How to Make Your Mixes Sound Great in Every System (Part 1)
Pro mixing engineer, composer, and mentor Gary Gray shares his thoughts in this two-part series on how you can get better sounding mixes in every system.
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Gain Staging: We Should All Be Doing It
Using gain adjustments from recording through mixing will help your track come out crisp and free of distortion, and make your master sound better too.
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Should You Be Mixing in Mono?
Listening to music in stereo is best, right? Well, yes, but for listeners using a phone, laptop, or in a bar, you’re going to want a balanced mono sound.
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The 3 Most Important Concerns When Mixing Hip-Hop Vocals
Find out how to create strong yet airy and not harsh-sounding vocals for your hip-hop mix. Why? Because hip-hop is ALL ABOUT the vocals!
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EQing Vocals: What’s Happening in Each Frequency Range in the Human Voice
Producing your own vocal tracks at home? Learn more about how human vocal frequencies work in order to manipulate how they sound in your tracks.
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The Hard Truth: Mixing Is Lonely
Working with collaborators is the best way to stay accountable to your goals and deadlines, but sometimes you’ve got to go it alone. Here’s some advice.
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How to Get a Rough Mix on Your Vocals with Volume and Panning
Here’s how to get a great start on your mixing session by running through your song with fingers on the volume faders and panning knobs.
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6 Tips for Mixing on the Go
You may not always have access to high-fidelity studio monitors, especially nowadays with studios being closed, so here are six tips for mixing on the go.
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The Abbey Road Trick: How to EQ Reverb Sends to Free Up Space in a Mix
Learn why this simple reverb trick can provide new space in the context of an entire mix, and how you can apply it to your own productions.
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Compressors vs. Limiters vs. Volume Automation: What’s the Difference?
What are the differences between these three forms of volume adjustment, and when to use each of them in your mixing process? We answer that and more here.
