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5 POWERFUL Tips to Optimize Your Mix
Learn 5 Strategies I use on every single mix!
No tech talk here. This small but mighty e-book isn’t about secret EQ frequencies, or how to side-chain your mix buss to your toaster oven. Nah. These are powerful concepts and mixing philosophies I return to time and again, which keep me focused, inspired, and deeply rooted in the music.
Newsletter & Blog
🔊 FREE Metering Plugin I Actually Use (No Joke)
Meter nerds, this one’s for you. A genuinely useful free metering plugin I use all the time for loudness and mix checks.
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REALmix Live: Mixing “Veronica” (Notre Dame Folk Choir feat. Emma Frank)
December 14, 2025 -
Home Studio Q&A Replay: Apollo Routing, Headroom & Release Strategy
November 22, 2025 -
Come hang? Free mixing/recording Q&A this Friday 👀
November 19, 2025 -
✅ Proof your home studio is good enough
May 30, 2025
Forums & Discussion
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Kirk Reedstrom started the discussion Free Waves Curves Resolve Plugin in the forum Plugins, Virtual Instruments, Samples 21 minutes ago
Free Waves Curves Resolve Plugin
Hi all,
Waves has their new Curves Resolve plugin free for the next 48 hours.
Here’s the description:
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Dana Nielsen replied to the discussion Mastering process question in the forum Mixing a week ago
Reply to Mastering process question
Hahaha – Obi-Wan quote for the win. We defs don’t want to lose you to Imperial entaglements!
Huh, that is bizarre…
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Paul Tucci replied to the discussion Mastering process question in the forum Mixing a week ago
Reply to Mastering process question
Dana,
Thank you for the late night ramble. Keen observations as we have come to expect here.
I had in fact, thrown…
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Dana Nielsen replied to the discussion Mastering process question in the forum Mixing a week ago
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Jesse Lewis replied to the discussion Mastering process question in the forum Mixing a week ago
