User:Michael Nwabueze/sandbox

Mixing Guidelines

As with anything you do in sound engineering, it ultimately comes down to what sounds good so use your ears first and foremost, and when possible compare your work with one you're familiar with/aiming for (a favorite CD or something).

Panning - Moving sounds left and right.

Keeping things balanced. If you pan one guitar left, pan the other/something similar right. Usually pan things from 15-75% left or right. "Hard" panning (full Left or Right) is pretty uncommon in modern productions except as a deliberate effect.

EQ/Equalization - Changing the sounds frequency balance

Changing the amount of bass/middle/treble a sound has, either adding frequencies to enhance the sound or removing the frequencies that are unpleasant.

Compression - Turning down the loud peaks & turning up the quiet parts.

Compression can be used as a particular tool, to level out the loud and quiet parts of a song/performance/speech, or as a creative aesthetic tool for improve the quality of sounds by adding punch, thickness or clarity.

Listen to your heart