Hey there,

I hope you've been having a great week so far.

It's been a crazy Black Friday Week here in audio world, and in case you missed some of my previous emails, here's a quick roundup of what we've been talking about this week:

Free VU Meter from Waves. Waves has a ton of Black Friday plug-in deals but they also have this freebie VU meter that can come in handy while mixing and mastering. Just navigate to the plug-ins and search for VU meter to download it.

Mixing Breakthroughs - a great course in punching through that invisible barrier and getting that extra 10% out of your mixes. The course is 35% off with the coupon code BLACKFRIDAY35

The Pro Audio Files Workshop Bundle - The Workshop Series includes eight in-depth video tutorials (6+ hours) on specific mixing topics. Learn new techniques, increase your confidence and level up the quality of your mixes. Use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY40

The Dynameter from Meterplugs and Ian Shepherd.  See the dynamics of your music, in real-time. Stop worrying about Loudness, start working with dynamics and make better sounding, dynamic mixes. Use coupon code MPLGBLACK to get 30% off.

The Perception Plug-in from Meterplugs and Ian Shepherd. Perception allows you to hear through “loudness deception” and make truly impartial, accurate decisions about the best possible sound for your music - quickly and easily. You can instantly bypass entire FX chains to make A/B comparisons of EQ settings, compression and more. Even better, Perception will level-match and sync your sources so that "loudness deception" and plugin delay do not influence your decisions. Use coupon code MPLGBLACK to get 30% off.

Rockstars of Drums course from Lij Shaw at Recording Studio Rockstars. Learn how to record, edit, and mix pro sounding drums with Nashville session drummer Mike Radovsky and Grammy studio owner Lij Shaw. Use coupon code audioissues10 to get 60% off the entire bundle order, including awesome free bonuses like Rockstars of Mixing and Rockstars of Mastering.

40% Off All Course from The Recording Revolution. No code needed. Just grab any of Graham's great courses and start making better sounding productions.

I hope you take advantage of some of those sales if you're looking for some great training and plug-ins to make your mixes sound better in the future. If you purchase through any of these links you'll help me keep adding more useful content, fun stories, and silly anecdotes to the site and I thank you for that in advance.

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Björgvin