Matty Harris

Matty Harris

3 Easy Vocal Mixing Tips

When mixing vocals, there are three main things you need to focus on: clarity, volume, and emotion. If you can get those three things right, your vocals will sound great! In this blog post, we’ll discuss each factor in detail…

McDSP APB16 Review

mcdsp apb 16

McDSP APB 16 Review: Analog Flavor With Digital Control The McDSP APB 16 is a powerful analog emulation plugin that brings high-quality analog compression and saturation to your digital productions. With versatile sound-shaping capabilities, intuitive controls, and useful workflow features,…

5 Things You Need To Build A Home Studio

The Professional Home Studio Setup Guide: Insights from a Billboard Engineer By Matty HarrisProfessional Mixing & Mastering Engineer | Apple Digital Masters Certified | Top 1% Globally for Mastering After working with major label artists like Kelly Clarkson, A$AP Rocky,…

Bettermaker EQ232D Plugin Review

The new Bettermaker EQ232D Plugin from Plugin Alliance is a remake of Bettermakers first hardware EQ. It has three sections. A LPF, two parametric EQ’s as well as a full Pultec style EQ section. I am a fan of Bettermaker’s…

Presonus Studio One 5 Review

Today I had the opportunity to check out the new PreSonus Studio One 5. The release comes with a host of new features, including the Show Page for live performance and Score View for written music via notion. Being a…

Mastering with Plugin Alliance Plugins

This is the first video of a series I will be doing Mastering the same song using different plugin brands. In this video, we will be Mastering with Plugin Alliance Plugins. Soon to come will be videos featuring Waves, Universal…