Article Type: Metering

I can usually tell how a mix was prepped by watching someone use an analyzer. If they stare at the curve, chase every wobble, and nudge until the line is flat, the result almost always sounds stiff. Ten minutes with a spectrum analyzer is plenty, but only if you point it at the right questions. […]

Two hours is where a set stops being a playlist and starts being a piece of programming. And the thing that breaks it, almost every time, is not a bad track. It is a good track that arrives four or five dB hotter than the one before it and makes the whole room flinch. I […]