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Guitar Tracks: Building a Mix
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Guitar Tracks: Building a Mix

Mitch Gallagher discusses how mixing is about presentation—how the various elements of the music are combined, balanced, and conveyed by the overall sound of the mix.

Guitar Tracks: Learning Your Room
Reviews

Guitar Tracks: Learning Your Room

Before you can produce mixes that translate well in a variety of listening environments, you need to get intimately familiar with your own listening space.

Guitar Tracks: More Mix Tricks
Pro-Advice

Guitar Tracks: More Mix Tricks

Whether you’re mixing studio tracks or a live band in a venue, it’s crucial to have sonic references you can use to quickly gauge the sound system and room.

Mix Tricks
Reviews

Mix Tricks

Crafting a mix is a very specialized art form and it takes a combination of tools, experience, know-how, and, of course, ears.

iOS, Anyone?
Pro-Advice

iOS, Anyone?

No matter what style of music you make or how you prefer to work, there are apps and accessories for your iPad or other iDevice that will let you capture recordings and work on your music wherever you find yourself.

DAW Wars and More
Reviews

DAW Wars and More

Where do things stand with the current crop of top DAWs?

Keeping the Peace, Pt. 3
Pro-Advice

Keeping the Peace, Pt. 3

Let’s talk about how to put the four components of sound control to work in keeping sound from escaping our studios and music rooms.

Keeping the Peace, Pt. 2
DIY

Keeping the Peace, Pt. 2

In the real world, achieving a truly soundproof space is extremely difficult and extremely expensive.

Keeping the Peace
DIY

Keeping the Peace

Sound control is a real problem for all musicians.

Gear

Addressing Home-Studio Hums

I’ve received a flurry of questions from readers lately, so for this month’s column, I thought I’d share my responses to a handful of them in hopes that we can