Professional Mixing & Mastering Secrets

[...] topic. Subtractive EQ simply means that you are reducing the gain of one or more of the filters on an EQ. Additive [...]

[...] EQ simply means that you are reducing the gain of one or more of the filters on an EQ. Additive EQ simply means that you are boosting the gain of one or more of the filters on an EQ. Subtractive [...]

[...] headroom to avoid clipping before sending it off to mastering, Mastering Engineers are often clipping our music after you’ve worked so hard to avoid it. It can be certain [...]

[...] bassy, it was easy for the mastering engineer to reduce some of that low-end. Soon, ballsy Mastering Engineers could reach for those bass and treble controls and tweak them to improve dull mixes, [...]

[...] through sub-par D/A converters, or during MP3/AAC conversion. Argument: It’s Not True Digital Clipping..? This goes deeper. Mastering Engineers have made yet another argument in favor of clipping [...]

[...] Trick That’s Used By The Pros on Snare! Continue To The Next Part > Skip To Section: Introduction • Tuning • Hit Right • Mic Placement Mic Choice • Saturation  [...]

[...] ! Picking The Best Snare Drum Microphone! Continue To The Next Part > Skip To Section: Introduction • Tuning • Hit Right • Mic Placement Mic Choice • Saturation  • [...]

[...] Mic Placement Technique For A Huge Snare! Continue To The Next Part > Skip To Section: Introduction • Tuning • Hit Right • Mic Placement Mic Choice •  [...]

[...] ). How To Use Reverb On The Snare Drum! Continue To The Next Part > Skip To Section: Introduction • Tuning • Hit Right • Mic Placement Mic Choice • Saturation   [...]

[...] the ADAT—including the DAT for that matter—plus VST and TDM plugins were introducing digital EQ, compression, and effects. Those early 90′s digital EQ and compression plugins were [...]

[...] judgement on that mix based on how it sounds, and nothing else. They can’t see your EQ technique, so what sounds good is what’s right—period. Now that we’ve looked at the benefits [...]

[...] a trend beginning here), the justification amongst many Mastering Engineers is that this clipping technique is only attainable with expensive outboard gear. There are two possibilities here. [...]

Disclaimer: In revealing this secret, I’m refraining from judgment of the Award Winning Mastering Engineers that service using this technique. The [...]

[...] and make sure that the master disc was the best quality possible for mass reproduction. Early Mastering EQ & Compression In the early days, the goal of the mastering engineer was to create a clean [...]