Introduction to Har-Bal Synthetic Space, an AU and VST reverb plugin
For the last 6 months or more I have diligently been working away at developing a new class of room reverberation plugin called Har-Bal...
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A Justification for Har-Bal : My Re-Mastering of Steve Wilson’s “Hand Cannot Erase”
Anyone who is familiar with the large body of work that Steven Wilson has created, either on his own or with collaborators, will be awa...
Loudspeaker Crossover MkII
As much as I was pleased with my original reference monitor design they suffered from a problem of my own making. Most notably, they ha...
Evaluating Combined Room / Monitor Performance
If you are serious about recording music, mastering music or simply listening to music (the later is mostly my domain), the most import...
Mastering the track “Топлесс – Анатомия души”
In this video I master the track Топлесс - Анатомия души by Yury Kisel which he kindly submitted to us. This track is a good example of...
Mastering the track “Everest”
In this video I master the track Everest by Vitaliy Borysyuk which he kindly submitted to us. If you have a track you would like help i...
Why Too Much Limiting is a Bad Thing
It is all too common for material these days to be mastered at high average levels of anywhere between -13dB to -9dB relative to full s...
Removing Inter-Sample Overs from the Har-Bal Limiter
Inter-sample overs is something of a mis-understood issue that need not be an issue but it depends upon how format conversion interface...
A Late Christmas
Leading up to Christmas last year my eldest daughter was putting together her wish list and asking me if I could get her a bluetooth sp...
Where should I do most of my processing in Har-Bal 3.0
Generally speaking, you should confine most of your processing to the mid view. In this view the filter changes you make are applied to...