Hey everyone, I was wondering if any experienced audio engineers could give me some pointers. So I am a recording artist with a limited fund and have been self teaching myself how to engineer with a limited setup, (mac book, Logic Pro X, Audio Technica AT2020, and Focusrite Scarlett Solo) over the years I have progressed but I can tell that something is missing in my mixed. My question is basically what techniques would you recommend to achieve an at least decent mix, the type achieved in a 1-2 hour session where the artist cant afford additional mixing but still wants as much of a mix as you can put on it at the moment? I'd be happy to drop links if I need to. Thank you in advance.⚡

Now go out there a win me some grammy's boy

just pay someone to mix ur s***

Well first don't mix on headphones

Didn't Party mix PND1 all in Beats headphones? He did pretty alright. You just gotta test all environments after.

yeah but thats a special case. If your in a low noise environment u should be good, idk where he was when he was mixing that album but its not mixed very well. Bare minimum would making your levels r good

I'm just saying, if you can't afford monitors, and all you got is headphones you can make it work. You think pnd1 had poor mixing? I'm not saying it's outstanding but it's definitely sufficient.

Here come the nerds telling u to pay a nerd instead of learning something and how u shouldn’t trust the techniques of professionals

At least the first response actually tried to help.

No.

There are no rules for mixing

Its all about the sound you wanna make

But since you wanna sound professional u should try mixing with using all the devices u got

not mixing and ripping the audio straight to audacity is the future

Ppl depend on the past to contextualize the future too much, me included. Future hidden in plain sight of the present.

my mixing process is to keep tweaking reuploading the beat about 100 times to keep testing how it sounds in the whip til it’s perfect

nah u should def learn

If you’ve never mixed a track before it’s not gonna sound good

Thanks for this video

Here are good videos for you to learn mixing

This is facts. Make 2 copies of the OG track and set them as mono tracks one for L and one for R. Then drop some delay on them and a lil autotune and reverb over the main track and lower the other two tracks so you just hear the delay. Then add in your lil ad lib track if you want and lower that too. All done

thats true "there are no rules to mixing", but headphones usually aren't ideal

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