Ask any audio engineer in the business and they will tell you that a compressor is the holy grail of audio engineering. It is the pièce de résistance.

Adding effects into a mix, especially reverb, is without question my favorite part of the mixing stage.

The process of making a hit song is not complete without the final portion of the engineering process, the mastering. Mastering is simply enhancing your mix.

Every recording artist and engineer out there at one point or another has been through the harrowing, god-awful struggle of getting their vocals to sound professional.