How To Give Your Chorus A Bigger Impact
TL;DR: Alex’s chorus lacked impact, making his track feel underwhelming. To fix it, we focused on dynamic contrast (so the drop slaps like it should), cleaning up the first beat (so the impact is...
How To Get A Super-clean Bass Sound When Mastering
Tackling the low end is probably the most difficult aspect of mastering, even if you're working in an acoustically treated room and on great-sounding studio monitors. That's why so many amateur mas...
The First 5 Things You Should Do When Using REFERENCE
Struggling to get your mixes up to commercial standards? Wish you could make your mixes sound like professionally produced tracks? Gaining an understanding of how to make your music sound like your...
Difficult Mastering Problems And How To Solve Them
What happens when you can’t ‘fix it in the mix’? Give up…? Or try some ninja skills to solve nasty problems in the master itself? You’ve got to roll out those ninja skills. In this blog post I'm ...
A Systematic Approach To ACTUALLY Improve As A Music Producer
Are you frustrated that your mixes are not getting any better over time? Or perhaps they’re improving but you want to get to the destination of ‘Pro Mixes’ faster? Energy and persistence are nec...
The Most Powerful Feature in REFERENCE: The Level Line
Our REFERENCE plugin is jam-packed with powerful features that are guaranteed to transform your music productions. That said, REFERENCE's most formidable tool is also one of its most understated: t...
