Mixing Secrets

Mixing music in a home studio

• Professionally edit and arrange recordings
• The right equipment for a small budget
• Tips and tricks from top sound engineers like: Derek »MixedByAli« Ali, Michael Brauer, Serban Ghenea, Tony Maserati, Phil Tan

Small studio, small budget and professionally produced songs – mix specialist Mike Senior reveals how you can avoid beginner mistakes and mix songs at chart level using the techniques of successful sound engineers.

You'll be guided step by step through the entire mixing process: from studio equipment to timing adjustments and perfect mix ratios, right up to custom effects. The author specifically addresses the challenges of small studios and shows how you can achieve commercial quality even with low-budget productions.

Clear explanations, many tips and strategies from well-known music producers, and helpful to-dos will show you how to find your personal workflow and get the most out of your studio.

The author provides a comprehensive selection of additional links and multimedia files on a website that can be freely used for educational purposes. "Mixing Secrets" is therefore also perfectly suited for use in schools and universities.

From the content

Listening and listening

• Use near-field monitors
• Supplementary monitoring
• Damage limitation in the bass range
• From subjective impressions to objective results

Mix preparation

• Required preparatory work
• Timing and tuning adjustments
• Comping and arrangement

Mixing ratios

• Structure of the rough mixing ratios
• compression
• Equalizer
• Frequency-selective dynamic processing
• The power of sidechains
• Mixing ratios in motion

Refine to taste

• Mixing with Reverb
• Mixing with Delay
• Stereo widening
• Master bus compression, automation and final version

About the author

Mike Senior is a professional sound engineer who has worked with artists such as Wet Wet Wet and Nigel Kennedy . In his "Mix Rescue" column for SOUND ON SOUND magazine , he shows how to turn amateur recordings into professional-sounding results using affordable equipment.