Having a good pair of headphones will help you in many ways. First, you can hear all those tiny details hidden in your favorite songs, discover new things and enjoy music much more. Second (but not less important), headphones can be an invaluable tool to check your mixes or masters, especially when you don’t have a perfect …
If you are addicted to plugins or just curious as I am, you probably know we spend way to much time trying many different pieces of software that do the same thing, more or less. Compression, saturation, equalization…The list goes on. It’s no lie to say there are literally dozens of different vintage compressors or …
You just finished your latest mix and it’s really rocking. Deep lows, clear highs…It’s sounding amazing in your studio. But how do you know if it will translate well on other systems? A good trick I always adopt to address this is to make use of a my iPod dock station. Pretty much anything small will be …
Whether you’re a musician or an engineer, your goal is the same in both cases: evolve, get better and produce better music. But what is the really first step towards making better music? The answer is both simple and difficult at the same time: you need to get better at listening before you can be …