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BASIC AUDIO
Dynamics Compression, Dispelling Myths and Avoiding Common Errors

Articles BASIC AUDIO Series This series of elementary level items branded as BASIC is designed for amateur sound engineers seeking to increase their awareness and competence in mixing and audio recording in general. In the...
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BASIC AUDIO
Equalisation, Dispelling Myths and Avoiding Common Errors

Articles BASIC AUDIO Series This series of elementary level items branded as BASIC is designed for amateur sound engineers seeking to increase their awareness and competence in mixing and audio recording in general. With...
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Analogue and digital audio recording: considerations and comparisons

Analogue and digital audio Irreconcilable is the ongoing debate between the supporters of analogue and those of digital. If it can be a reference, I don't mind quoting the opinion of a musician who is considered one of the greatest...
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MS Mastering

MS MASTERING So-called M/S Mastering involves the execution of certain types of processing operations, executable between one encoding operation and another decoding operation of the mix, which transforms the L-R (Left-Right) matrix into a...
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Stem Mastering - The rules for a correct process

NOTE This article can be considered a continuation of an earlier introductory article, entitled: Stem Mastering - Basic Principles What Stems Gang of Four One possibility, suggested by sound engineer Bob Katz and applicable...
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Stem Mastering - Part 1: Definition and operating principles

Stem Mastering We could also call it Multi Track Mastering and define it as a middle way between a simplified Mix and the more usual Single Track Mastering. Instead of manipulating a single stereo mix, in addition to it we will in fact use...
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The mental approach to effective audio mixing

Foreword: What is audio mixing for? Many might take the answer to this question for granted. However, both during some seminars and in conversations with various industry professionals, I have come across numerous misunderstandings...
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A Brief History of Mixing

Orchestration as Prototypical Mixing. The art of arranging, orchestration and finally orchestral conducting, deeply rooted in music, can also be understood as an 'acoustic proto-mixing'....
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Loudness in mastering - part 2

Continued from Part 1: https://www.alessandrofois.com/loudness-nel-mastering-parte-1-dinamica/ To prevent background noise and other disturbances inherent in recording media (e.g. tape hiss...
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Loudness in mastering - part 1

Dynamics Dynamic amplitude In a piece of music or speech, it is the difference in volume between phrasing at lower and higher volume. In acoustic music (without amplification), that performed by the...