Mixing

Demystify the complex art of mixing with our resources and guides. Take your mixes from good to great and create pro-level songs.

How to Enhance Your Creative Process Using the Production Pyramid

This is a guest post from Nicholas Di Lorenzo of Panorama Mastering and Cassandra Zko of ZKO Music. From Sam: Some time ago, I asked the

7 Resources for Getting a Better EDM Mix

This is a guest post from Dan Comerchero of The Pro Audio Files. Since releasing our in-depth Mixing EDM tutorial, we’ve been putting out a

Stop Using So Much Compression

If you haven’t caught on yet, there’s a lot of bad advice chucked around on the internet. This applies to the electronic music production community

The Importance of a Fader-Only Mix (And How to Do It)

When mixing, we often think of EQ, compression, reverb, delay, distortion; this plugin and that plugin, this technique and that technique. These are all important, particularly EQ

Habits, Thoughts, and Tips from 12 Highly Skilled Producers

As music producers, we each develop our own set of processes when it comes to creating what we create. We might have developed something unique

Using Saturation as a Compressor in Ableton Live

Compression seems to be a bit of a frightening beast to many people when they first learn about it, and when they first start producing

50 Practical Mixdown Tips for Improving Your Tracks

In this post, I’m going to share 50 practical tips on how you can improve your mixes. These are mixing techniques and strategies used by

Three Different Ways to Compress Drums

Getting your drums to sound punchy and clear can be difficult, but there’s a tool in our arsenal that can help. Compression. In this article,

How to Use Reference Tracks When Producing Music

“I already know what reference tracks are and have been using them for ages.” This might be you when reading the title of this post.

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