Mixing

• Reading recommendations – Educate yourself!

• Mix Theory: Visualizing your mix

• FX Tips – Reverb: Reverse reverb
• FX Tips – EQ: How to sweep an eq
• FX Tips – EQ: Using high pass filters
• FX Tips – Delay: Using cross delay for larger tracks
• FX Tips – Delay: Slight stereo delay
• FX Tips – Delay: Creating extra wide stereo tracks from mono.
• Mix Tutorial: Phat Drums: New York Style Parallel Compression
• Mix Tutorial: Taming Vocals: Compressors In Series
• Mix Tutorial: Trim vocal tracks instead of using a noise gate
• Mix Tutorial: Turn a mono track into rich stereo

• Mix Recipes: Heavy guitar delay and eq
• Mix Recipes: Kick Drum eq and compression
• Mix Recipes: Snare drum eq and compression
• Mix Recipes: Tom drum eq and compression
• Mix Recipes: Bass eq and compression
• Mix Recipes: Saxophone eq and delay
• Mix Recipes: Clear and present vocals

Mixing is a vast topic on which you can spend a lifetime researching and learning, and still barely scratch the surface. I started my own journey around 1992 and have been on a tone quest ever since. Mixing is not something you just learn and then are good at. Each new project gives me a little more insight and teaches me something knew. No matter how much mixing information gets in my head, there is always room, and thirst, for more. Use these mixing articles as “jumping off” points for developing your own techniques. Just because I have an article on using series routed compressors on vocals doesn’t mean it is the one correct way to do it. In another year I might just as well be able to write an entirely new article on the subject and it will be completely different. This information is here to stimulate your creativity. So what are you waiting for? Pick and article and get stimulated!