There are many pitfalls to tackle when you are mastering your own music. Look out for these eight mastering mistakes that should be avoided.
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Mixing with mastering in mind
Mixing with mastering in mind in a digital audio workstation (DAW) ensures your mix sounds good in any format. You’ll save time and money too
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Psychoacoustics: How Sound Perception Influences Music Production
Psychoacoustics is the science of how we perceive sound. Used in music production, we can make emotional music really tug on the heartstrings
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8 Music Production Tips For Beginners
Music production tips for beginners to begin laying down tracks with confidence while keeping costs to a minimum with a home studio setup.
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Headphone Tips to Improve Vocal Performance
Tired of sub-par vocals? Then read this comprehensive guide with the best headphone tips to amp up your vocal performance.
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Proximity Effect: How Microphone distance affects sound
Use the proximity effect when recording by adapting the microphone distance.
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Electronic Music Production in 7 Easy Steps
Learn Electronic Music Production in 7 easy steps if you want to make it as an EDM producer. This guide will tell you the secret to success
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What is Stem Mastering? Differences from Standard Mastering
The term “stem mastering” is widely misunderstood by amateur music producers. This article is meant to explain exactly what stem mastering is
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DJ Controller and DJ Mixer: What are the Differences?
A DJ Controller is both a turntable and a mixer, connecting to DJ software on your laptop. A Mixer is a device designed for Mixing only.
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What is Mixing? Audio Mixing explained
What is mixing? Audio mixing is the process of joining all the individual tracks from a song into a single stereo track. This requires…
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Black Friday 2020: 50% Off All Orders!
Black Friday 2020: 50% off all orders!
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8 Music Marketing Strategies To Promote Your Band
We’ve compiled our top 8 tips for getting your music marketing strategy right. Essential for independent artists and bands.
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The History of Mastering: From Vinyl to Streaming
Audio Mastering is a difficult and often misunderstood endeavor. Partly because it has changed a…
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How to Choose a USB MIDI Controller for Your Home Studio
While not an essential piece of equipment for your home studio, a USB MIDI controller…
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How to Choose a Home Studio Digital Mixer to Improve Your Recordings
It’s good to have options. Usually. Sometimes, however, the more freedom we have, the more…
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MasteringBOX high-fives fifth anniversary with well-timed promotion alongside quality advancements
MasteringBOX is proud to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its namesake online mastering platform — powered by smart artificial intelligence that can cleverly detect the dynamic and spectral characteristics of the program material being mastered and apply appropriate adjustments to provide better sound and proper loudness to mixes with a fast and easy-to-use service, so amateur producers and independent artists alike can achieve great results that can compare to professional studio work — with a well-timed promotion alongside a quality quintet of website and Android app advancements, as of May 27…
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A Crash Course on Chord Types
If you’ve ever started learning how to play the acoustic guitar, you’re probably somewhat familiar…
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Black Friday: We’re Slashing Our Prices in Half!
We’re bringing you a special limited time offer! This Black Friday from November 25th to…
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Melody & Harmony: How to Make Your Music Memorable
Whether we’re discussing music production techniques or music theory, all the concepts, terms, and technical…
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Mixing While Recording: Should you be doing it too?
One of the greatest aspects of music production is all of the creative freedom it…
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Mastering Styles: Different Approaches to Mastering for Different Outcomes
The process of mastering can be difficult enough to wrap your head around as it…
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Fixing a Recording in the Mix: Is it Always Possible?
If you listen to enough music from different eras, you’ll begin to notice some major…
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Audio Synthesizers: Digital and Analog Synths Explained
To say that the audio synthesizer has forever changed, innovated, and defined modern music would be…
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Audio Mixing Myths: 5 Misconceptions that can Ruin your Mix
The internet is a wealth of information. It’s also a wealth of misinformation. While we…
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Your First DJ Turntable – Mixing, Sampling & Scratching
At some point in most music producers careers, the topic of DJing comes into view.…
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Mute and Solo: When, Why, and How to Mute/Solo When Mixing
Bringing a song to life in the studio requires careful consideration of several moving parts…
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3 Professional Audio Engineer Tips That You Should Know
Professional audio engineers have years of experience under their belts, and every engineer has wildly…
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8 Mind-Blowing Delay Plugins, Free and Paid
Delay has been one of the most used effects in music production since the early…
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Vocal Recording Techniques: 5 Ways to Shape a Vocal Take in the Studio
We’ve said it before but we’ll say it again: vocals are hard to get right.…
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Most Unique Waves Plugins: New Tools for Your DAW
Waves are one of the biggest plugin creators in the world. The variety of their…
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Bit Depth: What is it and How Does it Affect Your Work?
We live in a digital age. While we still use analog devices here and there,…
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Reverb Plugins: Choosing the Best Reverb Plugin for your mix
When it comes to the plugin market, there is often too much choice. Whether you’re…
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Creative Recording Techniques: 5 Ways to Get Creative in the Studio
Every good mix begins with a good recording. Weeks of intense mixing won’t make up…
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The Best DJ Software: Free and Paid
Knowing what tools you need is a necessary step in learning how to become a…
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Room Correction Cheats: Calibration Software and Monitor Positioning
Being able to get a flat frequency response when you are working on music is…
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What is Audio Dithering? And Why it’s Used on Mastering
As you further develop your skills as an engineer you’ll eventually come across the word…
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11 Best EQ Plugins for Windows and Mac
Mixing with EQ is necessary for giving each mix element room to breathe and properly…
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Black Friday Deal: Get 70% Off Your Order!
There’s no better time to sign up with MasteringBOX. In celebration of the holidays, we’re…
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Mixing Vocals to an Instrumental Track: 4 Tips to make them Blend
If you’re producing your own music or recording a full band, you’ll likely be recording…
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The Best Bass VST: Real & Synth Bass VSTi Libraries
There is no doubt in my mind that bass, whilst often overlooked, is fundamentally one…
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Mixing With Samples: How to Make Samples Work with Your Mix
You can do a lot with a good sample. If you’ve never used samples in…
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Finding the Best Vocal Microphone for you
Here at MasteringBox, we’re always looking for ways to offer as much help and advice…
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Learn Piano Online: 4 Great Resources to Learn Keyboard
At some point in almost every producer’s career, you will come to an inevitable conclusion.…
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Best Books for Audio Engineers and Musicians
As a lecturer in audio engineering and music production techniques, there is always one resource…
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Music Production Laptops: Choosing your Computer for Recording
The accelerated production of high-quality laptops, tablets and smartphones over recent years has made the mobile…
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Essential Home Studio Equipment: Build your Recording Studio
Not too long ago, high-quality recordings weren’t something musicians could just produce on their own.…
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Mac vs PC for Music Production: Which is best for your Studio?
The debate over which type of computer reigns supreme has raged on for decades now.…
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Employing Music YouTube Channels to Grow Your Audience
As of right now, YouTube is the second most popular website on the internet. To…
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Plugin Presets: How to Best Utilize them, and Why
No matter what DAW you use, chances are you love to try out new plugins…
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The Best Portable Recording Solutions
Being able to put down ideas and work on your music whenever you need to…
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