ABSTRACT
Instead, the first section reveals various technical issues that you should give consideration to while preparing for your mix. This is followed by discussion of the various “tools of the trade” that you may use during your mixing sessions. The third section makes suggestions about how you might progress while you are organizing your mix, marking out the sections, ordering the tracks, grouping tracks together, setting up VCA groups, and using the Edit window to automate the mix. Finally, you get to the mix itself. You may be using a hardware controller together with the real-time Mix Automation features, or you may mix “manually” by setting the faders by hand, or by drawing in automation curves with the mouse. Ultimately, you will arrive at a result that you are happy with. At this point, you will make your “final” or “master” mix, which is the one that you will supply to the mastering studio that prepares the mixes for release on CD and in other formats. If you are intending to master the mixes yourself, you may still choose to make these final mixes at the end of the music production process and handle mastering as a separate stage once production is finished.
