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Turning your mixes into a polished, professional final product is a tedious, detail-focused effort. Mixers work to isolate problem areas in individual tracks, clean them up, and tie them all together for an emotional, dynamic mix (hopefully).
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Don’t you hate it when you decide to check out a new song, only to end up getting bored and hitting the skip button after the first minute or so?
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Programming different “sweeteners” into your mix is one of the easiest ways to add a narrative to your productions musically. Without words, programmed instrumentation can add transitions between song sections, bridging the gap between verse and chorus, and eliciting an emotional response in the process.
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Guitar tone is the Holy Grail for a lot of engineers – it’s something that some struggle with more than any other part of the mix. Give them stacks of vocals or a twenty-piece drum kit: they won’t bat an eyelash.
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If you’re looking for a creative way to toughen up your drum tones, there’s no approach quite like clipping. No, not recording so hot that your meters stay red. Not maxing every output of every plugin in the drum mix.
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