Guest article from Big Tone Mastering – Online Audio Mastering Mastering… it’s an area that has come under fire over the last few years, with computers becoming much more clever as algorithms continue to advance and in this sense, advanced…
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Less is More – Bigger sounds through simplification
Want bigger & fuller sounding songs? Less is More! The biggest problem I encounter with inexperienced artists, producers, and engineers these days is that there is too much of everything. Too many parts in the song arrangements. Too many tracks…
Tagged with: Compression, Home Recording, Mastering, Mixing, Mixing Techniques, Music Production, Recording, Songwriting, Technique
Posted in Mixing, Music Production, Recording, Songwriting
Posted in Mixing, Music Production, Recording, Songwriting
Maximize Your Recording Budget
Revised & Updated! This is an old article I wrote in the early 90s. Quite a bit has changed since then, but most of the advice here still applies. With the reworking of my site in 2012, I have gone…
Tagged with: Budget, Do It Yourself, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Music Business, Music Production, Producer, Recording, Studios
Posted in Mastering, Mixing, Music Business, Music Production, Recording
Posted in Mastering, Mixing, Music Business, Music Production, Recording
Mastering question…sort of
Question: how do professionally recorded and/or mastered audio recordings get that “sheen” or that “glass-like quality” ? Is that something done in the mastering stage, or is it something done during the mixdown stage? Is it something done with a…
Multiband Harmonic Exciter
Is there any use for a multiband harmonic exciter? A harmonic exciter, I thought and correct me if I’m wrong, adds a high frequency “touch” to a sound. Couldn’t an EQ do the same thing? What would be the advantage…
Tagged with: Distortion, EQ, Equalization, Exciter, Harmonics, Mastering, Mixing, Mixing Techniques, Technique
Posted in Ask MusicTECH!
Posted in Ask MusicTECH!
DC Offset question
In a previous post to me you wrote: If I use a high-pass filter it will be set to very low frequencies (10 or 20Hz at most) just to remove any possible DC offset and really low sub rumble that…
Tagged with: DC Offset, Digital Audio, Dither, Mastering, Mixing, Recording
Posted in Ask MusicTECH!
Posted in Ask MusicTECH!
Mastering Levels Question
I was recently watching the Steinberg Internal Mixing DVD and, as a result, I have a question. One of they points they make on the DVD is that, when one is sending pop and rock music off for mastering, the…
Effects Order
I have a question regarding order of effects on the stereo output channel. I have Ozone 3 which is a “mastering” plug in. It contains a graphic EQ, some compressors, reverb, etc. I also have a separate compressor which I…
16 and 32 bit dithering
Oh Wise One: If I’m taking a track which was recorded in 16 bits and making it into an audio file to place on a mastering track, do I save it in the audio file as 16 or 32 bits? …
Mastering Madness!!!
Greetings Master of All-Things-Audio: I really need your help. About a year ago I had asked you which audio production software you liked, why, etc. I chose Cubase SX3 and I really enjoy it -it’s relatively steep on the learning…
