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Tips on How to Mix Music
When one piece of music seems outstanding next to the mediocrity of another it is commonly not because of the melodies involved. Instead, one track sounds better than another because it has a balanced and sweetened mix while the other has been patched together with in an amateur and guesswork fashion. The list below gives some tips to consider when mixing a piece of music that has professional aspirations.
1. Use the most professional sounding recordings and samples to build your track in the first place. Bad audio recordings is the surest way to have a terrible sounding track.
2. Utilize equalizers to cut out spaces in the audio spectrum for each instrument. For instance, cut cymbals at 1KHz to keep them in the higher registers and cut bass guitars at 100Hz to keep them from muddying up with the bass drum.
3. Use at least some panning for most of the instruments to create a nice stereo field. Cymbals, percussion, and strings sound great panned though the bass drum and bass guitar and usually kept center field.
4. Learn how to employ compression to give punch and power to each instrument. Without compression, instruments always sound weak and flimsy.
5. Before mastering, play favorite tracks from CDs in the same genre as your project and compare the overall sound quality. Determine if your track sounds like these professionally released mixes and if not, why not.
6. During final mixing, limit high peaks with a limiter which will let you increase the loudness of the entire track to its highest potential without distorting.
Finally, after you've burned your new mix onto a CD or into your .mp3 player play it in your car, your living room, your buddy's house to make sure that your hit single sounds fantastic in all types of speakers systems.
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