LEVELS 1- No Clipping Are there any red lights on any channels 2- Headrooms is there about 3-6db headroom? 3- Dynamics Is there any sudden unwanted level changes CRITICAL LISTENING 4- Clarity are all instruments clearly audible 5- Priorities are the most important instruments the loudest 6- Reference Is the sound close enough to the…
I once had some awful speakers (not naming names!) which had a null at the ‘low conga’ EQ position. Every time I mixed in a low conga, it would sound awful anywhere else and totally dominate the mix. It’s therefore well worth setting up monitors for optimum listening, and here are a few tips to…
First time in Lebanon ! A very useful and interesting workshop will be held at Steinberg Training center at Ragtime studio in June covering essential oriental music arrangement trend where Mr. Boudy Naoum will share his knowledge and know how on the best practices in arrangement, song management, mix and mastering , passed students in…
If your final mastering results still isn’t right despite your best EQ efforts, you might want to try an exciter or enhancer. Whereas EQs can accentuate noise, and only amplify what’s already there. Exciters raise the harmonics of the fundamental tones found in the recording, brightening dull mixes. As with everything in mastering, though, don’t…
Mastering is the term most commonly used to refer to the process of taking an audio mix and preparing it for distribution. There are several considerations in this process: unifying the sound of a record, maintaining consistency across an album, and preparing for distribution. The most essential in audio mastering The goal of this step…
At Steinberg training center at Ragtime studio we carefully set UAD apollo audiocard with appropriate effect bundle that helps in mix and mastering and give more wider space to final music and these sophisticated professional effects could be also integrated in our course and give intensive skills and techniques related to these. The good news…
Many of music producers still get confused between mix and mastering and what should be done in mix phase and what should be kept for mastering level. Mixing: Bringing Multiple Layers Together Mixing refers to the process of putting multiple layers of audio together to make one final track or to musically modify an existing…
