Mixing / Production

How do I make my ears more sensitive to inconsistencies in the vocal frequency spectrum?

At what point in the mixdown process do you think it’s best to engage the master‑bus compressor?

We condense nearly 50 years’ worth of producing and engineering experience into 36 indispensable tips!

Xylo Aria talks about her personal journey as a music artist and how it gave her the incentive to create Music Production for Women.

Creating an environment where artists can flourish means building trust, understanding people and valuing everyone’s input.

When using a mono-making plug-in, is there a range of transition that sees stereo signals gradually taper into mono?

Ricky Damian is a Grammy Award-winning Engineer/Producer who’s worked with artists such as Mark Ronson, Lady Gaga, Sam Smith, Adele, Dua Lipa, Yebba, Jorja Smith and Sampha.

Will Purton is a London-based recording engineer, mixer and producer nominated in the Rising Star category for the 2023 Music Producers Guild Awards.

Daniel Moyler is a freelance mix engineer who was awarded Engineer Of The Year at the MPG 2020 Awards and won a 2021 Grammy for his engineering work on Dua Lipa's album Future Nostalgia.

Sam Inglis talks to Francine Perry, artist, producer and mix engineer, about her career so far and being nominated in the Rising Star category for her work with Beth Orton, Erasure and HAAi while based at Mute Studio.

Cecil (Adam) Bartlett is a London-based producer who talks to Sam Inglis about his career so far and being nominated in this year's Breakthrough Producer Of The Year category for his work on Here Is Everything by The Big Moon.

Manon Grandjean is a freelance mix engineer who has previously won three Music Producers Guild Awards. This year she's been nominated again for Mix Engineer Of The Year 2023, this time for her work with artists Flo, Fyfe & Iskra Strings and Milk & Bone.

Mikko Gordon is a Grammy nominated mixing engineer and record producer based in London. This year he's nominated by the Music Producers Guild for Recording Engineer Of The Year and Album Of The Year along with Nigel Godrich for The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention.

Catherine Anne Davies, also known as The Anchoress, is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Sam Inglis talks to her about being nominated for Self Producing Artist in the Music Producers Guild Awards 2023.

As a mix engineer, it’s your job to give clients what they want — but what they say and what they mean aren’t always quite the same...

Just how do professional engineers tackle the earliest stages of their mixes, and can the rest of us learn anything from their approach?

We’re often advised to check mixes on a car stereo. But how useful is the fabled ‘car test’ in reality?

Learn to stop worrying and love your mixes with our 10‑point checklist!

I’ve played with ‘out of phase’ parallel compression (where the compressed signal path is polarity inverted)  — but, honestly, I didn’t really understand what I was doing...

Nuno Fonseca of Sound Particles talks about their rapid rise in the film and audio industry and how they are using their sound particle plug-in technology to bring exciting new options to sound design and audio recording.

Do the automation features in DAW software make old‑school console automation redundant? We canvass opinions from big‑name mix engineers.