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Mixing is one of the hardest aspects of music production to get your head around, especially for beginners. With so many aspects such as gain staging, EQ, compression, automation etc. it is difficult...

A lot of home studios, including mine, contain a MIDI keyboard. Music gear can get expensive, and it's great when you can use a piece of equipment for multiple purposes. So can that MIDI keyboard you...

You may have a pair of studio headphones in your home studio that you use for your music production activities. If like most of us, your home studio is a multi-purpose room that can be used for...

Modern music recording hardware and software give us many options when it comes to applying effects to our tracks. Should we record with effects applied, and trust our ability to capture a great...

Equalization (EQ) was always one of the most challenging aspects of music production for me to learn when I was first starting out. However, I found if the meanings of EQ numbers and settings are...

In many years of mixing my musical projects, probably my most commonly reached-for tools in my DAW are the EQ and compression plugins. These have been vital in getting my mixes to sound clear and...