ABSTRACT
There are two primary ingredients to mixing: performing a variety of audio processes on the tracks and configuring those processes together, within and among the tracks. With the advent of the digital audio workstation (DAW), plug-ins representing many different audio processes that traditionally had been the province of mixers became available to editors. So the question becomes the division of labor: how much equalization to do during editing versus howmuch to leave to the mix, for instance. There are several primary differences between editing and mixing:
. The training and experience of editors and mixers is different, although the disciplines are converging. Nonetheless, on the highest levels of the Hollywood feature film, for instance, the roles are separate. Editors tend to concentrate on the trees (e.g., work within a track especially at the edits and getting blend within a track so that it plays across edits without bumps, and how the tracks are laid out), whereas mixers concentrate on the forest (e.g., how the overall equalization of a track is working and how tracks are blending).
