Music Mixing Category

EQ Best Practices in Audio Mixing

If you are applying EQ in audio mixing, then as a beginner you should know these best practices. Take note that this applies to any genre whether it will be rock, pop, country or even classical. Try this EQ best practices in your mix, it will drastical …

The Art of Two-Dimensional Audio Mixing: Front & Back

One of the most often asked questions in audio mixing are as follows: a.) How to mix instruments so that they would sound like they are up-front or back in the mix? b.) How to put instruments in the center, right, left or mid-right and mid-left in the …

Can you achieve quality audio mix using only free plugins?

Is this possible? After all, you might have read a lot of tutorials and forum advices to use quality plug-ins like Waves, etc. during mixing. And you have learned that plug-ins is important and extensively used to shape the sound of the mix as best as …

Complete EQ settings to Start when doing Audio Mixing

In this post, I would like to share my most favourite EQ settings for different instruments in the mix. Feel free to try, of course this is not a one setting-fits-all solution; at least you have something to start with. The following settings assume th …

How to Prepare and Send Recorded Tracks for Audio Mixing

Let’s have this example. Have you ever thought; “How am I going to make my recordings compatible with any DAW for mixing”? Supposing you are proaducing a song; then you are recording the tracks. All tracking is now complete in your own DAW or tracking …