From the course: Learning Auria Pro
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Basic mixing
- In this movie, I want to talk about some basic concepts to understand when mixing your song. Mixing involves adjusting the levels and effects of each individual track, so they all combine or mix into a single audio file that sounds full, balanced and well arranged, kind of like a finished song. A good first step is to make sure each track sounds the way you want it to sound both on it's own and in context with the other tracks. You might want to solo each track and listen for any strange or unexpected sounds you might not have heard when all the tracks were playing together. Now before I begin, I'm going to move all of my feeders down to about -5 or -10 dB so that I have some head room to work with while I'm mixing. Leaving yourself some headroom is always a good idea especially in the world of digital audio where tape hiss is a non issue and it will help you avoid clipping your master out. Now I'm also going to reset my pans. I've been sort of playing with the panning throughout…
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