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The Hard Truth: There Is No Magic Bullet

Tuesday, 07 February 2012 Written by puremix

I have to be straight with you guys. If you are hoping to take your recordings and mixes to the next level, don’t look for that one “magic bullet” of a technique, tip, or piece of gear to take you there. It’s just not going to happen.

Loudness Monitoring Tip

Saturday, 15 October 2011 Written by Fab

It’s a good idea to use an SPL meter to check your monitoring levels. Most of us listen too loud, both for accuracy reasons and for health reasons. Spend $30 on a Radio Shack SPL meter (the analogue one, not the digital one) and set it for 80/C weighted/Slow (you’ll understand when you get it). Place the device near you pointing at the speakers, maybe on the other side of your keyboard opposite your mouse (you are using a computer right?). Then play some music at the level you usually play it at. The needle should be dancing between 0 and +6. If you peg the needle you’re killing yourself and probably are deliver- ing bass light mixes. If the needle is not moving you’re either using a dead battery or you are one exceptional human being with phenomenal self control on listening levels (and you are probably delivering bass heavy mixes too).

PROTOOLS IS NOW $600. Boom.

Monday, 08 November 2010 Written by Fab

It'll run with ANY hardware, so that means that YES, you can edit a full session taken from your HD rig on your laptop using the built in headphone outputs. Science fiction.

Yes, it has delay compensation.

Waka Waka or The World Cup Song

Friday, 11 June 2010 Written by Fab

There is stuff flying around the internet about this and I get a lot of emails asking what the real story is, so here you go.

I was mixing Freshlyground's new record at FLUX in NYC in February after having produced and tracked it in Cape Town in January. We had submitted a song to FIFA for the World Cup anthem called 'Africans' (It was called many things that day, starting with 'Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah'), which we had recorded/mixed/mastered in one day in the middle of the tracking sessions in Cape Town, and had heard nothing of about it since.