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 Using Reverb in Different Genres of Music

6 Tips for Using Reverb in Different Genres of Music

As with all processing, genre needs to be considered when adding reverb to the various elements a mix. What’s appropriate in one style of music is...

8 Reverb Tips: How to Manage Reverb-Heavy Mixes

8 Reverb Tips: How to Manage Reverb-Heavy Mixes

Some styles of music call for more reverb than others. But piling on plug-ins without a gameplan can quickly turn your mix into a cloudy wash of sound. To...

6 Times to Use Multiple Reverbs in a Mix

6 Times to Use Multiple Reverbs in a Mix

In a session, it’s common parlance that you shouldn’t load up all your tracks with reverb, because doing so can turn your mix into a muddy,...

5 Essential Tips for Mixing Reverb

5 Essential Tips for Mixing Reverb

Reverb can be tricky to deal with in a mix. The space that it adds can be very helpful, but sloppy reverb sounds can often become smeared over the mix,...

9 Tips for Using Reverb with Drums

9 Tips for Using Reverb with Drums

Your drums sound narrow, dry, and small. You need them to sound bigger, so you send them to a concert-hall reverb. That’ll do the trick, right? Probably...

8 Pesky Problems RX 7 Standard Will Fix in Your Mix

8 Pesky Problems RX 7 Standard Will Fix in Your Mix

You’re a smart cookie: you probably know the standard uses for RX 7. If you can hear the room surrounding a vocal, you know to use Voice De-noise to tamp it...

Multiband Compressors vs. Dynamic EQs: Differences and Uses

Multiband Compressors vs. Dynamic EQs: Differences and Uses

Multiband compressors and dynamic EQs are some of the most useful tools available to mixing and mastering engineers. They allow for dynamic control of defined...

6 Ways to Use Neutron 3 for Post Production

6 Ways to Use Neutron 3 for Post Production

This article references a previous version of Neutron. Learn about  Neutron 5  and its powerful features including Assistant View, Target Library, Unmask,...

The Magic of RX 7 Music Rebalance, Part 3: Getting Weird

The Magic of RX 7 Music Rebalance, Part 3: Getting Weird

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we discussed the basics of the Music Rebalance module in  RX . We’ve covered all the interface elements...

The Magic of RX 7 Music Rebalance, Part 2: Sensitivity and Separation

The Magic of RX 7 Music Rebalance, Part 2: Sensitivity and Separation

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the basics of Music Rebalance in  RX . We focused on the four gain sliders for Voice, Bass,...

The Magic of RX 7 Music Rebalance, Part 1: The Gain Sliders

The Magic of RX 7 Music Rebalance, Part 1: The Gain Sliders

You may have read about new machine learning features in  RX like Music Rebalance and shaken your head—Wait a minute, you’re saying...

9 Tips to Preserve Dynamics without Sacrificing Loudness

9 Tips to Preserve Dynamics without Sacrificing Loudness

Unless you’re going for a hi-fi experience, everyone wants a track that sounds, feels, and heck, just is loud. Don’t deny it just because...