Once you have recorded the individual tracks in your audio production it’s time to mix the tracks into the finished piece of music. One thing that’s often neglected is preparing the tracks properly to get them ready for the mixing process.

Mixing involves making adjustments to the sound of each track to make sure it is doing its job properly in the final mix. The mixing process helps to blend the tracks together in a cohesive way. 

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Prepping your tracks for mix.

My preferred format is WAV or AIFF, 24 bit, 44.1 or 48k. Higher sample rates are also OK if recorded at that rate originally, but don’t upsample as it doesn’t really help.

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• Please ensure all tracks have been timed, tuned and edited. (Vocal tuning or editing is an additional charge)

 

• Print any virtual instruments or soft synths to audio tracks at reasonable levels before you export. The same with guitar plugins, virtual amps, etc.

 

• Print any special effects key to the production to audio tracks before you export. By this I mean if there is some unique effect for a section, or something that you really want to retain.

 

• Every track should start exactly at the same time. This allows me to import the tracks into Logic and everything lines up perfectly, there is no guessing where certain elements of the song need to be.

 

• Export every mono source as a mono track and every stereo source as a stereo track.

 

• Name each audio file appropriately (Kick In, Kick Out, Bass Amp, Guitar 1 DI, Vocal Double etc) and keep the naming consistent. If you have a preference for where the track is placed in the stereo field then include that in the name e.g. Rhythm Guitar L.

 

• Please provide your rough mix of the song for reference as well as links to songs that you want to achieve a similar sound and vibe to. These will give me an idea of your vision and something to aim for when I start to mix. 

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