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Mixing Sense 7: Filling Out a Thin Mix

Mixing is usually about crowd control. But sometimes you'll have a thin mix of maybe two or three instruments. How can you fill it out to make it sound good and full? Reverb? Sure, if your target audience is people in shopping malls and elevators. But if you want people to actually listen, read on .

Published by glazfolk (532 pts ) on Aug 26, 2008 to
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Mixing Sense 6: Filling Out Vocals

A very common issue faced by the home recording enthusiast is the question of how to improve that sound of a rather thin and somewhat tentative vocal track. There's no one size fits all solution, but here is a good way to start.

Published by glazfolk (532 pts ) on Aug 25, 2008 to
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Mixing Sense 5: Brightening a Dull Instrument

Have you ever ended up with a take of an instrument that just sounds anaemic, dull and lifeless? The more you try to improve it the worse it sounds. In circumstances like these, panning, along with a couple of other simple can play a major part in helping you to bring that instrument to life.

Published by glazfolk (532 pts ) on Aug 25, 2008 to
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Mixing Sense 4: Width as a Dimension of Sound

Panning is the name given to the technique of spreading your instruments and vocals across the left-right spectrum between your speakers. Of course you already know that. But do you know how to use panning to its best effect?

Published by glazfolk (532 pts ) on Aug 25, 2008 to
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Mixing Sense 3: Height as a Dimension of Sound

Most home recording enthusiasts are familiar with the concept of using width to spread out the different instruments in a mix. But did you also know that height is just as important in getting a good mix?

Published by glazfolk (532 pts ) on Aug 25, 2008 to
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Mixing Sense 2: The Sound Spectrum

Have you ever wondered why you can listen to one mix and hear every part and instrument clearly, but listen to another and struggle to figure out what's going on? Well, wonder no more ...

Published by glazfolk (532 pts ) on Aug 25, 2008 to
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Mixing Sense 1: What's It All About?

You'd be amazed (or maybe you wouldn't) at how many home enthusiasts launch themselves body and soul into mixing their tracks, enthusiastically but with no real sense of direction. If that sounds familiar to you, let's start putting that right, right now.

Published by glazfolk (532 pts ) on Aug 25, 2008 to
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Don't Fear The REAPER

Over the last year or so, there's been a quiet revolution in the world of digital audio and home recording. It has been brought about with the development of a new generation Digital Audio Workstation - REAPER. How good is it? Read on ...

Published by glazfolk (532 pts ) on Aug 25, 2008 to
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The Best Podcast Software For You: A Guide to Podcasting Software

Picking podcast software depends mostly on the type of show you create. the best type really depends on what you want to do with it. This short guide covers the major differences in three popular podcast software packages: Propaganda 1.2, ePodcast Creator 2.0, and Podcast Station 2.1.

Published by Jeremy Rule (1,540 pts ) on Jul 7, 2008 to
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Tune Tools for iPod Review - Needs More Than Just a Tune Up

Tune Tools for iPod Multimedia Edition is a PC application that promises to manage all of your iPods from any computers you have while allowing for full control of all your songs and libraries. Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, it's too good to be true.

Published by Mike Garcen (2,703 pts ) on Feb 19, 2008 to
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