Have you ever wondered how you can make your songs stand out and sound exciting on Spotify? This is probably the most common dilemma to solve for many artists and producers. You want your songs to stand out next to other music or at least blend in. It’s easy to think that this is all […]
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Now we’re going to discuss a central concept in mastering – Tonal balance. Tonal balance describes the overall relations between the lows, mids and highs in a recording. When we get the tonal balance right, then the master will sound natural and, well, balanced. So, what is a good tonal balance? Is there some objective
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Compression in mastering is quite a misunderstood subject. It’s easy to think that compression is mainly used to control the dynamics and make the loud parts quieter in order to increase the overall level. And sure, that happens at times. Some mixes are too dynamic and need to be controlled with some compression. This happens
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Have you ever listened to a great sounding record and marveled at how the high-end sounds open, sparkly and engaging, while still being smooth and well balanced? There are several methods that you can use when mastering to enhance the high-end. These methods can also be used while mixing, so they are well worth learning
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We’ve received a lot of questions about how we calibrate the Sennheiser HD 600 headphones for mastering. In this article, we’ll walk you through the process step by step and show you the specific settings we use. Whether you’re mastering, mixing, producing or just want to ensure that your headphones are performing at their best,
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Did you know that in Reaper you can turn almost any compressor plugin into a multiband compressor? In this tutorial we’ll discuss two different ways to split the signal into lows, mids and highs and then apply any compressor of your liking to each band. In part one we’ll look at doing this using the
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In these two tutorials we will have a look at Limitless from DMG Audio. This is without a doubt one of the best peak limiters available. It is surely a complex plugin. Therefore, we needed to do two Limitless tutorials to cover everything that is fundamental for mastering. In the first part we walk you
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In this video we talk about how we use multi-band compression when we master records. We are also trying out a new format for our YouTube channel! This conversation was part of a discussion that we had a few days ago. We got inspiration from a question on Facebook about where to put a multi-band
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We have made a dither tutorial video since we get many questions on this subject. Dithering is one of the most fundamental yet most misunderstood concepts in digital audio. We can give you a lot of theory about how it works and why you need it. In essence though, it is actually very easy to
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What actually makes a great sounding mix? With this question in mind, Thomas elaborates on four of the most common features of a great mix. These are things that we have noticed while mastering thousands of mixes over the years. 💚 Sofia & Thomas
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