The removal of mix-ruining resonance in music production has long been a careful balancing act, best left to those (often expensive) ears who can discern which elements of your track are negatively impacting each other. Developing the right kind of mixing finesse — or entrusting the job to an expert — is, thankfully, no longer necessary for these kinds of jobs. As we sit here, smug in space year 2022, we can rely on the super-fast resonance detection of algorithms, such as the one in Mastering the Mix’s latest plugin, Reso.
While previous plugins from MTM have included the likes of the frequency-tweak suggesting Mix room and track-comparison suite Reference, both serving as superb time accelerators in the mastering stage, Reso is handy from the get-go, particularly as mixes start to build out and track numbers start reaching into double figures. You may think that smoothening out conflicting track elements is just one of the core aspects to mixing, but ‘resonance’ is a different thing to just competing for space within a stereo image. It’s more akin to a build-up of energy at a certain point on the frequency spectrum, and while taming the transients of certain instruments with an EQ or compressor may lessen its effect, you might be surprised at how much harm quieter instruments or other elements are causing, too.
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