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How to Use Reference Tracks to Improve Your Mix and Master 

Here’s something interesting: Everything you perceive in life is always in relation to something else. When someone says a $1,000 MIDI controller is expensive, they’re not saying it in isolation. They’re comparing it to something. Maybe they just saw a $250 controller, so $1,000 suddenly feels expensive. Or maybe they’re weighing it against the joy they’d […]

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Beginner’s Guide: How to Use Equalizers In Music Production?

I get it… All this talk about “EQ” and “gain staging” or “parallel compression” can be scary. However, if you break down these seemingly complex and “scary” tasks into bite-sized pieces, you can get them figured out in no time. In this guide, I’m going to focus on how to use equalizers for your tracks. […]

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Is It Worth Paying for Professional Mixing and Mastering?

So you’ve worked hard on recording and arranging your music track. Next, comes the mixing and mastering process. Well, is it worth paying a professional to mix and master your music tracks? Is it better cost-wise to simply learn how to mix and master yourself? A plain answer to whether it’s worth paying for professional […]