ABSTRACT

Up until a few years ago, there was only one accepted way of creating a professional sounding mix: hiring a commercial studio facility and mixing through a traditional mixing console, like an SSL or a Neve. However, times have changed significantly since then, and mixing “in the box” — in other words, mixing completely within the domain of your audio sequencer — has become a viable, and some would say more flexible, alternative to the traditional console route. In truth, applications such as Logic Pro offer a tremendous amount of creative and technical freedom to today's mix engineer: complete and instantaneous recall, compression and equalization on every channel, studio-grade reverb, full automation, and much more besides.