
“As a songwriter/producer I relied heavily on engineers for recording and mixing if I wanted to get my tracks sounding like masters. I always wanted to do more myself but struggled to learn anything watching an engineer zip around Logic or Pro Tools at 1000 mph! Then I found Garnish School of Sound and did their Mixing and Mastering course. It was exactly what I needed, we covered everything I was unsure of in the past from using buses properly, EQ, audio compression and using specialist mastering plugins. Everything was explained and demonstrated in a way I understood. I never thought i'd ever be able get such great sounding tracks doing everything myself.”
Ben Cullum
A full guide to mastering - what it is, how multi-band compressors work on the master buss, choosing crossover points and prepping tracks.
Read →Mastering is a vital part of the recording process, so much so that a substantial amount of ‘mystery’ is associated with it. We’ve all heard stories of…
Read →A Vocoder – name derived from voice coder, formerly also called Voder – is a speech analyser and synthesizer.
Read →Comping, tone control, mic modelling, de-popping, pitch correction, compression, reverb and delay - the full vocal chain, start to finish.
Read →Creative gating and side-chaining for electronic music - gated reverbs, rhythmic gating, cleaner effects and upward compression.
Read →Phasing was the next purely electronic effect after the wah- wah and fuzz box, and it originally set out to emulate tape phasing. In the phaser, a signal…
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