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Talking About Waves

April 20, 2013 David Stagl
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I almost forgot to mention this. On Tuesday I’ll be doing a free webinar with Waves at noon EDT talking about mixing and using their plugins. I

If you missed me mentioning this on Twitter and still haven’t signed up, you can do so here. The webinar will be a live chat so bring your questions.

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