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This is a great way to manage the volume or level of a pair of tracks for a single instrument. For example, the overheads, a guitar cabinet or the acoustic guitar. I almost always use two mics on my acoustic guitar, a Shure SM-57 somewhere around the 12th fret pointed . . . Read more
You’ve just finished processing your drums and they sound amazing… when they’re solo’d… but when you bring back the rest of the mix, the other elements take over and the drums seem to vanish into the background. If you’re happy with the sound of the processed drum tracks, you probably don’t . . . Read more
Let’s say you have a vocal track with one word or phrase that’s just way above (or below) the rest of the track. Here’s a simple way to drop the volume of just that word or phrase, which will help the track sit better in the mix. It will also . . . Read more