Great Mixes Come From Great Preparation

To my fellow mixers, musicians and music producers,

It's true that there's never been a better time to learn how music production and mixing.

Gear's affordable and accessible, and information is abundant.

But yet, so many of us struggle to get the results we want from our mixes.

Far too often, we jump into the mixing process without proper session preparation. Sometimes this is out of our control (during recording/tracking and production). However, there are always steps we can take to prepare the mix and ultimately get better results.

And so I wrote Preparing The Mix. 

Understanding the steps behind proper mix preparation will make the mixing process so much easier and save us great amounts of time in the long run. Great mixes sound great before the faders are ever pushed.

Having a prepared mix session ready to go allows us to focus entirely on mixing, rather than dividing our time between mixing and troubleshooting issues of editing, tuning, timing, phase, gain staging, and much more.

As they say "failing to prepare is preparing to fail!"

You'll get much better results when your mixing time becomes exclusively about mixing.

Great mixes are preceded by great songwriting, recording, and, of course, great mix preparation!