Music Calculator

The mix is done, and it sounds right in your room. Bass is weighted, vocals is there, and dynamics seem alive. Send it to the … Read more

Balance dynamics and frequencys for hours until it sounds good to you. Export the file as a WAV file. Check the peak levels. The peaks … Read more

Anyone who’s mixed anything knows what I’m talking about: That moment in the studio where your mix sounds HUGE and then you put it out … Read more

There’s a reason there are loudness standards: When changing from channel to channel, you don’t want to be jarred by a change of volume level. … Read more

Even with a solid performance, most recording fail on the very first take because the gain structure were incorrect. Sure you have a pristine interface … Read more

The other way to have a heart attack is having everything look okay on the digital wave form but seeing it all distorted on the … Read more

This might be confusing as you hear something sounding right on screen and wrong when its printed. More often than not, this isn’t because of … Read more

When you download a song, do you ever notice that tin-can sound? No, it’s not your headphones; that’s the limitation of the bitrate. Using aggressive … Read more

It’s easy to know what I mean: you’re capturing a quiet source somewhere and the room refuse to stay silent. You get it to record; … Read more

It would be simple if you could just generate some sound and see how long it takes until you hear an echo of yourself. That’s … Read more

A linear sweep move forward by a constant number of hertz per second. On paper, this seems perfectly reasonable. From zero to ten seconds, if … Read more

When this occurs, you pressed record too early in the recording or did not let the room finish fading before stopping the recording. How long … Read more

When you look at a spectrum analyzer, you’ll see peaks of data, but perhaps not know they’re limited by the number of samples provided to … Read more

There is a nice smooth transfer function trace on your screen. Phase are handled and magnitude response is flat. You look at the EQ moves … Read more

What is this? A frequency analyzer shows you a peak rising then falling like a mountain range. Where’s the exact location of the bass note … Read more