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Let’s look at two traditional approaches to mastering. The more old-school approach is to take each song, master it, and then, as a separate operation, assemble all the songs into a cohesive whole….

talkIing about what mastering is and roughly the mastering process you should apply to your future songs if you choose to master your own songs. In the second post, expect a more detailed explanation of how to master your songs…

Do you want to get media attention and blog coverage for your music? Then you need to create an awesome press release. But what should you write, feature, and link to in your press release to give yourself the best…

There are some basic elementary rules crucial to having the right mindset when you start a mix, and others when developing that mix up to the end. Today I’m not going to approach this subject but talk about some of the…

Sibilance is natural for almost every vocalist and is needed to understand speech. Also, these vocal sounds contain a large proportion of high frequencies (thousands of Hertz). They originate in the mouth and by air passing around the teeth….

I know that getting vocals to sound right in a home studio environment will always be a challenge. To avoid falling into the same traps that many beginner producers do, I’ve put together 12 common mistakes in-home studio vocal production…