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Audio Shootout: The 10 Best Tape Saturation Plugins on the Market
I found the best use case here is across your 2-track. Setting up the Kramer tape there with a subtle amount of saturation doesn’t produce hair-raising effects immediately. It does, however, set up a...
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Super Producer Larrance Dopson of 1500 or Nothin’ — Teaching the Beats
There’d be times where he’d be in the studio, and add the drums, then be like, “Alright, I’m gone.” He’d go play video games, come back, and we got a mix now. We had the whole beat finished. We just...
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How to Sample Music Without Getting Sued: The Curious Case of the Most...
Lawyer Up Distributing music with unauthorized material—no matter the length of the sample—is technically copyright infringement. Even if you release it for free. To protect themselves, most record...
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The Top 10 Best Delay Plugins on the Market
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New Software Review: Universal Audio EL8 Distressor
On electric rhythm guitar, I was able to shave off just enough attack to make it sit right in the mix, and just as easily squeeze a solo and make it sit upfront where it needs to be. The various...
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Stalking Your DAW: Junkie XL Shares Intense Sounds with “Desert Dystopian”
There’s 85 sounds in the pack. The whole idea behind sounds.com is that they’re bite-sized chunks. It’s not like a library of a million samples. You might find something in sounds.com that immediately...
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New Gear Review: STX 600 Complimiter Mic Preamp by Spectra 1964
Spectra Sonics was founded in the city of Ogden, Utah by William G. Dilley in 1964. A combat pilot and WWII veteran, Dilley published over 300 engineering papers and technical articles during his...
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The Best Professional Nearfield Studio Monitors for Under $2,000 Each
It’s been long-established that an audio engineer’s main instrument is their studio monitors. At the front-end of the signal chain is the musician and their instrument. And at the back-end is the...
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The Quirky Habits of Great Mixers
Want to improve your mixing forever, for the better? Try Mixing Breakthroughs risk free for 30 days at MixingBreakthroughs.com Anyone who has worked on enough records knows that it’s not the tools that...
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Best Headphones for Mixing: $400 & Under [2024]
This article is also available as a video and podcast episode. Introduction: Why Mix on Headphones? I recently did a post on the best headphones for mixing and mastering, and it was one of our most...
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