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  • Mix Separation Tips

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    General Ideas 1) Set Priorities for Conflicting Passages a) First Ask Yourself if Both Instruments are Needed at All at the Same Spot? b) If Yes, Ask Yourself if Which Instrument is More Important at that Spot? c) How Much the Less Important Instrument can be Attenuated in Terms of Frequencies and / or Level…

  • Widen Tricks

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    1) M/S EQ = Increase the Side Above 5kHz a Little, the Mid and the Side Should have a Coherency of Its Own, also to Clear Out the Middle of the Reverb Signal, Cut Lows and Boost/ Emphasise Highs in Side Channel 2) Use a Elliptical Filter to Put the Low End to the Middle,…

  • Mixing for Depth and Space

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    1) First Make Notes of How you want to Stack All Tracks 2) Clean Up Low and High Frequency Content from Tracks that Don’t Need Them 3) Sidechain Tracks that Use a Very Similar Frequency Spectrum Against Each Other (e.g.  with Trackspacer, DSEQ, Multiplicity)  4) Clean Midrange by Listen Through an EQ (e.g. ADPTR) that…

  • Width, Depth and Height in a Mix

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    Width Panning for Width Test 1 Panning for Width Test 2 Reverb for Width Test Depth Height

  • Mix and Pan in Constrained Boxes

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    General – the Idea is to Know which Box to Mix First and Continue in Little Boxes Until all Instruments are Mixed in Terms of Panning Workflow 1) Put 1 Thing to Middle 2) Pan 2 Same Related Weight Things a Little Off Centre at Same Position, e.g. L33 and R33 – Do Not Use…

  • Mono Mixing

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    General – Mixing in Mono Helps Cleaning Up Masking and Balancing Levels (Especially Vocals / Bass / Drums) – It Mainly has to Do with Energy and the Fact that Even if you Listen to Mono, the Sound Comes from 2 Speakers which Gives you in Theory 2 Basses, 2 Kicks etc. – so when…

  • LCR Effects Tips

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    General – the Idea is to have the Music in the Middle and the Effects on the Side Workflow 1) Make a Mix, Dry with as Little Masking as Possible and Collapse to Mono – i.e. Either Mix in Mono, LCR or Collapse the Stereo Mix to Mono 2) Use 2 Mono Reverbs Placed Very…