Music Glossary: clean

Create instrumentals, TV mixes, clean versions, and performance masters. more

Setting levels at each stage to maximize headroom and minimize noise/distortion. more

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Target consistent channel headroom (e.g., peaks around -10 dBFS) into buses & plugins. more

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Coordinate breath and fold closure for clean onset; avoid hard glottal or airy starts. more

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Planning wireless frequencies to avoid intermodulation and interference; scanning and assigning clean groups. more

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Level difference between desired signal and noise floor, typically in dB. more

More in the Audio Theory and Acoustics category...

Cut problems before boosting; notch resonances and boxiness. more

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