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Happy New Year. I hope yours is off to a great start. A quick one to start 2024. I was preparing some Doxkyn tracks for mastering recently. I was pretty happy with them but I did my due diligence and pulled up MCompare by Melda Production to check the mixes Read more…
I like simple plugins that are really useful. Elysia Niveau Filter is just one of those plugins. It may only have two knobs and two buttons but it is a powerful sound shaping tool. I was recently working on on a Doxkyn track where I’d recorded a big synth string Read more…
Dynamic EQs are such a luxury in the modern age of music production. They are absolute gold when it comes to correcting resonant frequencies and taming a certain frequency spectrums of a signal. To a drum loop, dynamic EQ can rebalance the kick and snare very well. I have multiband Read more…
As Black Friday 2023 sales kick off for the audio industry I thought this post would be appropriate. Tell me if any of these email headlines sound familiar: Deciphering The Fluff Let’s decipher those subject lines to understand the subtext a bit: Subtext Is Everything If you try to understand Read more…
So it’s probably a little early for end-of-the-year lists just yet but I wanted to shout out these three plugins that are on high rotation on my mastering chain at the moment. Sonible True Balance I’m a big fan of Sonible’s plugins. I use the Smart EQ 3 in most Read more…