Mixing
As a musician you will probably want to keep your hearing in tip top condition, but sometimes all that clubbing, going to concerts and general listening to loud music can take it's toll on your ears and as a musician your ears have probably taken some damage.
Today I found a nice little application in the iTunes app store which allows you to test...
Before I began writing this post I did a quick search on Google for Parallel Gating, to see what other sort of articles were already out there for it and came up with next to nothing, I found this a little strange as I have found it a great little technique to know which was taught to me on a studio course I went on a long time ago and yet seems...
The compressor can be one of the more difficult effects to get your head round using effectively, today I am going to show how to use it to make your beats sound noticeably louder using parallel compression, which is great for harder sounding genres of music. Firstly it is probably best to show you what the original beat sounded like before any...
A good track usually has a nice clear sound down in the bass frequencies which doesn't sound muffled. Many mixes from beginner producers struggle to get a great sounding mix and complain of a muffled sounding mix in the lower frequencies. Usually the cause is that too many instruments are competing for the space within the bass.
A commonly used...
