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Push it to the limit. Push it beyond the limit. Find ways to morph your sounds and make room for everything imaginable in the mix.
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Sometimes you’ve really gotta dirty part of your mix up for it to grab attention. Sometimes that means reaching for the closest compressor and driving the signal through it until you’ve got a fully saturated sound.
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Whether your primary genre is metal, pop or anything in between – synthesized bass is quickly becoming one of the most common ways to fill out the low end of a song. Some genres are using it to reinforce a live bass guitar.
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Dense mixes happen. They can be a gift and a curse; on one hand you’re filling out all of the possible space between a listener's headphone, on the other hand, everything in the mix is fighting for its own space.
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Drums are always a blast to work with, which might have something to do with the boundaries they push. They push our technical abilities as engineers and producers – requiring multiple microphones with exact placement and phase matching to record. They spread themselves across the entire audio spectrum.
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