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The loudness wars refers to a trend of artists increasing the volume of their songs in order to stand out on radio and streaming services. This was done through aggressive dynamic range compression, limiting, etc. The Loudness wars impacted the quality of audios as heavily compressing tracks meant that the difference between the soft and…

Equalisation is the adjusting of specific frequencies to achieve a balanced mix. EQ began in the Telephone and radio broadcasting industry where EQ-like filters were used to balance frequencies and improve clarity. EQ in this era was mainly used for technical correction and simple adjusting such as removing hums unlike in today’s mixes. With the…

Stereo sound was first explored in 1931 by Alan Blumlein, a british engineer, who came up with the idea to use two microphones to recreate the sense of spatial depth. Blumlein worked for film and is often established as the ‘Father of Stereo’. It took sometime before anymore developments were made in the 1950s where…

Imaging is when our minds imagine sound to be in a place it is physically not. This can be applied by our minds imagining sound between speakers whereas the sound is moving through the move. It is how our minds perceive and fill in the gaps of sound. This process of visual representing i believe…

Reference Mixing is a method used by producers in order to keep the track that they’re mixing fresh and on a forward path. Mixing a track with no breaks can lead our ears to become deaf to certain things we otherwise should’ve heard at first listen. So in order to ‘freshen’ the mix using a…