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Last month, we looked at which elements are most likely to go wrong in the mix. This month, Paul White takes a more positive line, and looks at how to record the right instrumental sound to tape in the first place.
I’ve found your Mix Rescue articles really useful, but I was struck by how much detail Mike Senior goes into. I get...
I have a question about normalising. I mix from Cockos Reaper through an M-Audio ProFire 2626 interface into an Allen...
Conventional wisdom states that you can't 'fix it in the mix', but that doesn't mean you cant' try! Paul White discusses a few practical salvage techniques in the first part of this short series.
The SOS team rushes to the rescue of a reader in Somerset suffering from boxy vocals, a weedy mix, and a dodgy tweeter.
I've heard a lot about high-pass filtering tracks to reduce clutter at mixdown, but not as much about low-pass filtering in...
My band tracked some songs at a local studio using their Pro Tools rig and I want to mix the tracks at home in Reaper.
I was wondering where I might be able to find raw tracks that I could use to practise my mixing skills? I've searched on...
In the May 2015 Mix Rescue article, Mike Senior talks about how he bounced out a mix any number of times to compare it to his references. I understand the purpose of referencing, but what I don’t understand is why he bounced out the mix.
Drawing our mini-series to a close, we take you on a detailed tour of the mix and mastering stages of the Damnation’s Hammer album Unseen Planets, Deadly Spheres.
I'm really interested in mixing, but I need decent material to practice on, and I don't think my performance and recording...
In this episode, Mike Senior demonstrates several ways spill can actually improve the sound of your productions.
Mike Senior explores the subject of Haas delays at mixdown, explaining how they work, how to get the best out of them, and how to avoid the most common traps associated with them.
Mike Senior delves into some of the most common troubleshooting tasks when dealing with acoustic guitar recordings at mixdown, and shares his own favourite processing fixes.
Compression can do radically different things to the sound of a snare drum, depending on how it's set up. In this episode, Mike Senior explores three ways in which a compressor can help bring your snare tracks to life.
In the S21, DiGiCo have made their world-class digital mixing technology more accessible than ever before. We spent some time with it, both at DiGiCo HQ and at a real live event.
Just how do you achieve that extra bit of professional polish for your vocal parts? Find out with our in-depth guide...
Softube are out to make DAW mixing more like using a large-format console. Can Console 1 liberate us from mouse and keyboard?
Phil Tan, one of the leading mix engineers specialising in urban music, dissects his mixes for two worldwide hit singles from Rihanna: the apty-named 'SOS' and 'Unfaithful'.
Top producer RedOne has had hits with dozens of artists, but relies on one man to “finish” tracks like Nicki Minaj’s ‘Starships’: engineer Trevor Muzzy.