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Making a mix without building it

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Making a mix without building it

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There are some mixers that just push up all the faders and mix with everything in the mix from the beginning. The theory is that everything will be in the mix anyway, so you might as well start with it all in as soon as you can. In this movie, I'm going to show you the advantages of mixing this way, and we'll look at an example of how this technique is done. The advantage of this method is that by hearing all of the instruments and vocals, you're able to make an aural space for everything. If you insert one instrument at a time, you begin to run out of space, and frequently you have to go back to the beginning just to make sure everything fits in together properly. The downside to this is it might not have the power of the previous mixes. So the first thing is we'll just bring all the faders up. And in this case, we have our subgroup faders that we're going to be mixing from, just to make things a little bit easier. And we're just going to randomly bring the faders up here. (music…

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