Learn more about Music Mixing
There are no club bangers or pop smash hits without music mixing and mastering. Mixing music is the next step beyond the recording process, and creates some of the catchiest atmospheric elements of your favorite tracks. Volume, dynamics, and panoramic positions all fall under the music mixing umbrella.
Frequently asked questions
Music mixing is taking the different parts of a recorded piece of music and mixing them into a whole piece of music. Specifically, it is the art and science of combining multitrack recordings into a single final track, whether mono, stereo, or surround sound. A music mixer typically starts by adjusting the relative levels of each track, setting and even automating them so that the balance of the mix is optimized at all times. The process involves intense use of hardware and/or software gear such as compressors, reverbs, delays, equalizers, and other tools to create the desired sound. Many apply these effects to both single tracks and groups of tracks “bussed” together and treated as a single. Mixers control the “depth” of sound using volume, the “width” using the stereo field, and the “height” using frequencies. A mixing engineer typically uses a digital audio workstation (DAW) or a hardware mixing console.