Many people ask the question what is the difference between mixing and mastering and I shall attempt to answer that today! Once a song is...

By now you will realise I have been around a while, and was of the first generation that had to struggle with making computers work in the studio at ALL, fiddling with IRQ jumpers, bios settings and garbage like that to achieve what literally anything... including what even your phone can do - with digital audio now. I have lived through every iteration of digital audio so far and struggled, like every other professional engineer to make it sound optimum at every step. I have

As ever with any instrument, the single biggest thing helpful in getting a good bass sound is the player. But what past that?

This may be hard to believe but sometimes recording engineers and producers from back in the “good old days” don’t have the best...

After some thinking, I realised that a good chunk of my mixing clients are self-recording, and I usually focus on articles that are...

Love to or hate it, Spotify is one of the big players in your world right now covering something like 36% of global streaming - and...

As a mixing engineer that works most of the time online these days, I often get the following message: "Hey bro, how much is a mixmaster?" and damn, it stresses me out when people offer mixing AND mastering by default. I know these days it's often driven by monetary reasons, or because people don't even think about it, but it’s one of the worst things you can do for your music, and I have an instant distrust of anyone who does this because it does not serve the art. Here's my

In this guide, we cover: The difference between mechanical and performance royalties. Why digital distributors (like DistroKid) don't collect all your money. How to register with a PRO (BMI or PRS) to get paid for leased beats. The idea of leasing music tracks, or "beats" as they get called nowadays is a pretty new concept, and the business hasn’t brought in new ways to handle that idea smoothly. A lot of the things in place in the music business are old, and struggle to dea

Music Copyright for Artists: Legal Realities vs. Producer Myths I remember being in my first band, aged about 17 and super excited as the owner of a label had said he’d be interested in us putting out a record with him. We had a meeting, in which the guy came up with a brilliant line: “I may be a scumbag, but it’s MR Bag to you!” Now, we may have been young and dumb but that gem of a line may have had some influence on us as kids immediately thinking we should probably copyri

As a mixer that gets all kinds of recordings if you asked me the single thing that is the biggest difference in home and pro studio...

If you had a limited budget which should you choose: mixing OR mastering?

Don't tell your singer or rapper this or child screaming into an unplugged mic this - but the vocal IS the most important part of the track

So, let's imagine I finished mixing your record here at Deluxe Mixing , naturally it sounds amazing and you are super excited to get it...