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Ep 50 - The Mix Sounded Worse Loud… Here’s Why!
Studio Stuff Podcast | The Mix Sounded Worse Loud… Here’s Why!
Your mix sounds great at a normal listening level. Then you turn it up—and suddenly the reverb feels too loud, the cymbals sound harsh, and the low end...
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Ep 49 - Serve The Song: Cutting Parts Without Crushing Egos
Ep 49 - Serve The Song: Cutting Parts Without Crushing Egos
Two listener questions, two real studio problems this week. First up, what happens when a mix has too many great ideas competing for the same space, and how...
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Ep 48 - The Great Preamp War: Why Both Sides of This Viral Video Drama Are Actually Right
The Great Preamp War: Why Both Sides of This Viral Video Drama Are Actually Right
So a video dropped last week and the whole audio world lost its mind. You know the one. A long, seriously impressive comparison of...
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Ep 46 - Why Your Limiter Hates Your Drums (And How We Fix It Upstream)
Your drums sound massive on their own, then they hit the mix bus and the limiter starts fighting back. In this episode we tackle a great listener question about keeping kick and snare transients under control so they...
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Ep 47 - Staying Sharp in the Studio: Sleep, Food, and the Truth About Being Productive
Studio Stuff Podcast #47 | Staying Sharp in the Studio: Sleep, Food, Panning, and Everything In Between
It started with Chris being half asleep on a phone call. And somehow that turned into one of our more useful...
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Ep 45 - Your Smartphone Knows Your Mix Has a Problem, Do You?
Studio Stuff Podcast #45 | Your Phone Knows Your Mix Has a Problem. Do You?
We get into three listener questions this episode, and at least one of them might change how you check your mixes going forward.
The first...
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Ep 44 - Stop Choosing Mics Based on Price (Do This Instead)
Studio Stuff Podcast #44 | Mic Shootouts, Genre Comfort Zones, and the Music We Love Mixing
You've got two mics, one singer, and a session to run. Which one do you reach for?
In this episode, we dig into that exact...
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Ep 43 - The Da Vinci Problem: Knowing When to Let Go of Your Mix
Studio Stuff Podcast #43 The Da Vinci Problem: Knowing When to Let Go of Your Mix
You've been in the mix for hours. It sounds pretty good. You think it sounds pretty good. But you keep going back in, tweaking,...
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Ep 42 - Mixing, Mastering, and the Mindset That Separates Them
Studio Stuff Podcast #42 | Mixing, Mastering, and the Mindset That Separates Them
You finish the mix, you're happy with it, you slap Ozone on the master bus... and now what? Do you keep tweaking? Do you bounce and...
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Ep 41 - NS-10 Translation in 2026: Emotion, Mixing, and What Actually Works
Studio Stuff Podcast #41 | NS10 Translation in 2026: Emotion, Mixing, and What Actually Works
What does emotion in music actually mean? And does your mix have to make someone cry to count as art? We got a comment on...
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Ep 40 - The Omelet Crisis and How Many Reverbs You Actually Need
Studio Stuff Podcast #40 | The Omelet Crisis and How Many Reverbs You Actually Need
Alright, the steak omelets are gone and the vibes are… fragile. But despite the breakfast tragedy, we’re digging into a topic that...
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Ep 39 - The Music AI Can't Touch - And It's Going Viral
Studio Stuff Podcast #39 | The Band That Broke the Internet (And What It Means for You)
We lost the Denny's steak omelet. But we found hope for music.
There's a band from Quebec called Angine de Poitrine, that stopped...
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