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Glen Stephan - The SouthSIDE of the Tracks Jon O'Neil - The Eternal Hobbyist
EnginEARing Part 7: – The Frequency Chart II – Frequency and Arrangement
In EnginEARing Part 6 we began our look at how the frequency chart can help us develop our listening skill by helping us to hear and understand certain frequency-based sonic characteristics and descriptions. Now we'll look at how that chart provides a significant, if somewhat indirect, clue as to the importance of musical arrangement and how directing our ear’s attention to that aspect of our music can often provide a key reason why some mixes work and sound better than others.

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The Business of Music, Part 2: Death and Taxes
Cheery title eh?  Good news is the death part; I'm not talking about your death, but rather the death of your clients.  Well, the injury of your clients.  And you getting sued, which might feel like death!  Then we'll look at some common misconceptions about taxation.

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John Scrip - Massive Missives Tom Volpicelli - In The House
No articles available for this author. Stupid DAW Tricks Part I : Frequency-based Dynamic Control
We’re all familiar with functions like de-essing and multi-band compression. It’s easy, slap on a plug-in, fiddle around a bit and you’re done. There are times however when some issues are not easily controlled through a single setting and the “remedy” starts getting in the way.  Wouldn’t it be nice if we could add a little bit of “intelligence” to make up for these difficulties?

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Jay Walsh - The Far View Ben Anderson - Pro Tools BBQ
Gain Staging
How stuff is supposed to work together part 1

In the days of old, when the earth was still cooling, it was a simpler time.  A time when most audio devices had meters and there were standard operating levels.  Things were less confusing.  Here is how it worked:

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