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Ryan West Shows How To Add ‘Transformer Color’ in a Mix
Last month Nathan Hamiel demonstrated how to properly produce rock vocal compression using the Dangerous COMPRESSOR. This month we are joined by platinum selling engineer Ryan West at Flux Studios...
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Why Use an Analog Summing Mixer? Featuring Ryan West
Ryan West is this months Dangerous Music guru, shedding light on his methods behind hybrid mixing. Out of Flux Recording Studios in NYC, Ryan utilizes the Dangerous Music 2-BUS+ to demonstrate how...
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3 Techniques: Soundtoys Decapitator – with Mixer Qmillion
If you aim to keep your head on straight – while tilting your ears over just so – then Decapitator is a powerful plugin. The analog saturation modeler from Soundtoys is noted by mixers early and often...
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Making the Mix Room: Stonebridge Studios – Leesburg, VA
If you seek affirmation that audio engineering really is science, read on. You’ll find it in the words and deeds of Stuart Martin, proprietor of Stonebridge Studios. Set inside on 1860’s barn in...
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New Gear Review: McDSP 6034 Ultimate Multi-band Compressor
Summing it Up Right out of the gate, the concept of the 6034 is incredibly appealing. It’s not just about the significant amount of control it offers, it’s also about capturing the right vibe and just...
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Audio Shootout: The 10 Best Tape Saturation Plugins on the Market
I found the best use case here is across your 2-track. Setting up the Kramer tape there with a subtle amount of saturation doesn’t produce hair-raising effects immediately. It does, however, set up a...
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Super Producer Larrance Dopson of 1500 or Nothin’ — Teaching the Beats
There’d be times where he’d be in the studio, and add the drums, then be like, “Alright, I’m gone.” He’d go play video games, come back, and we got a mix now. We had the whole beat finished. We just...
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How to Sample Music Without Getting Sued: The Curious Case of the Most...
Lawyer Up Distributing music with unauthorized material—no matter the length of the sample—is technically copyright infringement. Even if you release it for free. To protect themselves, most record...
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The Top 10 Best Delay Plugins on the Market
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New Software Review: Universal Audio EL8 Distressor
On electric rhythm guitar, I was able to shave off just enough attack to make it sit right in the mix, and just as easily squeeze a solo and make it sit upfront where it needs to be. The various...
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Stalking Your DAW: Junkie XL Shares Intense Sounds with “Desert Dystopian”
There’s 85 sounds in the pack. The whole idea behind sounds.com is that they’re bite-sized chunks. It’s not like a library of a million samples. You might find something in sounds.com that immediately...
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New Gear Review: STX 600 Complimiter Mic Preamp by Spectra 1964
Spectra Sonics was founded in the city of Ogden, Utah by William G. Dilley in 1964. A combat pilot and WWII veteran, Dilley published over 300 engineering papers and technical articles during his...
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The Best Nearfield Studio Monitors Under $2,000 Each
Why Quality Studio Monitors Are Important It’s been long-established that an audio engineer’s main instrument is their studio monitors. At the front-end of the signal chain is the musician and their...
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The Quirky Habits of Great Mixers
Want to improve your mixing forever, for the better? Try Mixing Breakthroughs risk free for 30 days at MixingBreakthroughs.com Anyone who has worked on enough records knows that it’s not the tools that...
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