Mixing Preparation and Balancing by Yourself

The first part of the walkthrough Mixing and Mastering by Yourself. Though I use Logic Pro X as example (and a little Ableton Live) the approaches can be easily generalised for any other DAW. The link to part 2 Mixing Music by Yourself Link to part 3 (Mastering) Subscribe to my channel The link to the sample song Escape from Palo Alto - on Google Music (in the album “Фараон” (Pharaoh)): - on YouTube: Contents 0:30 Maximum music elements to mix 5:08 The use of the colour 6:41 The timbre of the individual instruments 7:12 The voice tuning 8:53 The basic loudness balance 10:00 Master volume 11:47 When to apply the volume automation 12:11 Bouncing all tracks to audio before the mixing 13:08 Dividing the track groups to apply different effects 15:42 The minimal set for the mixing and mastering 16:15 Classic affordable headphones for the sound monitoring 16:59 The use of the limiting number of hardware faders in the fine tune balance 19:16 What can you achieve by yourself (Pareto principle) 20:48 Cutting not needed frequencies by the equalisers