VVV quick, vvv important point
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on September 1, 2021
Hey all, absolutely busier than than busiest thing you can think of. Not least cos I’m getting married next week. But in the midst of working as much as humanly possible, this occurred to me; Mixing into a fixed / certain master buss chain does NOT help make your mixes more consistent. In fact it […]
Check Your Mix, Don’t Wreck Your Mix Pt. 2: The Wreckoning
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on May 13, 2021
This post is a follow up / addendum to a post from 2018 (WTF?!). If you haven’t, I’d suggest reading that first. https://bobmaccsblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/mix-buss-compression-limiting-check-your-mix-dont-wreck-your-mix/ I thought I’d continue from that article with a similar terrible title. So what?! Since posting that article I’ve shared it with a few producers/customers, with the intention of helping them out. […]
Interview with Matt Davis
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on May 3, 2021
Matt Davis falls into a very specific category for me. I’ve never met him, and never heard any of his work, but I have the highest possible respect for him. Some people just know WTF is what, and Matt knows WTF is what. That we share a love of picking up heavy objects would also […]
Chasing LUFS
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on April 25, 2021
Written in response to a fairly standard ‘the numbers say X, can you make it louder?’ email. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and it finally burst out. I didn’t direct this at the customer though, poor fella would have wondered wtf was going on… Firstly, in my experience RMS is […]
Quick Bettermaker Mastering Compressor review
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on April 7, 2021
Typed this on Gear….. space, thought I might as well bung it here. Lots happening here peeps, sorry for silence. More stuff soon, honest. ********* Ok, I wanted to write more about this comp but here we go. I’ve had it for about 6 months I think. It’s growing on me. The sound: In BM […]
GOLY Dynamic shelving equaliser review
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on February 24, 2021
Hey hey everybody 🙂 This review will start with the now-standard apology to the manufacturer, for the lengthy delay in writing this review. I’ll follow that with the same reason I’ve given before: I’ve been too busy using the thing to write about it. So, I’m sorry Gustav, but it’s your own fault. I’ll follow […]
Bob Olhsson quote
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on December 4, 2020
Just saw this courtesy of the Gearslutz mastering forum. He puts it much better than I ever have. And you can’t argue with Bob O, I don’t care who you are. ‘Mastering is creatively frustrating. We can work our “miracles” but they’ll never sound as good as getting the basic integrity of the mix right […]
Mix headroom for the 86 billionth time
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on November 11, 2020
Response on a friend’s Facebook page, essentially asking “how much headroom is good for dance music?”. Short answer – it doesn’t matter. Just stay under 0dBFS and don’t worry about it. Export at 24-bit, or at 32-bit floating point. I can explain the difference if you need but it doesn’t really matter if you’re under […]
Limiting / clipping things in the mix
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on November 2, 2020
“… Do you think it’s degrading my sound quality to be limiting my groups in the mix down process? To be honest, I never use compressors, only limiters if I’m trying to control sharp peaks or potentially smash a snare or clean sound. I just feel like there’s something I’m doing wrong, or some technique […]
51dB Audio PEQEX review
Posted by bobmaccsblog in General on October 20, 2020
I want to start this review with an apology. I’d like to apologise to Peter for it taking so very long to get this thing written. I could blame Coronavirus, lockdown and all that stuff. But the fact is I’ve been so busy using this thing that time has got away from me. So Peter, […]
