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Sage AudioGearMastering Doesn’t “Fix a Mix” - This Does A lot of people think mastering will fix a mix. It can certainly help fix some issues, but not entirely.

Sage AudioGearThe Strangest Audio Discoveries I Found from 7 Years of Research I’ve been making these mastering, mixing, audio production videos for a while, and have come across a lot of cool concepts.

Sage AudioGearThe Final Stages of Vocal Mixing - How to Compete with a Pro Vocal Mix So, you’ve recorded, edited, and mixed your vocal, as well as made it work within the context of the full production.

Sage AudioGearThe Most Underrated Part of Mixing I could spend hours talking about different saturators, compressors, reverbs, and all of the small nuances that make them unique or beneficial to a project.

Sage AudioGear4 Small Tweaks that DRASTICALLY Improved my Mixes This is something that took me a while to figure out. Even after the various psychoacoustic classes I took in college, and researching for these videos, it took me an embarrassingly long time to come…

Sage AudioGearThe Top 5 Mastering Limiters of All Time There are hundreds of limiters out there - I haven’t tried every single one, of course, but over the past 10 or so years, these have been the ones I use time and time again.

Sage AudioGearReverb on a Master: Everything You Need to Know Using reverb during mastering isn’t very common, but knowing when and how to use it is a valuable skill for any producer, mixing, or mastering engineer.

Sage AudioGearMusic and Dissonance - Knowing this will Drastically Improve Any Mix There’s always a degree of subjectivity in music production. For every engineer who prefers odd-order harmonic distortion, one will prefer even, and another will be indifferent.

Sage AudioGearThe WORST Music Mixing Advice on the Internet YouTube is amazing if you’re trying to learn something new; however, it’s also full of people offering useless or blatantly incorrect info.

Sage AudioGearAll Processing is Connected - Crucial Knowledge for Pro Mixes & Masters We often think of an EQ as separate from a clipper. Or a compressor as a different tool than a temporal effect like reverb.

Sage AudioGearHow to Mix Drums (the Best Way to Mix Drums) To keep things organized, we’re going to address these points 1 by 1 throughout the video, building on ideas as we go. These points are:

Sage AudioGearHow to ACTUALLY record at home: Guitar and Vocals The recording industry 50 years ago was a much more exclusionary place. In order to get high quality recordings, you needed access to expensive studios and talented audio engineers.

Sage AudioGearCreating an Analog Master in the Box Believe it or not, this is, at least in my opinion, the most challenging part of the chain.

Sage AudioGear4 Affordable Plugins You’ll Actually Use There are thousands of audio plugins out there - some of which you might use once or twice and then go back to your tried-and-true processors.

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The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

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