Mixing bass can be a very frustrating process. What sounds good to you on your studio monitors can all of a sudden fall apart on your stereo or ipod. Most inexperienced engineers will boost the living hell out of the low end expecting their mixes to sound massive. You’ll find this leaves your mixes sounding muddy, flabby, muffled or all of the above. This is because getting the low end right in a mix is very challenging in the beginning. Your aim is to get a balanced mix not one that is way too low end heavy. The low end consists usually of the kick drum and the bass guitar. In this tutorial we’ll just be concentrating on mixing the bass guitar. Continue reading →

Mixing vocals is always the trickiest part of the mix. Even if you get every other aspect of the track sounding killer, if the vocals aren’t great the whole thing suffers. Instead of doing a general “How To Mix Vocals” tutorial ive decided to split the vocal mixing tutorials into the different musical genres. I think this will allow me to get into the specifics and differences of vocal mixing for each genre and also give you guys a better starting point for your mixes. Continue reading →

The mix buss setup is an extremely important part of the overall sound of your mix. By mix buss im referring to the master fader and the effects/inserts being used to process the entire mix. I have a basic setup that I use on most of mixes but certain plugins will be added or subtracted depending on the style of music. I’ll go into more detail about that later on in this article. Continue reading →