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How to Ace the “Static Mix”: Get Levels & Panning Right the 1st Time — SonicScoop:
In this article, I’m going to show you how to nail the most important step in mixing. If you want high-quality mixes, getting the volume balance right (also known as the “static mix”) is crucial.
Why Do My Mixes Sound Bad? 8 Tips to Douse the Flames:
First, make sure something isn’t actually amiss with your gear. Many are the times where it hasn’t actually been my ears. With a panoply of hardware pieces and software abounding, it’s easy to see where something might mangle the proceedings in the chain.
Let me hear…route the audio through T-Racks One, Sonarworks, Ozone 8, and out through Sonarworks. Where did all that sub-50 information come from 😉
5 Ways Inter-plugin Communication Streamlines Audio Mixing:
Inter-plugin communication is a technology developed here at iZotope that allows our plug-ins to interact and share invaluable information with one another across a session, helping you produce, mix, and master with better results.
Not only does iZotope make these excellent tools, they provide a large library of documentation and practical guides to the mixing and mastering processes.
What Is Mix Depth? How to Create Front-Back Space:
A sense of dimension is a key characteristic that separates professional mixes from amateur ones. Most engineers think of dimension in three ways: height, width, and depth. Height is frequency content and width is the stereo field. Depth is the front-to-back space in a mix and is a tricker area to navigate than the previous two.
Whereas some aspects of music production are driven by emotion or technical prowess, principles of depth draw on “real world” phenomena that deal with how sound moves through a space. In this article, we’ll look at how to add depth to a mix with practical tips related to EQ, timbre, reverb, and more.
The Reason Why You Can’t Hear Your Bass On Small Speakers — Bobby Owsinski’s Music Production Blog:
Most of the time the problem comes from misunderstanding exactly what frequencies affect the bass instrument. Too many times we think that it’s the frequencies below 100Hz (especially 60Hz) that provide the bass we need. While it’s quite true that those frequencies are important for what we might call the girth of the sound, they won’t reproduce well on small speakers, and that’s where the problem lies. In other words, EQing too low.
Below 100Hz Girth
120Hz to 200Hz Bottom
250Hz to 320Hz Low-end definition
700Hz Body
1kHz to 1.5kHz High-end definition
2.5kHz to 3kHz String noise/buzz