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The morning of parallel nothing!

Last night I was flipping through the old Mastering Audio book by Bob Katz and happened across the section about parallel compression. I like to use it to beef up my drums, however in the mastering concept of parallel compression the compressor is virtually in permanent extreme gain reduction due to the high threshold that [...]

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AKG 240s Headphones

Recently I finally got around finishing the mixes for John B’s Hair and the Trumpet Song. I was pretty surprised at the way they came out. I did the mixes a bit different this time. I mixed them using headphones. I always hear and do subscribe to the idea that you should avoid mixing with [...]

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Finished My First Pro Tools Mixing Session

I just my first mixing session in Digidesign’s Pro Tools. It wasn’t that bad. A little different from Cubase SX2. I actually found it pretty easy to understand once I figured out everything I needed to know how to do. One thing that seemed a mystery at first was setting up the sends. Good thing I [...]

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