10 years back
Our monthly shake-of-thehead at our younger selves’ news choices…
If we had a pound for every time we’d run a feature on mastering… we probably still wouldn’t have enough for a decent set of mastering plugins. 173 (January 2012) saw us showing you, once again, how to “give your mixes a professional, polished sound,” with some specific advice for applying a “high-gloss” finish to tracks in several different genres.
Going back to the beginning of the production process, a Facebook poll
“Our ‘playing the field feature’ wasn’t a guide to using Tinder”
‘revealed’ that most of our readers liked to start a track with the drums (no surprise there) and we spread a wild rumour that Apple might be about to ditch plugin support in Logic and GarageBand (thankfully, this turned out to be untrue).
Elsewhere, our ‘playing the field feature’ wasn’t a guide to using Tinder – it hadn’t even been invented – but a call to get out of your studio and start making some recordings in the real world. Oh, and we found Dimitry Sches’ superb new soft synth to be far more than the mere ‘Diversion’ that its name suggested – in fact, we couldn’t stop using it.