The thing that it always boils down to, at least in my opinion, is experience and monitoring.. and these two attributes are in a sort of feedback loop. There are no shortcuts to either. Experience comes with doing it (mixing, producing/composing, recording, mastering) and monitoring requires a lot of critical listening practice and experience to know when you actually have good monitoring happening that you can trust. Or at the very least monitoring that you have adequately learned all of it's issues to still be able to trust it.
No other tools or tricks of the trade are as important. Everything else is secondary or tertiary.
One of the first things that hugely improves your mixes, going from total noob to slightly more advanced, is to realize that there are no rules. Once you understand that the only important thing is the end product, not how you got there, will instantly level you up from noob to the next level.
No other tools or tricks of the trade are as important. Everything else is secondary or tertiary.
One of the first things that hugely improves your mixes, going from total noob to slightly more advanced, is to realize that there are no rules. Once you understand that the only important thing is the end product, not how you got there, will instantly level you up from noob to the next level.
Statistics: Posted by bmanic — Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:08 pm