sound engineering

In music production, an audio compressor is a sound effect (i.e., either an analog hardware unit or a digital audio software plugin) designed to reduce the dynamic range (DR) of the source material or entire mix as a means to either smoothly or aggressively control volume fluctuations...

The sound engineering jargon "mixing with eyes" means using visual displays from frequency spectrum analyzers and loudness meters such as VU (volume unit), dBFS, LUFS, K-Weighted meters, Sonograms, etc. to make audio mixing decisions. The same meaning applies to "mastering with your eyes" except...

A brickwall limiter is an audio signal processing effect either found in a physical hardware form or as a digital audio software plug-in extension (i.e., VST, AAX, AU plug-ins, etc) and is for the most part used in audio post-production (or audio mastering) to make music (or the program...

What's the appropriate amount of dB gain reduction you should do with Waves L2 Ultramaximizer mastering limiter?

Some hardware and plug-in dynamic processors (i.e., audio compressors and brickwall limiters) have a function that allows you to activate "auto-release" (or auto-recovery) which in turn adjusts the release time automatically with the input signal instead of a fixed setting e.g. 100 milliseconds...

RMS (i.e., short for Root Mean Square) is a measurement of the average perceived loudness in music. It doesn't take into account fast transients (or peaks) in the audio material in question, but rather the average level of sustained input audio signal for a given duration (e.g., 400 ms.) Now as...

Is oversampling enabled in iZotope's Ozone Maximizer by default?

Infrasonic sounds are audio frequencies that can not be heard by the human ear. I am talmbout audio material consisting of sounds that range from anywhere below 20 Hz to 0 Hz; however, ultrasound is anything above the upper limit of human hearing, id est 20 kHz. In music production, infrasonic...

A DAW (digital audio workstation) is a computer program or mobile software (i.e., an iOS or Android application) used by your favorite recording artists, music producers, film composers, sound designers, and audio engineers as a virtual environment to create intellectual property so that you as...

What's the standard procedure of sending your music material to a mixing engineer after you are done producing a beat?

If you have to master your music, one of the most common goals for most people is often to address RMS loudness levels and LUFS meter readings. Hence, in simple terms, you should perhaps consider mastering your song to an integrated LUFS metering reading and not give significant priority to...

How should you set a high-pass filter and a low-pass filter when mastering music?

How do you set Image-line FL Studio Fruity Parametric EQ 2 band to 24 dB/oct?

How do you mix kick and bass instruments in a mix?

Drum layering is a music production technique with the main purpose of stacking multiple drums together (e.g. two different kick drums or two different snare drums playing at the same time). So layering drums is similar to "creating a wall of sound" except here the idea isn't necessary to go...

What's the technique or process of making drums sound more punchy when mastering music?

Both sound mixing and audio mastering are part of the music production stages which help an artist and his/her record label to have a well-polished product or a contemporary competitive commodity to release to the market. Sound mixing comes before the mastering stage, but it's done after...

What's the common RMS target before a song is mastered?

What brickwall limiters do y'all like the most and why?

Do you sometimes mix with your eyes like looking at a frequency spectrum analyzer e.g Voxengo Span or Waves PAZ spectrum analyzer?