Mixing, songs/audio/music tips

MUSIC, SOUND, AUDIO MIXING TIPS:

1. Give yourself plenty of headroom in your DAW, if you're mixing in the box. A good
way to start your mix is with the kick drum. Lock it in between -6db/-10db's.
Then mix your other sounds around the kick. Hopefully your mix will then sit below
0 db with no digital clipping!

2. Try to buy the best A/D-D/A converters you can afford. You might be thinking
"But I am not recording anything, I am working all in the box!". The point is you'll
be able to make much better choices/decisions when mixing. You will be listening
through quality converters.

3. Your mixing room. Try to treat your room acoustics the best you can. If you
have a lot of reflective surfaces it will effect the listening. In smaller rooms
bass traps help a lot. But don't go over board making your room too dead !!

4. Try to buy a pair of decent near field monitors. Near fields will give a flat freq
response. Again you'll be able to make much better choices/decisions when mixing !

5. I love this guys angle on mixing, check out the post here at FutureProducers.com.

6. Experience is the key. Just keep mixing, mixing, and more mixing. Every time you mix
a different track you'll come up with different problems. The bass is not right, the
vocals are not sitting right, no stereo spread, no punch, lack of clarity etc etc. Each
time you're going to fix these issues by trying things out and experimenting. Try out what
you have learnt in the classroom and what you have read online and in books !

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