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IDIO ARTIST SPOTLIGHT ✨

Showing love to incredibly talented and her latest single “Broken Hallelujah”. 🎶

Haitian-Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and voice artist, Ashleïca blends R&B, neo-soul, and jazz with heartfelt and inspirational storytelling.

Stream Broken Hallelujah now on all platforms. 🤍✨

One of the biggest reasons your mixes don’t translate outside your studio has nothing to do with your plugins, EQ choices, or mastering chain.

It’s your room.

If your room is exaggerating or hiding certain frequencies, you’re making mix decisions based on inaccurate information. The result? A mix that sounds great in your studio but falls apart in the car, on headphones, or on other speakers.

Before spending thousands on more gear, take a look at your acoustic environment. Proper room treatment and speaker placement can have a bigger impact on your mixes than the next piece of equipment on your wishlist. Room acoustics are just as important as the gear and even if you have nice gear in an untreated space, you won’t get the most from it.

Your room is part of your monitoring system and if you ignore it then essentially you’re mixing blind.

Have you treated your room, or are you still fighting your acoustics? Let me know below. 👇

Producer and IDIO Sound Lab co-owner Wes Smith with mixing engineer and IDIO Sound Lab co-owner Justin Hicks finishing off the final mixing and mastering of ALPHA CENTAURI’s debut full-length album today.

3 years in the making. 25 musicians. This album’s going to be epic and a statement for hip hop on Vancouver.

Excited! 🔥🔥🔥