Tutorial: How To Add Low End to Your Mix (Comparing Waves Audio and Logic Pro Plugins)

In this tutorial, we show how you can beef up the low-end of your mix whilst mastering a track in Logic Pro, by comparing 4 stand-out plugins. During the video, Point Blank’s lecturer Jarred Hearman starts by adding Logic’s Vintage Console EQ to the master channel and boosting some of the lower frequencies until he […]

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How to Add Air to Your Mix and Make Your Track Sparkle

For this tutorial, we show how you can add “air” to your track during the mastering process, to give the final result a super clean and sparkly sound. Adding air to your mix is the method of boosting high frequencies around the 15-20K Hz range and can be achieved by utilising EQ. It’s a subtle […]

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Learn to Think Outside the Box Whilst Mixing Inside the Box in Our Waves Audio Masterclass

For this edition of Friday Forum Live, we were joined by Michael Adams, Waves Audio’s Director of Training and Development, and JC Concato, an industry professional mix engineer and Point Blank’s creative director, to showcase some live “in the box” mixing techniques using their state-of-the-art plugins. Michael Adams worked for Waves Audio as a Junior Product Specialist before working his […]

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Masterclass: Waves Audio Mixing Tips with Emre Ramazanoglu

To celebrate our partnership with the world-leading plugin specialists, Waves Audio, we have created a series of masterclasses focussing on how to finely tune your tracks with their state-of-the-art plugins. Following this recent partnership, Point Blank students are entitled to an exclusive 35% discount on Waves Audio plugins. Find out more about our student discounts here and enrol […]

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7 Biggest January Sales for Producers and DJs

With the Christmas and New Year festivities over and resolutions for 2021 on the horizon, we’ve decided to provide a DJ/producer pick-me-up by sharing some of the best January and winter deals for musicians. Below, find a list of helpful tools which are bound to enhance your creativity, techniques, workflow and more – even if […]

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Masterclass: Creative Processing with Waves Audio

To celebrate our partnership with the world-leading plugin specialists, Waves Audio, we have created a series of masterclasses focussing on how to finely tune your tracks with their state-of-the-art plugins. Following this recent partnership, Point Blank students are entitled to an exclusive 35% discount on Waves Audio plugins. Find out more about our student discounts here and enrol on […]

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First Look: Waves Audio StudioRack w/ Jan Kybert

The world-leading audio plugin manufacturers Waves Audio have just unleashed their brand new game-changer, StudioRack. StudioRack was designed with experimentation in mind. The new free plugin from Waves Audio allows you to create your own personalised sounds and effects by chaining up to 8 different plugins together in a single place. This is just the tip of the iceberg, however, […]

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Masterclass: Learn How to Mix Live Elements w/ Point Blank and Waves Audio

To celebrate our partnership with the world-leading plugin specialists, Waves Audio, we have created a series of masterclasses focussing on how to finely tune your tracks with their state-of-the-art plugins. Following this recent partnership, Point Blank students are entitled to an exclusive 35% discount on Waves Audio plugins. Find out more about our student discounts here and […]

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Learn Live Sound Engineering w/ Point Blank and the World-Leading Waves Audio

Last year we partnered with the world-leading plugin specialists, Waves Audio, to incorporate their state-of-the-art studio plugins into the way we teach music education. Our Live Sound Engineering course is one of our most popular 3-month courses and sees our students go from the studio to the stage and get stuck into learning practical real-world skills using […]

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6 Best Autotune Plugins to Enhance Your Vocals

Over the last decade, autotune has evolved from a subtlety producers and engineers use to alter vocals and correct out-of-tune notes to a full-blown identity for certain musicians. Now, predominantly used in the realms of trap and left-field pop music, fans will even be able to identify an artist just by the way their distinct […]

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