Automation: Enhancing, Creating Motion, Adding Flavor
This post focuses on making your tracks sound more dynamic with automation. Automation has been with us for a long time. Before there were computers, it wasn’t too uncommon to see engineers, producers,...
View ArticleSysEx and MIDI Automation: Don’t Forget That Preset
The focus of this post is on capturing SysEx information from external MIDI devices in order to have a record of your presets right in your session or automate the settings throughout the track. It...
View ArticleStereo Image Placement = Much Better Mixing
This post focuses on the placement of sounds in the stereo image during the mix process. Proper use of stereo imaging in a mix is probably almost as important (or even more important in sparse mixes)...
View ArticleConvolution: Untangling the Qualities of Sound
This post focuses on convolution as it applies to audio – the capturing and reapplication of the qualities of sound. A few years ago some new-fangled audio processing engines started to leak out of the...
View ArticleAdding Real Ambience After-the-Fact
This post focuses on capturing ambience by playing back and re-recording sounds in acoustic spaces. The idea of piping sounds into a space and retracking it isn’t new by any stretch of the imagination....
View ArticlePredelay: Improve Clarity of ‘Verb
This post focuses on the use of predelay to allow reverb to be added to a sound without muddying it up too much. A lot of producers are really reverb shy these days. It’s true that reverb can really...
View ArticleHow to Create Depth in a Mix
This post focuses on the topic of creating a sense of depth in mixes. It’s not too hard to make things sound big. It’s not too hard to make things sound wide. But it is very hard to do both while...
View ArticleMono Sources in a Stereo World – Michael Franti @ RNC
Recently I was hired to finesse a rather rough live recording of Michael Franti‘s performance at the protest concert outside the Republican National Convention in 2008. The recording was done with a...
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