I only mix songs that I am feeling. If im not feeling the track then I cant put my heart and soul into mixing it.........!
MUSIC, SOUND, AUDIO MIXING TIPS:
1. Give yourself plenty of headroom in your DAW, if your mixing in the box. A good
way to start your mix is to start with the kick drum. Lock it in between -6db/-10db's.
Then mix you 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 im not recording anything, im working all in the box!". The point is you'll
be able to make much better choices/decisions when mixing listening through
quality converters.
3. Your mixing room. Try to treat your room acoustics the best your can. If you
have alot of reflective surfaces its gonna effect the listening. In smaller rooms
bass traps help alot. But dont go over board making your room to 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 your gonna 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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