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The discount runs until November 2026. That is not a typo and it is not a countdown timer trick; the coupon simply sits there for a very long time, which…
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Mapping a Twelve Hour Rotation: How to Keep Loudness Steady Overnight
The problem with overnight rotation isn’t any single track. It’s the drift. A show that opens at 18:00 and closes at 06:00…
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Picking a Limiter That Won’t Wreck a Whole Set: Three Tested on Long Playback
Two hours is a different animal from three minutes. A master that sounds open and punchy on a single track can turn…
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Loudness Targets for Streaming Radio, Explained Plainly
Most of the loudness confusion I see from people prepping tracks for radio comes from treating one number as gospel. There is…
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Why a Mix Falls Apart on Small Speakers, and How to Fix It
You finish a mix, it sounds huge in the studio, you bounce it, you play it on a laptop, and it turns…
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Reading a Spectrum Analyzer When You Only Have Ten Minutes
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…
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How to Keep Levels Consistent Across a Two-Hour Mix
Two hours is where a set stops being a playlist and starts being a piece of programming. And the thing that breaks…
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Building a Set That Holds a Listener Past the Third Track
Most sets die around the third track. Not the first, not the second. The opener gets attention for free, the follow-up rides…
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Prepping Tracks for an Automated Station: A Practical Checklist
Most of the work that decides whether a track survives an automated station happens before anyone touches a limiter. I ran a station for years, and the failures that actually…
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