ABSTRACT
Start with the Most Important Section Almost every piece of music worth the name has sections that can be considered emotional high points, and a series of drop-downs and buildups connecting them. Your job at the mix is to support this natural ebb and flow (sometimes called the “long-term mix dynamics”), while reserving the greatest musical intensity for the production’s most climactic section. This is something that amateur engineers have great difficulty with, the most common complaint being that the verses sound bigger than the choruses. Fortunately, the solution to this problem is disarmingly simple: work on your song sections in order of importance.
