequencing that went beyond the normal sixteen note step sequencer.
With Read more...
Music- and audio-based businesses must often quickly make big changes. A series of net-gain actions has to happen, guided by the best available information.
That mission hit Real Brave Audio in the face when the pandemic began. Like any music business professional, Real Brave founder Dan Powers, Jr. had enough Read more...
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