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    Mix Prep Cheat Sheet

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    Preparing tracks properly before mixing is the most important phase of the mixing process. It involves organizing tracks with clear labels and order, ensuring all needed tracks are present and playing correctly, setting up busses for groups of tracks and effects, gain staging tracks to avoid clipping or be too low, checking polarity and phase issues, using subtractive EQ to remove unwanted frequencies in solo, and automating vocals for consistency.

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    Preparing tracks properly before mixing is the most important phase of the mixing process. It involves organizing tracks with clear labels and order, ensuring all needed tracks are present and playing correctly, setting up busses for groups of tracks and effects, gain staging tracks to avoid clipping or be too low, checking polarity and phase issues, using subtractive EQ to remove unwanted frequencies in solo, and automating vocals for consistency.

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    Preparing tracks properly before mixing is the most important phase of the mixing process. It involves organizing tracks with clear labels and order, ensuring all needed tracks are present and playing correctly, setting up busses for groups of tracks and effects, gain staging tracks to avoid clipping or be too low, checking polarity and phase issues, using subtractive EQ to remove unwanted frequencies in solo, and automating vocals for consistency.

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    Mix Prep Cheat Sheet

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    Preparing tracks properly before mixing is the most important phase of the mixing process. It involves organizing tracks with clear labels and order, ensuring all needed tracks are present and playing correctly, setting up busses for groups of tracks and effects, gain staging tracks to avoid clipping or be too low, checking polarity and phase issues, using subtractive EQ to remove unwanted frequencies in solo, and automating vocals for consistency.

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    Mix Prep Cheat Sheet 

    ● Most important phase of the mixing process. 


    ● More time preparing = less time mixing. 
    ● Important to mix fast. 
    ● Even if working on own music - export tracks, start a new project and prep for 
    the mix. 
    ● Organization 
    ○ Clear labels 
    ○ Track order 
    ○ Colors 
    ● Checking Your Tracks 
    ○ Make sure every track you need is there 
    ○ Make sure all the tracks are playing correctly 
    ● Busses 
    ○ Group busses (All Guitars, All Vocals, Drums etc.) 
    ○ Effect busses (Short Reverb, Room Reverb, Delay etc.) 
    ○ Sub Mix (send group busses here, but send ‘Reference’ channel straight to 
    main output) 
    ● Gain Staging 
    ○ Check if any tracks are hot (peaking above -10dbFS) or weak. 
    ○ Use a trim or gain plugin to adjust the gain until peaking below -10dBFS. 
    ○ Averaging around -18dbFS is ideal, but no need to be too particular. 
    Important thing is to have at least 10dB of headroom. 
    ● Check Polarity and Phase 
    ○ Check for any instruments that were recorded with microphones facing 
    each other 
    ○ Check for any instruments recorded with two mics, e.g. guitar amp with 
    two mics 
    ● Subtractive EQ 
    ○ Remove room resonances and other nasty frequencies. 
    ○ Focus on vocals and acoustic instruments. 
    ○ Do this in solo, not with whole mix. 
    ● Vocal automation 
    ○ Adjust your vocal to make it more consistent from the start 
    ○ This will help when creating the static mix and when you apply effects 
    later on 

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