I am going to give you some tips to help your music mixing techniques. These tips will give you a better insight into what it takes to be a better music producer. These are things that you might have overlooked or misinterpreted. Hopefully we can now set things straight and make the skills and mindset on the right path.
1. Rest at set periods, no matter what.
You will need to rest your ears at set time to avoid tiredness and fatigue. Also so that you can trust them when making decisions about a mix.
2. Do not over pack a song or mix.
A song with many twinkling diamond sounds will sound pretty good but it will be a hard task to mix. Having a few very well mixed parts is a lot better than having a lot of colliding parts poorly mixed. Start out mixing with a few things and build up with more parts over time and songs.
3. Have a clean master bus channel.
When using effects and processes it is better to use them on single or bussed channels that lead to a clean and clear master bus channel.
4. Mix and write music separately.
Your brain uses two different parts for mixing and writing, to cut a long story short, it is possible to do both mixing and writing together but the results will never be controllably good.
5. Everything in its place.
The bass must be the most troublesome thing in a mix and it is well known for this. The first thing people normally do: EQ the bass, into its place. The mix will then sound a lot better and less muddy. This is relatively easy compared to doing the same to the other tracks you have in the mix.
6. EQ will not solve all the problems.
EQ 95% of the time is used to cut audio frequencies out, if it is used to add them it is normally at a minimalists level so that only you would know it was being used.
7. Keep it down!
So you can get a clear idea of the whole mix you should be aiming to keep the mix between 5/6dB. This will also help with the processes that will come later (mastering etc.)
8. Listen to tracks that have been finished, professionally.
If you listen to some accomplished groups tracks from time to time it can really put mixing in perspective and get ideas for your tracks.
9. Mute all, and mold back together.
Mute all the effects also and bring the different tracks back in independently. Unmuted and mute effects to find what is causing the problem or creating the sound that is not lighting your fire.
10. Turn it down (now and then).
This is amazingly good when trying to set volume levels of different tracks, you real get to see the problem tracks very clearly.
1. Rest at set periods, no matter what.
You will need to rest your ears at set time to avoid tiredness and fatigue. Also so that you can trust them when making decisions about a mix.
2. Do not over pack a song or mix.
A song with many twinkling diamond sounds will sound pretty good but it will be a hard task to mix. Having a few very well mixed parts is a lot better than having a lot of colliding parts poorly mixed. Start out mixing with a few things and build up with more parts over time and songs.
3. Have a clean master bus channel.
When using effects and processes it is better to use them on single or bussed channels that lead to a clean and clear master bus channel.
4. Mix and write music separately.
Your brain uses two different parts for mixing and writing, to cut a long story short, it is possible to do both mixing and writing together but the results will never be controllably good.
5. Everything in its place.
The bass must be the most troublesome thing in a mix and it is well known for this. The first thing people normally do: EQ the bass, into its place. The mix will then sound a lot better and less muddy. This is relatively easy compared to doing the same to the other tracks you have in the mix.
6. EQ will not solve all the problems.
EQ 95% of the time is used to cut audio frequencies out, if it is used to add them it is normally at a minimalists level so that only you would know it was being used.
7. Keep it down!
So you can get a clear idea of the whole mix you should be aiming to keep the mix between 5/6dB. This will also help with the processes that will come later (mastering etc.)
8. Listen to tracks that have been finished, professionally.
If you listen to some accomplished groups tracks from time to time it can really put mixing in perspective and get ideas for your tracks.
9. Mute all, and mold back together.
Mute all the effects also and bring the different tracks back in independently. Unmuted and mute effects to find what is causing the problem or creating the sound that is not lighting your fire.
10. Turn it down (now and then).
This is amazingly good when trying to set volume levels of different tracks, you real get to see the problem tracks very clearly.
If you are looking for more tips on hip hop tune writing and hip hop production, you should have a look at this guide to producing hip hop
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