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As mixers and engineers, we get paid to sweat the small stuff. We listen for minute details in a recording that might not be immediately apparent to a listener, or even the musician playing their instrument. We strive to make everything polished and professional, from the clarity of the mix to the pocketing of our instruments. But if you’re not paying attention to your master fader, that just might be where it’s all falling apart.
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There’s reverb on absolutely everything. Even if you’re not pumping it into a song with a plugin, microphones capture the reverb of your environment (yes, even when you’re close micing something).
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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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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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Chorus vocals are the moneymakers for a lot of music – not just in pop. When you listen to a song that grows and grows through an intro & verse before hitting its peak in the chorus, it has a therapeutic “release
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