I know what you’re thinking. “Enough of the monitoring stuff already; let’s get mixing!” That’s a fair comment, but for the benefit of anyone who skipped straight over Part 1, let me be absolutely clear: you’ve missed out the most important bit of the book! Nothing from here on will help you much unless you can actually hear what you’re doing.
Even with that bit of tub thumping out of the way, though, it’s not quite time to start flexing the faders yet, because one of the key factors in putting together a professional-sounding mix is preparing the ground properly. A major stumbling block for small-studio owners is that they’re usually trying to mix the unmixable—their problems derive at least as much from shoddy mix preparation ...
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