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Guest Writer April 12, 2013

Maintaining Mono Compatibility In Your Music Mix

This is a guest post by Barry Gardner, the mastering engineer who operates SAS audio mastering services.

The first stereo records were made in the 1930′s and yet it took a long time to popularize the new format and release such recordings for mass consumption. Mono recordings were the standard for many years whilst various attempts were made to advance stereophony. In music production itself there has almost always been a mono button built into the master section of large format stereo or quadraphonic mixing consoles. It was there for good reason as stereo recordings had to maintain sonic compatibility with AM sound systems and monophonic broadcasts amongst other reasons.
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Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: audio, hearing, phase, plugins, stereo image, timing 2 Comments

Guest Writer February 18, 2013

Effective Techniques to Learn Compression

Learn compression

Compression has become an integral ingredient of most music these days. At the same time it remains somewhat a secret science – a commonly misunderstood one. It’s a great pleasure to have the mastering engineer Barry Gardner from SafeandSound online mastering services to talk to us about how to learn compression. During his long career in music Barry has worked with people such as Terry Callier, Ronnie Wood, Craig David, Kano, Chick Corea and many others. Needless to say he knows his stuff. Time to pay attention.

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: audio, compression, drums, dynamics, effects, hearing, mastering, mixing, transients 7 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen February 10, 2013

Maschine Tutorial Videos – Inspiration and Advanced Techniques

I am an avid fan of the Native Instruments Maschine. I just love it. What strikes me the most is how it can be used in so many different ways. I’ve picked up a lot by watching videos on Youtube and observing how other people are using it. There are tons of Maschine tutorial videos out there. HOWEVER… That’s the problem.

Youtube has become infested with poorly produced crap “tutorials” that don’t really offer anything of interest to most people.

“Dubstep for 12-year olds.”

“Idiot’s guide to chopping the funky drummer.”

“Homie got a trap kit.”

Bollox.

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: drums, effects, Guitar Rig, hardware, inspiration, live performance, Maschine, Native Instruments, plugins, saturation, software, video 4 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen January 9, 2013

My Master Plugins Revealed

I’m often asked what master plugins I use on my main output channel when working on music.

Let’s take a look at a typical setup and what I do with those bad boys…

Please note: These plugins can be used as mastering plugins. However this post is not about a mastering situation. These plugins are what I use on the master output channel during the production and mixing process.

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: distortion, EQ, FabFilter, limiting, mastering, mixing, plugins, PSP, Sonimus, Voxengo 21 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen August 29, 2012

Universal Grooves – Mastering an Album

The new album from Translation Recordings – Universal Grooves – has just been released. As with all their releases, I was responsible of the mastering. I’ve been meaning to write a little bit about mastering here on the blog so what better time to get to it than now?

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: compression, EQ, Logic, mastering, PSP, Sonimus, Translation Recordings 2 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen May 30, 2012

Free Plugin Tip: TAL-Dub 2

TAL-Dub 2 is a vintage style delay that squeeks and distorts as you push it’s limits. It’s a very well thought out little beast and I love the way it sounds.

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: delay, download, plugins, software 2 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen May 28, 2012

How To Sound Fat Like Pete Rock

You know, there’s a reason why drums sounded so good on a lot of tunes recorded in the 90′s…

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: drums, hardware, samples 2 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen May 23, 2012

A Flaw in Logic (And How to Fix It)

There’s one simple but VERY annoying issue with Apple Logic that really bugs me.

This problem constantly occurs with stereo image.

You must sort it out in order to achieve a solid mix…

And yet Logic doesn’t have a straight up way for dealing with it!

Before all you Ableton or Cubase kids cream your twinkies… Your situation might not be much better so pay attention!

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: EQ, Logic, Melda Productions, PSP, software, stereo image 11 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen May 10, 2012

Kernel Decoded: Our Secrets Revealed

A while back Loxy and I shared a tune called “Kernel” as a free download to celebrate the release of the Loxy & Resound sample pack on Loopmasters.

Not only that – we also shared the Logic project files so that you could pick our brains and see how it was made.

But it’s obscure science to say the least… We don’t roll obvious!

So now it’s time to break it down and answer your questions about the project…

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Ilpo Kärkkäinen April 30, 2012