Mixing Essentials: Five Tips to Improve Your Mix
How to mix music? As home studio recording musicians and producers we want our recorded tracks to sound great. But often, our area of expertise may be singing, playing an instrument, composing, or...
View ArticleYour Album’s Production Quality Matters
by Rick Saxby To me there are three kinds of mixes: First, there is the mix that has no hope at all. Even if the mix was sent to a top-of-the-line, major league mastering engineer, it still doesn’t...
View ArticleUsing Compressors for the Overall Mix: Part 1
by Rick Saxby Mixes tend to come out better when audio engineers mix with their hearts and not just their heads. It can take a while to get to that point though. For example, any baseball player first...
View ArticleMixing Essentials: Quick Tips to Avoid Ear Fatigue
Mixing music in your home studio tends to run long hours when you become engrossed in your work. After a period of time, you start to notice that everything is starting to sound monotonous, preventing...
View ArticleUsing Compressors for the Overall Mix: Part 2
by Rick Saxby In Using Compressors for the Overall Mix: Part 1, I focused on using a bus compressor to help mix your songs. In part two I will focus on using a mastering compressor after you are...
View ArticleMixing Essentials: Mixing Tips to Live By
Mastering the art of mixing music is not an easy task for home recording musicians. Great mixing engineers are themselves artists, as are singers, songwriters, musicians, producers and DJ’s. For us...
View ArticleWhy Using Mastered Tracks as Reference Can Pump up Your Mixes
One of the indispensable tips in mixing is comparing your mix alongside a mastered track or what is called a reference track. I mentioned this briefly in my last post Mixing Tips to Live By but want...
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