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LANDR Apps - Tested
Both online collaboration and online mastering platforms have gained much traction in recent years. With engineers and artists juggling messages with tweaks and approvals separately, we look at the very latest solution which hopes to bring them all together.
We Check Out Mastering In Studio One
With many DAWs leaning on either their production chops, or their mastering credentials, some using Studio One could be missing a significant part of what this DAW can do on both sides of the same coin. We highlight some of its features.
Experts Dream Studio Gear Advent Calendar - Day 17 Softube Console 1
The Experts team wondered what we thought people would want to find behind the windows of a dream studio advent calendar. Today Luke Goddard talks about his trusty channel strip, Softube Console 1.
Apple Announce Immersive Loudness Guidance - RTW Worldwide Delivery Specification Resource Updated
According to RTW’s worldwide loudness spec resource, Apple appears to be the first streaming service to issue specific guidelines for loudness in immersive content for its streaming platform. Although the difference is not huge, it is good to see that Apple considers immersive audio a format that deserves its own loudness recommendations. We have the details.
We Try Nugen Modern Mastering Bundle For Creatives
Increasingly, songwriters and composers are finding themselves wearing extra hats that extend far beyond their creative leanings. With many finding themselves in charge of final deliverables, can creatives deliver using engineers’ tools?
5 Essential Mix Checks And Why They Matter
With mixers delivering for an ever-growing list of platforms and playback devices, keeping tabs on the mix’s technical health has never been more important. Here are our five essential checks and why they matter.
What Are The Preferred Features Of A DAW For Mastering?
Most DAWs are built with production in mind. While you can use a regular DAW for mastering, some DAWs are better suited to this task than others. Erman Aydöner considers the priorities for a tool for mastering.
Using Acon Digital Acoustica For Music Mastering
While music mastering duties are entirely doable in the mix engineer’s DAW, mastering engineers frequently opt for a dedicated platform. We use one solution that hopes to expand its reach beyond its own post-production instincts.
PSP auralControl - First Look
PSP Audioware’s latest plugin release – auralControl – provides a quick and convenient way to make adjustments to individual channels of a surround mix or stem. Paul Maunder takes a closer look…
Replace Drums In Premixed Audio In Three Moves
With the right tools, drum sounds that are baked into mixes can be changed after the event. We show you how.
iZotope Ozone 10 Mastering Suite - First Look
iZotope has just released the tenth full version of their industry- and home studio-standard software mastering suite, Ozone. Ronan Macdonald has been diving in to give us his initial impressions…
Automated Mastering - Is It The End Of Mastering Engineers?
More AI mastering services are appearing in music production. Does this spell the end for professional engineers? We discuss AI mastering and invite two mastering engineers to give their opinion. The answer may surprise you.
5 Audio Production Terms We Need To Stop Confusing
The audio industry has its own words, in fact we’ve got as much jargon and acronyms as an episode of Line of Duty. Many of them matter, here are five we need to stop confusing… now.
We Try POWAIR To Get Consistent Mix Compression The Easy Way
Compressing entire music mixes effectively can present different challenges to channel processing. We look at ways in which to achieve controllable, consistent compression that works with the music.
How To Replace Instruments In Premixed Audio
When revisiting mixes, working with premixed audio has fewer limitations than was once the case. We look at one technique that works better than you might think…
Can An Intelligent EQ Be Simple And Versatile?
With so many tools promising equalisation with spectral awareness of their own, can any of them offer broad options and simplicity in one? We look at one solution that thinks it can.
Don't Ignore Dithering Audio In 2022
For the uninitiated, dither exists to solve a distinctly digital problem. That is, how to resolve very low level sounds that happen beneath the lower limit of a system’s working range. Most will be familiar with dithering, but in the streaming era do we still need it? We investigate.
Sticking A Plugin On Your Mix Is Not Mastering
I want to say from the outset I'm not a mastering engineer, so I have no skin in the game, but I think it's about time we stopped calling the insertion of a plugin on a mix and reducing the dynamic range 'mastering'.
Check Out These 6 FREE Plugins For Mastering In 2022
In this article, Julian Rodgers shares 6 suggestions for mastering on the tightest of budgets, zero, using nothing but free plugins.