Mixing Music: 7 Stages Of A Great Sounding Mix

Singer-songwriter, Music Producer, and Artist Currently living outside of Austin, Texas. Jeremy Latimer is this month's SoundGym Hero!

We take a deep dive into all things compression-related; examining everything from the fundamentals through to some incredibly useful advanced techniques.

This month in our classic tracks section, we investigate David Bowie's 'Heroes'.

The Komplete Start bundle is obviously designed to give users a taste of what Native Instruments plug-ins can do, in the hope that they will later upgrade to full versions of instruments such as Kontakt and Massive, and as suggested, it's all available for free.

The chorus effect sometimes gets a bad rap; people associate it with over-indulgent '80s guitar sounds and tend to steer well clear. Use it subtly, however, and it can be a surprisingly versatile mix tool.

Music Producer, Songwriter with an incredible tolerance to spicy foods, Currently from Los Angeles, CA, Dylan Galvin is this month's SoundGym Hero!

This month we take a look at Tricky`s `Black Steel` – a radical re-imagining of Public Enemy`s `Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos`.

This free vst plug-in is essentially an exciter, meaning it uses subtle distortion to enhance your audio in various ways.

Tokyo Dawn Records are offering their excellent NOVA plug-in for free. On first glance it might not be obvious how deep the functionality of NOVA goes, but there is a lot packed in here.