Mixing Synths: Early Reflections for Added Dimension

Adding some subtle dimension to your synthesized instruments with early reflections.


Synthesized instruments, unlike recorded sounds, have never existed in the acoustic world. This means that these synthesized sounds are 100% direct signal. To add some subtle dimension to these synthesized sounds, then, we can craft some “early reflections” on these tracks.

Here, I demonstrate this concept using ChromaVerb in Logic Pro X.

0:00 Introduction
0:55 Understanding Reverb and Early Reflections
2:18 Creating Early Reflections
3:18 Project Setup
4:26 Early Reflections Aux Track
5:15 ABing on the Synth Track
6:19 Why Separate these from the Main Reverb?
6:40 ABing on the Whole Arrangement

More Logic Pro X videos here.

Subaudio, DC Offset, and How they Affect Your Digital Sound

Subaudio are sounds below the range of human hearing–below about 20 Hz. While we can’t hear these sounds, they can make their way into our audio files in various ways and cause some issues for us. Understanding these issues can help us make decisions in tracking, mixing, and mastering to ensure clean bass sounds and the highest possible fidelity in our recordings.