Alchemical Sounds is currently a one man show run by Jack Savage, a 23 year old top student at The Lexington School For Recording Arts in Lexington, KY. I offer online mixing and mastering services specializing in rock, jazz, and metal. I’m a big time audio nerd and I’m always learning and improving my craft.

Gear

For my mixing and mastering services I use Reaper as my DAW, FabFilter plugins for the general purpose processing, Acon Digital plugins for restoration, Melodyne for vocal tuning, and Audeze MM-500’s for monitoring. Don’t choose your engineer based on their gear. Choose them based on their skills and style as a great engineer can get great results from an iPhone and decent ear buds.

Dynamic Fidelity

I have a prediction for the future. Given that audio fidelity has reached the limit of human hearing for at least 99.9% of people since the widespread adoption of digital audio, music constantly evolves, and that people, especially younger people are getting sick of the sterile, mass produced, polished nature of modernity, I predict that the music of the future will have what I’m calling dynamic fidelity. Dynamic fidelity is when the overall sound quality is used as a tool of musical expression and changes over the course of a piece of music. For example, if the mood of the song changes from happy to sad, the audio quality would change from sounding clear, full, and bright to sounding more distorted and dark. Currently it is very rare to hear a song or even full album where the fidelity or any other aspect of the mix changes with the mood. By adding dynamic fidelity to your music, you unlock a whole new dimension of creative expression. In audio engineering terms this could be done by automating parallel compression, automating master EQ profiles, automating saturation, or even LFO modulated ring modulation if you want to go nuts. Of course I don’t have to add this to your music if you want a consistent sound. Hop on the dynamic fidelity train before it becomes mainstream.