Music Mixing Category

Cheer music mixes review: How to make cheer dance competition music

Hi Emerson, I love your website, it is very instructive. I would consider myself proficient in mixing, and a novice in mastering. I create mixes using top 40 songs, for competitive cheerleading teams. I use Acid 7.0 software for the actual mixing, and …

Tips to improve musical clarity of live rock band practice & rehearsal

This post will highlight all possible ways on how you can improve the sound quality and clarity of your band practice. Have you noticed that if you are doing band practice whether at your friends’ garage, the overall sound is lacking in clarity despite …

Correct Audio Mixing Levels and Headroom in Preparation for Mastering

This an important beginner guide in audio mixing. This is all about setting right levels and headroom for your audio mixing projects. If you ignore the importance of setting proper levels and setting headroom, the mixdown ends up squashed, poor in dyna …

Mixing Horns, Trumpets, Trombone & Sax- EQ techniques for Best Clarity

Someone asked me how to mix horns combined with other instruments such as drums: Hello, thank you so much for all the advice and tips you offer on this site…very helpful. 1 song, sounds like an old Chicago, horn driven pop tune: 2 trumpets, trombone …

Using Parametric EQ to Find the “Sweet Spot” of any Musical Instruments

Most of the EQ suggestions in this blog are very specific such as: Boost +6dB 100Hz for Kick Drums Q=1.4 However in real world EQ adjustment, different musical instruments are not exactly unique in sound although they are still kick drums, bass guitar, …