Archive for the ‘Mixing and Mastering’ Category

Creative Use of Send Tracks

Posted at Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 by mr_mark_dollin

More In:Depth geekery. Time to get creative with Send Tracks!

Shot of a hardware audio mixer that shows the FX sends for each channel and the FX receive channel.

Confident use of Send Tracks not only helps you create a clean mix, it also opens doorways to creative sound-design. Read on for the full article.

Monitoring For Gold: Triangulation For Final Mix Translation

Posted at Monday, June 7th, 2010 by mr_mark_dollin

Sick of the sonic sludge? Tweaking those mixes to no avail? Might be time to better understand the wonderful world of monitors. This article deals with how to use speakers to get a great final mix for your song. And you may be surprised to see just how low budget you can pull this off with. Read on…

Avoid clipping in your final mix

Posted at Friday, April 2nd, 2010 by mr_mark_dollin

So you’ve created an absolutely banging tune and it is time to give it a final polish making it ready for mastering. But, the little clipping indicator has been lighting up while your song plays, perhaps so much so the sound of your mix sounds rough and undesirably ugly. No good in having an amazing song if the final mix sounds like a fudged up mess!

MMD returns to writing for In:Depth, and in this article he will help you aim for a final mix that is nice and clean so it avoids clipping. You may learn a thing or two about Renoise too in the process.

Using Filters Part 2 – Shaping Sonics

Posted at Sunday, March 25th, 2007 by mr_mark_dollin

Using Renoise’s Filter2 effect to make the slickest of mixes.

Using Filters – Part 1

Posted at Sunday, March 18th, 2007 by BeatSlaughter

What filters are and how they can be used to improve your mix.

Gating: The best friend your heavy mix never knew it had?

Posted at Friday, March 16th, 2007 by BYTE-Smasher

People have often asked me, “BYTE, how do you get such aggressive mixes on just a crappy laptop?”, to which I respond,  “What the heck are you talking about? These mixes are awful! They’re wimpy as hell!” I know my sense of humour is dry and unfunny, but I do, however, have a few tips [...]