While music production undergoes several steps, mixing and mastering music are the two essential processes that ensure every track sounds professional. Mixing is the technique of adjusting and ...

Iconic movie sound effects, your favorite songs, and ambient background noises are created through the art of audio mixing. From lo-fi to hi-fi and everything in between, here’s the lowdown on the ...

The Audiophiliac interviews mastering engineer Dave McNair about who should get most of the credit for great sounding recordings, and his answer may surprise you. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

Mastering engineer Dave McNair unravels some of the mysteries of how he makes music sound good over iTunes and MP3s played over $20 computer speakers. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg ...

Other sound programs in other places offer training in a fraction of the discipline. A minor in Sound provides a strong foundation in many areas: tools, techniques, theory; the full spectrum of audio ...

First, the robots came for our factory jobs, then for our fast-food jobs. Now, they’re aiming their laser-guided sights at… music-recording engineers? On Thursday, the audio-processing company Landr ...

Everyone who looks at the credits on a CD will have seen a line for "mastering." But like the "best boy" and "gaffer" credits at the end of a film, few people know what it really means. Oddly enough, ...

Overview: Studio headphones are essential for accurate mixing, mastering, and critical listening, offering neutral sound ...

From dialogue to music, the sounds you hear in movies are multilayered. More often than not, these sounds are brought together in postproduction to create an immersive aural experience that requires a ...

Review: iZotope's Ozone is now on version 9. Erik Vlietinck takes it for a test run to see if the company is still working its Voodoo magic! Ozone 9 is all about improving a mix to the point of ...