Mixing

The low end is the hardest part of a mix to get right and the easiest to get wrong. Start with who owns the bottom.

How wide to go with two guitars, four guitars or one, and why duplicating a take will never give you the width you are after.

The mistakes that cost the most time and are the easiest to stop making, from mixing too loud to trusting your eyes over your ears.

The whole job in order, from setting levels to exporting the file: what to mix first, what to leave until last, and what to check before you call it done.

Sub bass that sounds great in headphones and vanishes in the car is a mixing problem. Here’s how to make it translate everywhere.

The core moves for mixing drums: tuning, EQ, group processing and compression, with a drum EQ cheat sheet to keep on hand.