This one keeps coming up very often: “what numbers should I be shooting at when it comes to the loudness of my mixes (and self-masters)?...

Budding music producers often find themselves looking for the elusive secret trick that the professionals (be it producers, mixers or...

Towards the end of last year, I got asked to master Thys' (of the Dutch electronic powerhouse trio Noisia) 17-track epic 'Music From Sleepin

Hybris captivated by (pseudo-)science. From releases on drum&bass most iconic labels like Goldie's Metalheadz, through remixing Moby, to...

Today’s blog post is a brief one, and zeroes in on a certain piece of mixing & mastering advice that roams throughout audio communities...

Referenced in my first blog post was psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s work on cognitive biases; and I am going to draw on his work yet...

Just like many verbalised concepts and adjectives that attempt to describe the qualities of a mix, ‘creamy-smooth’ is an elusive and...

With club music’s full fledged graduation into the mainstream music discourse over the recent years, an interesting and squarely...

Make a notch using a bell filter at 250Hz… is precisely not it. :) Way back when, when I’d first acquired an unquenchable thirst for...