And Yet Another Article About Compression?
Compression seems like an obsession in the audio world. How many times have you heard “for the vocal I used a bit of corrective equalization, and some compression to taste”, [...]
Why Using A Mixing Template?
WHY USING A MIXING TEMPLATE? In 2013 when I quit my job at NaCena Studios, I literally drove down the street and immediately started working as a mixing assistant at [...]
A Guide to Mastering Your Own Mix
A GUIDE TO MASTERING YOUR OWN MIX If you mix music, you’ve undoubtedly heard of mastering. It is a critical stage in the music-making process; one that should never be [...]
What is gain staging?
What is gain staging? Why is it important in modern recording and mixing? What is V.U. meter and how can they help during these processes? These questions are constantly being [...]
Not Just Another G-Series Clone
In a market where we seemingly get a new (and often great) SSL emulation at least once a year, it takes a lot for me to replace my go to [...]
TUCO COMPRESSOR IN A NUTSHELL
The Tuco Compressor is based on vari-mu tube technology with feedback topology. Although it has similar characteristics to the classic Fairchild compressor, it is truly a different beast. With some [...]
Using gear limitation at your advantage
Written By William Robertson Intro We are, for most of us, all getting stuck at home. Far away from studios where you canhave all the studio gear you want to [...]
5 Tips On using the Tuco Compressor
BY MATTHEW SIM 1. Once you engage it, it already has the tube character, with a little bit of tube buzz, which is refreshing on certain things. It gives that [...]
DITHER AND FLOATING-POINT EXPLAINED FOR THE RECORDING ENGINEER (PT-3)
BY: LIC. EZEQUIEL MORFI | TITANIO CONCLUSION DITHERING and its siblings NOISE-SHAPING and AUTO-BLANKING are subjects of profound although often mistaken discussion, both in formal literature as well as in casual [...]
7 Tips to get an Analog Workflow in your DAW
The new technology in audio recording and mixing is amazing. A new parade of plugins, consoles and outboard emulations appeared in the last few years to revolutionize the field and [...]
DITHER AND FLOATING-POINT EXPLAINED FOR THE RECORDING ENGINEER (PT-2)
BY: LIC. EZEQUIEL MORFI | TITANIO FLOATING-POINT CALCULATIONS Today’s digital processing is entirely accomplished using FLOATING-POINT mathematical calculations in a single-precision format consisting of 32 bits (informally called “floats”), a [...]
3 TIPS FOR A THICK & WARM VOCAL TONE With Burnley 73
By Matthew Sim In recent decades, while everyone is chasing for the bright yet smooth pop vocal tone that competes on the radio, we tend to overlook the other side [...]
