Are you still confused about how to use LUFS correctly while mixing?

Be honest..

Tbh, I’m not surprised. And I bet you are not alone.

For some reason the narrative on loudness measurement has developed a life of its own that is often quite far removed from how to use it in practice.

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Volume creep. It’s a real thing.

You know what I’m talking about.

It’s when you gradually turn up the volume throughout the session. Just a little bit more, and more, and more, one bit at a time.

Worst case: Until your ears are shot, your brain is fried, and you have no idea...

One of the often more surprising things about treating your room is this:

You go through all that effort of planning, building, moving, bleeding, sweating, crying and pushing on to find that at a first listen it sounds absolutely fantastic!

But the first mix still turns out like garbage.

And the...

When was the last time you tried a new compressor or EQ plugin?

Did it help to get your mixes to translate better?

It may absolutely have done, this isn’t a trick question.

What about the last time you got some new speakers or invested in some acoustic treatment?

Did that help with mix...

I think we’ve all heard the stories of people plastering their rooms with pyramid foam from Amazon. 

Maybe you were even one of the lucky ones to try such a masterpiece yourself..? (high five)

Then you’ll know how bad such a “dead” space can be.

It’s absolutely...

Do you sometimes wish you could stop the need for referencing your mixes on other systems altogether?

Maybe because whenever you listen to a mix in your car, or your ear buds, you dread the unpredictability of something having gone totally wrong?

Well, rest assured, you’re not the only...

Let me paraphrase an email I get about 3 times a day:

“Jescooooo the low end in my room is messed up, what do I need to do!?!”

“But I can’t move my desk, it’s way too heavy, and the room also doubles as my office, my wife’s hobby room and storage for my...

If you've been down the rabbit hole of treating your studio, then you know:

It's suuuuuper easy to get lost in the process.

Often enough it can lead to just giving up. 

Or maybe even worse: you end up obsessed about details that totally don't matter.

You endlessly turn in circles, trying...