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Ep 38 - Visual Mixing Tools in 2026: Smart Shortcut or Dangerous Crutch?
Studio Stuff Podcast #38 | Mixing With Your Eyes: Visual Tools, Meters, and the Mix Bus Limiter Debate
Can you actually mix with your eyes? Should you? We're diving into one of those conversations that sounds like it...
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Ep 37 - Third-Party Plugins vs Tim Tams | Which Actually Improves Your Mix?
Studio Stuff Podcast #37 | Third-Party Plugins vs Tim Tams: Which Actually Improves Your Mix?
Do you really need third-party plugins to make a professional mix… or are stock plugins already doing more than enough?
In...
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Ep 36 - Headphones vs Speakers: What We Trust for Better Mix Decisions
Studio Stuff Podcast #36 | Headphones vs Speakers: What We Trust for Better Mix Decisions
Is mixing on headphones actually reliable? Are speakers still the gold standard? In this episode, we get into the real-world...
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Ep 35 - The REAL Reason Vintage Type Plugins Feel “Better”
Vintage gear is everywhere again… except most of it isn’t gear anymore. It’s emulations. It’s GUIs. It’s “1176” written on a screen with knobs that make our brains feel safe. In this episode, we dig into why producers...
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Ep 34 - Home Studio vs Pro Studio in 2026: Room, Gear, or Engineer?
Home studios have never been more powerful. Cheap gear is better than ever, plugins are ridiculous, and you can make real records on a laptop. But commercial studios still have something you can’t always fake: space,...
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Ep 33 - Gain Staging, Buses, and Headroom: The Boring Stuff That Makes Mixes Feel Pro
You know that moment where your mix feels great… until you look at the master bus and it’s basically a nuclear explosion? Yeah. This episode is all about avoiding that trap while you’re mixing—so mastering doesn’t...
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Ep 32 - Back Then vs Now: Did We Lose “Pro” Recordings?
Studio Stuff Podcast | Back Then vs Now: Did We Lose “Pro” Recordings?
Everyone loves the idea that “back in the day” recordings were more professional. Big studios, serious engineers, real consoles, musicians who...
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Ep31 - Do Mixing Consoles Still Matter in 2026?
We started this episode the way all professional audio conversations begin… by accidentally starting a mini civil war at breakfast over hash browns. Then we pivot into two really solid listener questions: one about...
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Ep30 - AI in the Studio: What’s Useful, What’s Weird, What’s Coming
AI is no longer a “someday” conversation. It’s already baked into tools we use, workflows we rely on, and decisions we’re making in the home studio, whether we call it AI or not.
In this episode, we break the whole...
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Ep 29 - Fix, Control, Enhance: The Vocal Framework Your Mix Is Missing
Alright… let’s talk about the question we hear constantly: “How many plugins do you use on a vocal chain?” Because the real answer isn’t a number. It’s a mindset.
In this episode, we zoom out and talk about the...
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Ep 28 - Before You Buy Another Plugin, Ask This One Question
We started this episode sipping tea and joking around… and somehow ended up in a full-on therapy session about plugins.
A listener comment kicked it off: “Sometimes it feels like I spend more time buying and setting...
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Ep 27 - The 1 Reverb Rule That Changes the Whole Mix
What happens when 17 mixers take the exact same piano-and-vocal song… and all make different reverb choices? In this episode, we break down a recent Mixdown Coaching Community mix challenge where one vocal reverb...
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