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Mixing Templates and If You Should Use Them
From time to time I get asked about my mixing set up and if I use mixing templates or if I can share my mixing templates. Well the truth is I don’t really use mixing templates which may be a surprise. So do I just start everything from scratch? The short answer is yes but […]
Continue readingCreating an Automatic Gain Compensation Plug-in
Isn’t it annoying when you’re adding a plug-in to your mix but there isn’t any gain compensation to account for the increase of overall output gain? It’s hard to tell if the sound is actually getting better or if it’s just getting louder. In an ideal world it would be nice to have that automatic […]
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Mixing Before You Mix: Finding the Right Combination
This is one of those little rant-like posts. This is made for anyone who does their own projects from start to finish. If you mix more than you produce or record you should probably check out my post Fix It in the Mix – You Don’t Need Perfect Recordings. In all honesty you have a […]
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4 Things That Help Me Mix the Low End
Once you feel like you are starting to understand this whole mixing shtick, it almost always feels like there’s one thing that you just can’t figure out. What am I talking about? Mixing the low end, of course. Now the low end could mean a million different things to a million different people but for […]
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