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3. Mixing
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What Is Mixing?
Mixing is a skill all on it's own and is incredibly important to the overall sound of your song. The mix can change the character of your music dramatically.
Mixing involves taking each individual part of your song (Hi Hat, Snare, Lead vocal, Backing vocals, Guitar parts etc) and adjusting the volumes, EQ's and adding effects until the desired results are achieved. In other words until your songs sounds exactly how you want it!
Such things that are typically done within the mix include;
- Correcting arrangement issues
- Adding vocal effects
- Balancing instruments
- Balancing frequencies
- Adjusting volumes
- Removing undesirable artifacts (pops, breaths etc)
You may wonder if the mix is really worth al the effort, after all you've recorded all your parts and the songs sounds basically done right?
Wrong. The mix can literally makean average song sound professional. Take one example, we mentioned "Balancing frequencies, which is widely misunderstood among musicians and even many mix engineers.
Your song may have all the instruments you need but a good mix engineer will hear that certain frequencies may be missing. Adding those frequencies willimmediately make the song sound fuller and feel more "together. It is a strange phenomenon butit makes a huge difference!
We recently worked with Pete Hammond who is one of the worlds most respected mix engineers. He told us that on many hit songs he would add a single note that played throughout the entire song (chosen theright note and frequency). This background note would be nicknamed the "Glue" as it seems to tie everything together.
We have found the same thing, simple use of frequency makes a huge difference. And remember, that is just one component to a professional mix!
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