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Three and a half minutes. For decades, this was pretty much the standard length of a top-50 song. Long enough to set up a melody, a chorus multiplied by two or three, a bridge and the occasional solo…

Whispered vocals, deep bass, assertive silences... This singular aesthetic owes nothing to chance: it reveals a way of thinking about mixing that goes significantly against the grain of modern pop co…

Thom Yorke and Radiohead play with our emotions through unexpected chords. Between modal borrowings, suspensions and enrichments, these harmonic choices often create tension, strangeness and beauty.

Greg Calbi has had quite a run as a mastering engineer—43 years, to be precise—and he's still going strong. He’s mastered over 8,000 albums during that time, many of them classics.

Succeeding as a freelance mixing engineer in New York City is no easy feat, but Ryan West has done it, impressively. Working predominantly on the hip-hop and R&B scenes, his credit list includes such…

Native Instruments continues its one-year Stems anniversary giveaway with the launch of a mix competition in collaboration with Mixcloud.

A group of audio professionals has launched a petition requiring music streaming services to properly manage audio loudness.

Sonokinetic presents the 2016 Composing Awards, a contest consisting in composing a score for a short movie.

Audified organizes a video contest with coupons for up to $400 off on their products at stake.

Soonvibes and Universal Music organize a remix contest involving Penthox's "Give It Away".

This is neither a close deadline nor an invitation to procrastinate, but remixing OST for the movie "Tomorrow" gives you an opportunity to win prizes.

Today I'll describe how we will be proceeding to be able to work with reverbs in all tranquility.

In the first article of this mixing series I told you it would be a long journey, both for you and me. As with every quest, sometimes it's good to take a pause to let it all sit for a while and start…

As we saw in the previous article, the I, IV and V chords of a major scale are themselves...major!

Thanks to Audiofanzine, you can register to Fab Dupont's master class on August 22-23 in France with a 20% discount.

Finding an acceptable level of latency is something everyone making music with computers must deal with at times. For some of us it's child's play, but for some others it can get complicated very qui…

Now that we have analyzed EQing during mixdown, let's talk a bit about the tools capable of carrying out the task.

Now that we have analyzed EQing during mixdown, let's talk a bit about the tools capable of carrying out the task.

The MIDI Manufacturers Association organized at NAMM a discussion around the HD protocole they’ve been working on for several years.

Here’s the last episode in the From Creation to Final Mix by Avid and PureMix in partnership with Audiofanzine. But not the least interesting…