March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
10h 55m
English
This chapter is about making presets for your mix: basic settings that you can almost always rely on. This might sound like a recipe for making the same mix over and over again, but I would argue that the opposite is true. A familiar starting point gives you the confidence and ease required to make decisions quickly, leaving you more time to get to the core of the music. Hardware can speed up this process a bit, because it settles into your muscle memory. You’ve probably seen how experienced engineers can really fly across the mixing desk. But it can also be a burden if you have to switch between projects a lot and restore the settings every time. The last part of this chapter discusses ...