Don't make these three stupid mixing mistakes...

Published: Fri, 10/19/18

I've made a lot of mistakes throughout the years.

I still cringe just thinking about them, especially the ones that happened in public. Doing something stupid is embarrassing enough, but involving a group of people makes it even worse.

I don't know if that's ever happened to you but it's a 100 times worse if you make a mistake in public.

Take something as trivial as tripping over something. If nobody's watching it doesn't matter to you at all. But if you trip all over yourself in a public, you might as well do your best Kitty Pryde impersonation and try to phase through the floor. (That's an X-Men reference in case you didn't catch it...)

I've made some stupid mistakes with my mixes as well. Luckily, you can get away with a few stupid mixing mistakes because you can fix them rather quickly, without exposing your stupidness to the world.

Here are a few mixing mistakes I've made throughout the years. Make sure you learn from my mistakes instead of making your own:

Compressor on LOUD - This stupid mistake I've made one too many few times. If you make things louder they automatically sound better to your ears, so a compressor with the gain up will make you think it sounds better.

Even if the compressor isn't even working because the threshold is too low. Watch the gain reduction meter to see if it's actually working. Because sometimes it can just be that extra volume that's fooling you.

Send Processing - One time I sent all of my guitars to an aux track so I could process them all together. Then I was confused why my EQ didn't really take all the mud and bass away.

It was because the original signals were still happily playing away on their original tracks. My EQ didn't do anything to the original because I hadn't routed them, I only created copies. Man I felt like an idiot when I figured that out.

No Phase-Check - This one mix a while ago had really hard-hitting drums. I spent a lot of time on the drum mix, trying to get everything as powerful as possible but the snare didn't have enough punch. It was double-miked and I didn't realize that the under-snare was out of phase.

As soon as I saw that I flipped the phase and boom! All the thickness came slamming back onto the snare sound. That's one mistake that's easy to overlook but makes all the difference to your sound.

These are just some of the mistakes that I've made. I'm sure there are many more I didn't even realize I was making.

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P.S.

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