Audio mixing

Audio mixing is the art of blending, editing, and balancing multiple sources of sound to achieve sonic clarity and cohesion. Check out our resources below to learn the tools and techniques used in creating professional sounding mixes.

6 Tips for Mixing Good Ol’ Fashioned Rock and Roll

6 Tips for Mixing Good Ol’ Fashioned Rock and Roll

Greetings! If you’re here, you’re interested in mixing some rock music. If that’s the case, we salute you—with tips aimed at mixing good...

How to EQ Guitars in Your Mix

How to EQ Guitars in Your Mix

How to EQ guitars is often managed as a matter of taste. We EQ guitars to make space for other parts of the mix, reduce unwanted harsh or ringing...

David Yungin Kim: How to Mix a Song from Start to Finish

David Yungin Kim: How to Mix a Song from Start to Finish

Are you looking for tips on how to mix a song? In this video, GRAMMY-winning and multi-platinum mix engineer David Yungin Kim shares how he uses iZotope...

8 Tips for Taming Harsh Treble in the Mix

8 Tips for Taming Harsh Treble in the Mix

Harsh high end can be annoying to music producers and mix engineers. With that first application of the EQ, we hope against all hope that a simple low pass...

How to mix piano

How to mix piano

The piano is a symphony orchestra in one single instrument—so no wonder pianos can be confounding to mix! If you’ve ever found yourself stuck on how to...

What is tonal balance in mixing and mastering?

What is tonal balance in mixing and mastering?

“Tonal balance” is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot by mixing and mastering engineers as if they’re talking about something as...

Audio Mixing: 10 Hidden Features in Neutron

Audio Mixing: 10 Hidden Features in Neutron

Neutron  is to mixing what  Ozone  is to mastering: an intelligent, modular channel strip plug-in that helps you with any mixing task. Whether...

Mix Bus 101: Why, When, and How to Group Tracks into a Bus

Mix Bus 101: Why, When, and How to Group Tracks into a Bus

Are you looking for better sonic control and improved organization within your mixes, all while being more CPU friendly? You've come to the right...

8 Tips for Mixing Rap and Hip-Hop

8 Tips for Mixing Rap and Hip-Hop

Mixing rap and hip-hop can be both liberating and challenging. On one hand, you have the opportunity to try more creative mix techniques like vocal throws...

How to EQ a Pop Vocal

How to EQ a Pop Vocal

Pop vocals tend to have the same sort of sound when they hit our ears. People use words like bright, shiny, crisp, and airy to describe them, and you can...

Understanding Chorus, Flangers, and Phasers in Audio Production

Understanding Chorus, Flangers, and Phasers in Audio Production

Most producers are familiar with the most common audio processors: EQs, compressors, reverb, and delay. These can be (and often are) used in every...

How to Mix Acoustic Guitar

How to Mix Acoustic Guitar

Sonically, the acoustic guitar is one of the more complex sounds you can have in a production.  Whether you are starting with a great acoustic guitar...