Stop Guessing. Start Mixing With Intention.
Stop Guessing. Start Mixing With Intention.
Turn any mix up and it sounds better. Fuller, more exciting, more “finished.” This is the single most reliable phenomenon in all of audio, and it has wrecked more mixes than any plugin ever could. Here’s the trap in one…
Short answer: aim for around -14 LUFS integrated with true peaks at -1 dBTP (-2 dBTP if you want Amazon-safe headroom), and one master covers every platform. That’s the whole practical answer. Bookmark it and move on if that’s all…
Noise reduction is one of the few places in audio where doing the right things in the wrong order actively damages the result. Every clean-up stage analyses the signal it receives, so each process you run changes what the next…
Your mix has a huge, satisfying low end on your monitors. You play it through a phone speaker and the bass is just… gone. Meanwhile a commercial track on the same phone speaker still sounds like it has weight and…
You nail the mix on your headphones. Balanced, clear, exciting. Then you play it in the car and the vocal’s are buried, the bass is gone or boomy, and the whole thing sounds like a different song. I’ve been there…
First, the permission slip you don’t need: there is no licensing body for mix engineers. No client checks credentials. In 15+ years of professional work, I have never once been asked for my qualification. I have one. Whether it was…
Complete equal-temperament chart, tuned to A4 = 440 Hz. Frequencies in Hz. Note Octave 0 Octave 1 Octave 2 Octave 3 Octave 4 Octave 5 Octave 6 Octave 7 Octave 8 C 16.35 32.70 65.41 130.81 261.63 523.25 1046.5 2093.0…
“Why does my mix sound muddy?”, I hear you ask. A mix sounding muddy is a most common complaint in home-studio mixing, and potentially the most misunderstood. People go looking for “the mud frequency,” cut it on the master, and…
I’m going to be more frank about my audio education than most graduates are willing to be, in both directions. College taught me essential things. But it also sent me into professional sessions with confident but wrong answers, and the…
You finish a mix. It sounds decent in isolation. Then you A/B it against a commercial track in the same genre, and yours sounds small. Quiet. Thin. So you reach for a limiter, push the input, and chase their level.…
The Student Toolkit comes with the Pro tier. You’re on Self-Paced, which gives you the full course and every multitrack, so what you’re looking at here is a preview of what sits next door.
Here’s what Pro adds:
Upgrading costs the difference between the two tiers, A$2,000. Your course progress stays exactly where it is, and there’s no application to fill out.