Why you should bounce your MIDI to audio
#AudiotentTip 272. Bounce MIDI to Audio.MIDI is vital in today's digital audio workstations for triggering instruments or synthesisers. However, once you're happy with your patch/loop, we would adv...
#AudiotentTip 271. Reverb into Distortion.The most common placement for your reverb plugin is at the end of the processing chain. Adding reverb at the start of the chain and feeding it into distort...
#AudiotentTip 270. Vocal pitch correction.Pitch correction can sound very artificial if used excessively. Try to limit it to small amounts, so the vocal performance stays as natural as possible. Th...
#AudiotentTip 269. Abuse your compression.Most of the time you only need a little bit of compression to achieve a great result when mixing. However, occasionally you really want to abuse your compr...
#AudiotentTip 268. Sampling Instruments.Sampling your own acoustic instrument or even a synthesiser can be a great way to create unique timbres. This will help to develop your signature sound and w...
#AudiotentTip 267. Acoustic Treatment.You can have the greatest and most expensive monitors in the world, but if your room is poorly treated this will affect what you are hearing as well as your mi...
#AudiotentTip 266. Sine Sub Harmonics.A sine wave is a great waveform to use for your sub-layer. However, the sine wave doesn't have any upper harmonics and can get lost on smaller speakers, laptop...
#AudiotentTip 265. Critical Listening.You can learn a lot by carefully listening to you favourite productions. Choose four or five of your favourites and listen to them from start to finish. Whilst...
#AudiotentTip 264. Mixing in mono.A great mixing technique that is used by some of the worlds leading engineers is to mix in mono. Simply add a utility plugin on your master bus that allows you to ...
Loud mastering tips - serial limiting
#AudiotentTip 263. Serial Limiting.A great way to achieve a louder master is to limit in series. Running two limiters (one after another) helps to spread the load and can lead to more transparent m...