HPFing the sides with generic monomakers is total bollocks: quick demonstration experiment

I’ve banged on enough about why the generic low frequency monomaker plugin on your master buss is, frankly, a shit idea. Yes that includes your beloved Ableton thing. Apparently it’s still happening all the time COZ YEW GOTTA MONO DEM LOWZ. Do this and be enlightened. Or maybe just more perplexed at why audio is […]

‘How do you know when the bass is right?’

[I’ve been snoozing this one in my email since (apparently) November. It took me two minutes to post this. Idiot. Anyway…..] “My question is, how do you know when when you’ve got bass sounding ‘right’ or ‘correct’ if that makes any sense?!“ I’ve thought about this for a good while and it absolutely depends. On…. well, […]

Happy 2024 everyone :)

Just sitting down to get back into things for this year, and thought I’d put a note on here to say I’m still alive…. I’ll try to post more stuff on here this year, but when things get hectic it seems to slip down my priority list. Plus I’ve been doing more voice messages to […]

Review – GOLY CrosscompressionEQ

It’s high time I wrote a review of the GOLY CrosscompressionEQ. I’d like to publicly apologise to Gustav for the time it’s taken to do this, but ultimately, it’s his fault – I’ve been too busy using the thing.  Before going any further, the standard disclaimer / transparency statement. I don’t have a commercial relationship […]

WTF is dither all about?

Wotcher all. Sorry being quiet on here but I’m working the ol’ spuds off. Just wrote this on the quick and thought I’d share it. As an old friend of mine used to say, ‘the only question I ask about dither is, ‘is it on?”. But it comes up all the time so check it […]

Dealing with old stereo breaks

[This started as a Facebook post responding to someone wondering about their old break sounding good in stereo but crap in mono. Various suggestions were made, including ‘turn the M up’ and ‘delay one channel because Haas’. Because this comes up a lot, and because I’m very possibly still drunk, I wrote some stuff and […]

VVV quick, vvv important point

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

This post is a follow up / addendum to a post from 2018 (WTF?!). If you haven’t, I’d suggest reading that first. Mix Buss Compression / Limiting – check your mix, don’t 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 […]

Interview with Matt Davis

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

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 […]