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What's Mixing?
Mixing a song, for me, involves:
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Listening to the whole piece and understanding how it fits together.
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Trying to grasp the essence of the song - what is its story, its mood, its emotional flavour - in consultation with the people who made it.
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Working on what sort of listening space suits that essence - intimate? Spacey? Airy? A hot, packed club? A concert hall?
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Carefully using reverbs to help create that listening space.
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Listening to each instrument and voice carefully and working out how they can fit together comfortably into a whole picture
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Using EQ to shape tone, compression to shape the dynamics of each part, and other effects and processing to enhance and perhaps dramatise.
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Balancing volumes and place in the stereo image.
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Automating volumes and effects, to add drama or emphasis at different points, or to help transitions from one song section to another.
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Listening to the whole song after these processes and applying any treatments necessary to make the whole mix ‘glue together’.
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Fading out, or enhancing the ending.