Audio mixing equipment Tag

How to Connect Compressor-EQ in Mixer Inserts and Reverb in Aux Sends

Compressors, Reverb and EQ are the most important effects in audio mixing. When used properly, they significantly improve the quality of your audio mix. This beginner tutorial will talk about how to connect them to your mixing console. This is referrin …

Pre-fader vs Post-fader Aux sends/return and Insert FX: How to use it?

This post removes the confusion about pre-fader, post-fader, aux sends/return and Insert FX in audio mixing and recording. Whether you are mixing entirely using a software or a hardware mixing console; this guide will be applicable. First, you might ha …

Why you should not mix using headphones?

Audio mixing is sometimes misleading newbies into using headphones to mix their projects. It is because they always see pictures of studio personnel using headphones as they might think these engineers are actually using headphones in audio mixing the …

Tips on buying a mixer for home recording

In this post, you will learn the tips on how buy a mixer for home recording. Bear in mind that an audio mixer is most versatile audio equipment you can use. Therefore you can use a mixer in any part of your recording and mixing process. Let me give you …