Plus, most experienced audio engineers have not only spent a lifetime acquiring expensive and high quality effects plugins but also know how and when to use them appropriately. The difference between the good artists and great artists is that they are able to effectively communicate with their engineer the sound they’re going for as well as have made sure their recording and production all lend themselves to that sound (as a mixer can’t really make a folk song sound like a heavy metal song).Īlso the difference between a good engineer and great engineer is that they can already guess what sound an artist is going for or trying to go for and lead their sound in that particular direction (i.e. Also the old saying, “one must know the rules, in order to break the rules” comes to mind as the rules of mixing change seemingly with every popular release. It depends on the audio engineers taste and their experience listening and mixing a particular type of music. The more grey in his beard, the more he knows. Okay so now you know what mastering is, let’s talk about what mixing is! What does mixing entail? The purpose of mastering is to make it the same volume level as other songs (say on the same album) as well as to make it at the same volume level as other songs on radio, TV and on streaming services.Īdditionally, mastering may also fix minor issues that affect the overall song, say there’s white noise over the whole audio, mastering can remove it or lessen it. Mastering, on the other hand, (and you’ll get a more thorough read by checking out What is Mastering?) is basically taking a song that’s already mixed down, already one track, and making it sound louder, brighter and wider. If you’re wondering what an individual track is? Then let me back track, an individual track is simply the vocal tracks, the drum tracks, the piano tracks, the bass tracks, the guitar tracks, etc it is all the tracks that make up the song. The main thing to understand is the “individual parts” as the audio engineer will have access to each individual track and will therefore be able to manipulate it accordingly.
Of course, there’s much more to it but for the sake of simplicity that’s basically what it is. Mixing is the process of taking individual audio tracks that make up a whole song and making those parts sound good together. This isn’t the mixing we’re talking about.
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