Hey guys, sorry I’ve been away a while. To ease my guilt, I’m writing a post about panning with an excessively cheesy title. Panning is exceptionally important for allowing each instrument in a mix to be heard without detracting from the song itself. It can also be used for funky effects, which can make one [...]
Normalisation (or normalization for the Americans), is a very useful tool when mastering or mixing down tracks. As I´ve said earlier, mastering aims to achieve the loudest possible mix without losing too much sound quality. Normalisation helps us achieve this by doing the following. Firstly, it finds the highest peak in a track. Secondly, it [...]
As a newbie to recording, you may have heard of compression or even played around with a compressor. However, at first it is quite difficult to understand exactly what all those knobs do. First things first… a compressor essentially limits all signals over a certain threshold value. When it limits these peaks or high volumes, [...]
This one goes out to Post Paint Boy… If you are new to home recording and your tracks sound unprofessional and quiet, this is most probably due to either bad or no mastering. Mastering is essentially a process which concerns the output levels of your final musical piece. In particular, it’s about trying to get [...]
When mastering, is limiting a good or bad idea? Here are my thoughts… I recently recorded some songs, they sounded fantastic in Ardour but when I mixed then down I found then slightly unsatisfying. Let me explain why… When mastering with JAMin, a limiter is activated by default. Essentially what this does is it takes [...]
