[Feature Article] Improve Your Drum Tracks With a Noise… - A guide to mixing music - Part 48
This week I'll show you how to use a Noise Gate to significantly improve your drum tracks.
[Feature Article] Getting Creative with a Noise Gate - A guide to mixing music - Part 47
Up to now we have only seen the more typical uses of a Noise Gate. Now we'll start looking into less obvious techniques that can make a gate much more interesting during mixdown.
[Feature Article] Use a Gate to Kill the Spill - A guide to mixing music - Part 46
In the previous installment, we saw what bleed is, and the problems it can cause during mixdown. Today we'll look at how to remove or minimize this harmful phenomenon with a noise gate.
[Feature Article] Don't Let it Bleed - A guide to mixing music - Part 45
Today we'll talk about the phenomenon of mic bleed, and how it can cause difficulties during a mix.
[Feature Article] Setting the Gate - A guide to mixing music - Part 44
Now that we've seen the main parameters of a Noise Gate, let's move on to the practical side, starting with its most traditional use: suppressing noise.
[Feature Article] Noise Gate 101 - A guide to mixing music - Part 43
This week we'll tackle a type of dynamics processing that was used all the time in the analog days, but, bizarrely enough, doesn't get called upon nearly as much in the all-digital era. And yet it's …
[Feature Article] Transient Processors - A guide to mixing music - Part 42
While the compressor is the tool par excellence when it comes to treating the dynamics of an audio signal, you shouldn't forget that there are other types of processors that can prove just as effecti…
[Feature Article] A Who's Who of Software Compressors - A guide to mixing music - Part 41
The number of compressor plug-ins on the market is overwhelming. As you'll surely understand, it would be impossible for me to create an complete list here. Nevertheless, my collaboration with Audiof…
[Feature Article] Dialing in a Multiband Compressor - A guide to mixing music - Part 40
In the previous article we saw how multiband compression can be used at the mixing stage. Today I'll show you how to dial in a multiband compressor to get the best results.
[Feature Article] A First Look at Multiband Compression - A guide to mixing music - Part 39
In this new installment we'll tackle multiband compression during mixdown.