tailieunhanh - Guide to Mixing v1.0Nick Thomas February 8, 2009.

This document is a guide to the essential ideas of audio mixing, targeted specifically at computer-based producers. I am writing it because I haven’t been able to find anything similar freely available on the Internet. The Internet has an incredible wealth of information on this subject, but it is scattered across a disorganized body of articles and tutorials of varying quality and reliability. My aim is to consolidate all of the most important information in one place, all of it verified and fact-checked. This guide will not tell you about micing techniques or how to track vocals or what frequency. | Guide to Mixing Nick Thomas February 8 2009 This document is a guide to the essential ideas of audio mixing targeted specifically at computer-based producers. I am writing it because I haven t been able to find anything similar freely available on the Internet. The Internet has an incredible wealth of information on this subject but it is scattered across a disorganized body of articles and tutorials of varying quality and reliability. My aim is to consolidate all of the most important information in one place all of it verified and fact-checked. This guide will not tell you about micing techniques or how to track vocals or what frequency to boost to make your guitars really kick. There s plenty of stuff written already on mixing live-band music. This guide is specifically for computer-based electronic musicians and so it is tailored to their needs. On the other hand this guide does not assume that you are making club-oriented dance music. Certainly the advice in here is applicable to mixing electro house or hip-hop but it is equally applicable to mixing ambient or On the other hand dance music does pose special mixing challenges such as the tuning of percussion tracks and the achievement of loudness and these challenges are given adequate time since they are relevant to many readers. In this document I assume only very basic prior knowledge of the concepts of mixing. You should know your way around your DAW. You should know what a mixer is and what an effect is and how to use them. You should probably have at least heard of equalization compression and reverb. You should have done some mixdowns for yourself so that you have the flavor of how the whole process works. But that s really all you need to know at this point. I do not claim to be an expert on any of this material. I have however had this guide peer-reviewed by a number of people many of them more knowl-edgable about mixing than I. Therefore I think it s fair to say that at the very least it .