Chapter 20
Mixing Your Music
In This Chapter
Planning your mixes before you get started
Tweaking your tracks with different effects
Placing the tracks in the proper sonic space
Automating mixing processes for the best possible results
A single chapter about mixing music can only hope to hit the highlights of what you should do with your tracks. Great minds wrote volumes on this topic, schools teach multiple classes on techniques, and years of learning and experience go into creating the best mixers on the planet. So, let us manage your expectations a little — the advice in this chapter isn’t enough to make you into a stellar mixing engineer — overnight.
What this chapter CAN do is start you to the right road to mixing your tracks using the tools available to you on your iOS device. We take a look at available tools and how you can use them as part of the mixing process. And you can start letting your ears do the work as you create your masterpieces. Let’s get started!
Adopting a Mixing Strategy
Before you jump into your mixing process, take a look at the overall product ...
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