In the last 15 years of working in the audio industry and helping thousands of musicians and engineers create great music from their home studio, I've seen every mistake in the book.
Here's one of the biggest.
Honestly, if your mixes don't sound as loud and competitive as your reference tracks and the pro records you love, you're probably making this same mistake.
Whenever I listen back to my old mixes I hear this same mistake.
Even though the mixes sounded fine, something felt off.
That's when I realized...
I had to turn up the volume so much I was almost maxing out the volume on my
interface!
That meant my mix was almost 50% quieter than any of the professional records I listened to.
Yikes...so if my mix had come on after a professional record, you could've hardly heard it!
So what was the difference there?
One word: Mastering.
My mix wasn't loud enough because it wasn't
mastered up to professional standards.
So if you're not mastering your mixes, they won't feel professional enough next to pro records because they're not loud enough.
Your mixes probably sound decent enough
already. I know from experience, both from working on mixes and helping students improve theirs, that there are a million different ways to mix a song.
But there's only one way to make them sound like a professional record, and if you don't know how to make your mix loud enough to compete, it doesn't matter if you actually mixed your song a
million times.
It still won't be enough.
You'll still be missing the final ingredient: Mastering.
Even if you already know that mastering is the key to taking your mixes and making them into professional and punchy records, you may be asking yourself:
- "How do I use all these plug-ins to master my mixes?"
- "How do I make them loud enough so I can feel confident in releasing my songs?"
- "How do I make sure my
clients don't think that my mixes are weak when I send them a test mix?"
That's what I show you inside Master Your Mixes and this week it's on sale for 50% off!
If you want to take your mixes and transform them into mastered records that sound loud AND dynamic, Master Your Mixes will show you how.
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Enjoy,
Björgvin