MIXING TECHNIQUES
Working With Faders – The Extremes-Inward Experiment
By Roey Izhaki
A common question probably asked by every mixing engineer at least once is: So which fader goes up first and where exactly does it go? There are a few things we have to consider in order to answer this question. Faders simply like to go up. It should not come as a surprise if throughout a mixing session one by …
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20 Questions to Ask Yourself While Mixing…
By Bruce Bartlett
20 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF WHILE MIXING When mixing a song, I‘ve found it helpful to ask some questions about what I‘m hearing. The questions keep me focused, and they make sure that I‘m not overlooking anything. Here are a few things to ask about your own mixes. 1. Can I hear everything? This is the most important question. Seems …
Headphones and Mixing
By Mike Senior
Since the Sony Walkman first arrived on the scene back in 1979, headphone listening has become so widespread that you’d have to be pretty cavalier to sign off a mix without checking how it translates for such an enormous group of consumers. Therefore, the second important supplementary monitoring system (after a small, unported, single-driver speaker working in mono such as …
Mixing Audio: The Haas Trick
By Roey Izhaki
When two identical waveforms are not in phase, but each is played through a different speaker, the result is quite different from combfiltering. Two mixing tricks are based on such a stereo setup. The following outlines one of them – the Haas Trick.With both, two identical mono signals are sent to a different extreme, and one of the signals is …
Simulating a Live Drum Solo
By Bruce Bartlett
Suppose you just recorded a band in a club to create a live album. A few days after the gig, the drummer asks, “Can I play a drum solo in your studio, and have you add it to the album? I want it to sound “live”, as if I played it at the gig.” That happened to me. We recorded …
Mixing Audio: The Out-of-Speakers Trick
By Roey Izhaki
When two identical waveforms are not in phase, but each is played through a different speaker, the result is quite different from combfiltering. Two mixing tricks are based on such a stereo setup. The following outlines one of them – the out-of-speakers trick. With both, two identical mono signals are sent to a different extreme, and one of the signals is …
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