Mixing and Mastering

Mastering Your Music: Stereo Imaging and Reference Mastering Reading time: 8 minutes Part 1: Master Bus Processing » Part 2: Tone Shaping » Part 3: Stereo ImagingWelcome to the final part of our professional mastering guide, straight from S... Read More...

Mastering Your Music: Tone Shaping and Multiband Compression Reading time: 7 minutes Part 1: Master Bus Processing » Part 2: Tone Shaping » Part 3: Stereo ImagingWelcome to part two of our professional mastering guide. In this tutorial, we'... Read More...

Mixing music used to be something artists rarely had to think about. In the days before Electronic Music, an artist could go their entire career without any more than a rudimentary understanding of engineering or mixing. When making a record, typic... Read More...

You’ve just put the finishing touches on your new track, and it sounds Amazing. But tomorrow you play it at a friend’s studio and... huh? You give it to a club DJ and the bass frequencies (and the dancefloor) have disappeared! If you've noticed pe... Read More...

When working with sampled breaks and raw drum loops, you may find they lack the punch and impact required for your track. Often they need a little extra processing to sit well with more modern production elements, or just to fit in with your mix. Thi... Read More...

Producer and mix engineer Shawn Naderi  (aka Naderi) joined us as guest trainer in our Mixing & Mastering course. This guy is a force of nature. Shawn was something of a mentor to both Chris and the other half of What So Not - Harley Streten (aka... Read More...

Eric J Dubowsky is a man of many talents, though in recent times he's probably best known for his work in mixing records for Chet Faker (for which he received the 2014 ARIA award for "Engineer of the Year"), Flume and Flight Facilities.  Beyond mixin... Read More...