EQ and Compression for Better Low End – A simple process for getting a thumping track
EQ for kick drums
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Mastering Business Workflow – How we produce great masters for you every time
From booking your spot to delivering your masters – what’s involved? Have you ever wondered how a mastering studio runs? Want to know how what happens from when you book your project, to that exciting moment when you get your final sparkly polished up music back. Just like any business, mastering studios have a workflow.
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Getting great Kick Drums – Make Space in Your Bass Place
Part 1 – Composing and Producing for a Solid Bottom End Having punchy kick drums with a deep bass doesn’t start in the mixing process. It starts in the composition process, is enhanced with the sound design and production. Once that is all done, the mixing process will tidy it all up, and the mastering
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Client Portal to Make your life easy
Client Portal to streamline uploading your music, previewing and receiving your final masters Steam Mastering have implemented a simple client portal to take away the annoying reliance on file transfer or cloud sharing services. We will be launching this portal officially in mid August 2022, but if you’d like to help test it and have
Make powerful kick drums smash out with reference songs
Reference songs or reference tracks are mentioned frequently in how to’s and tips and tricks. They are a great tool for mixing and mastering in general but often get overlooked. Reference songs are simply songs that you use to compare your work to. A couple of weeks ago, I talked about hearing a track at
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Are your massive kick drums destroying your mix? – Is that even possible
Big Kick Drums are an important element to dance music styles, but can they be too big? Kick drums that are overcooked. I’m looking at you , Techno, House and EDM Producers. Actually, the majority of electronic producers that use drums make this mistake at some point. You’ve spent hours crafting the perfect kick drum.
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Client Portal Arriving Soon
Steam Mastering’s client portal is under construction To streamline our workflow and make life easier for our clients we are building a new client portal. This will allow artists and labels to upload files directly via our website and also to be able to listen to preview files in full resolution via a player in
Belgian Producer K.Deey hits early success with “I Am Techno”
Congratulations to K.Deey a deserving talent for making the beatport Top 100 hard techno releases Long time Belgian DJ, but relatively upcoming producer K.Deey hit number 6 on the Beatport Top 100 Hard Techno releases on the 13.02.2022. At writing of this post (17/02/2022), it is still at number 8. While I really enjoyed mastering
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STEAM Mastering now issuing ISRC Codes
ISRC stands for International Standard Recording Code. These are used to track the copyright of a recording and help you make sure you get paid for public playing or streaming of your music. You need to submit these wherever you upload your music and to your performing rights association where you register your works. A
Using Trim to Quickly Setup your Gain Structure
Have you ever found yourself constantly pulling down the main fader to stop your mix exceeding 0 dB?Setting up your gain structure before you start mixing will help make the mixing process easier. Many DAW\’s have a \’trim\’ pot on the mixer screen additional to the fader. You can use this to adjust the overall
