Monday, October 14, 2013

A Lot of Little Tweaks

When mixing, you need to keep in mind it's making many small subtle tweaks that bring the song to life. You are not going to make one adjustment that will make the song perfect or use your best plug-in and the song will sound great. There isn't even a trick you can use to make your song sound complete. You have to go through the song and carve away frequencies; 1-3dB here and 1-3dB there to let other instruments cut through, add harmonics, compress to keep instruments in there place and create width. Everything will be subtle as you work through it. Listening  from the starting point and to the finished product will pay off to taking the time and making all these small adjustments that are necessary to make the song sound its absolute best.

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