Anyone who deals with music recording is faced with the need to mix this music. Indeed, a "raw" recording of a song has no artistic or musical value. To listen to your song, recorded in multiple tracks and channels, it needs mixing and mastering, cleaning up the sound and highlighting the necessary moments and timbres. It takes professional skills and experience to make really good music mixing.
Instructions
Step 1
Mix your recordings in a room that is as isolated as possible from background noise and unnecessary sounds.
Step 2
Before mixing, set the faders of your audio editing software to zero and use professional monitors for sound engineering - both headphones and speakers, with zero frequency response.
Step 3
Listen to the raw tracks in the head monitors to understand how you will mix them, and what result you will achieve in the first place.
Step 4
For starters, get rid of noise and interference while keeping the original sound quality as unchanged as possible.
First of all, get down to mixing low frequencies - tweak the drum track with compression and reverb effects, as well as highlighting low and high frequencies in the right places.
Step 5
After the rhythm section, correct the bass track. Pan the bass and other melodic instruments to achieve sound volume. You can dub a track to make it sound more powerful.
Step 6
Then adjust the sound and balance of the melodic instruments and vocals. Pay special attention to the vocals - adjust the notes, add effects that decorate the voice (for example, hall or reverb), apply compression.
Step 7
Duplicate the vocals on the left and right channels so that it sounds spacious and beautiful in panorama.
These actions will prepare your track for more serious and deeper processing.
