Category: Mixing & Mastering

Adding distortion is a great way to add warmth and presence to your music and give your tracks a more commercial and professional sound. For example, when you are trying to brighten a bass or synth sound, so it pulls through your mix, many producers reach for EQ. However, EQ might not be enough for…

One of the best saturation plugins that I recently learned about that you can use to beef up your sound is the Soundtoys Decapitator. Producers can use saturation in the sound design phase or the mixing phase. When mixing, I like to put this first in my chain. When I first started, I didn’t use…