Mixing / Production

We conclude our in-depth guide to the world of library music with an essential cut-out-and-keep explanation of the key words and phrases you’ll hear.

When you’re recording a Morrissey album, you need to be ready for anything...

I have a slight level mismatch that I don’t know how best to resolve. I want to patch the Dangerous Music Compressor through the inserts on two of an Allen & Heath GL2400 mixer’s input channels. The problem is that the send signal from the mixer is a tad weak for hitting the compressor where it works best...

We discuss another handful of hit records, to help you brush up on your listening skills.

Keeping up with the Nashville music world means working fast — and few mix engineers work as fast as Billy Decker!

Go-to producer for Taylor Swift, Lorde and St. Vincent, Jack Antonoff has the rare ability to translate wild experimentation into record sales.

Composers need publishers. But are they there to help us, or help themselves?

Why is it that I hear about so many producers spending hours riding lead vocal levels. Surely that’s what a compressor’s supposed to do?

We examine the production of some commercial releases to help you brush up on your listening skills. This time: Joey + Rory and our Classic Mix is Fats Domino's ‘Blueberry Hill’ (1956).

Karl Marx predicted that history would repeat itself as farce — but he never saw a role for expert pop parody!

Not only is Atlanta’s rap scene producing stars like Lil Uzi Vert, but it’s also providing opportunities for a new wave of engineering talent.

Like any way to make a living, library music has its pitfalls. We help you look out for some of the biggest!

I need to do some recording of spoken word, using a cheap and cheerful lavalier mic, but it’s noisy — there’s a steady ‘hiss’. Is there some plug-in that can reduce said noise, perhaps by taking a sample of it and then adding it out of phase?

By turning your hotel room into a project studio, you can deliver broadcast-quality VO tracks when you travel.

This month tracks from Sam Smith • Taylor Swift • Imagine Dragons • Classic Mix: Spice Girls ‘Wannabe' (1996).

German producer Zedd has become a star by bringing musicality to electronic dance music.

The success of Kesha’s ‘Praying’ justified the lengths that Jon Castelli went to to get the perfect mix — eventually!

There’s a lot of money to be made writing music for movie trailers — so you have to be good. Have you got what it takes?

Will non-AI mixing become the new vintage?