Music Mixing Category

How to pan acoustic or electric guitar in the mix?

In mixing session, it is important to correctly pan guitar in the mix. Panning is all about assigning a location in the stereo field with left to right user perspective (including center). Read this introductory guide on panning instruments in a mix. I …

How to Mix Baritone Guitar: Tips and Techniques

Baritone guitar frequencies sit between a standard guitar and a bass guitar. A lot of newbies rock guitarist doesn’t know this even exist, it is because it exactly looks like a standard guitar. This type of guitar is commonly used in alternative, hard …

Guitar EQ Mixing for rock, country and pop

One of the most important instruments for producing rock, pop and country music are guitars. In fact, a band alone can be formed by just having guitars, drums and bass (for example it can become “legendary” like Led Zeppelin). Because of this importanc …

Why you should not mix using headphones?

Audio mixing is sometimes misleading newbies into using headphones to mix their projects. It is because they always see pictures of studio personnel using headphones as they might think these engineers are actually using headphones in audio mixing the …

Fast Fourier Transform to View Audio Frequency Spectrum

If you are dealing with frequency analysis of the audio wave “quantitatively”, one of the best tools I have learned in my signals/engineering class is FFT or Fast Fourier Transform. It is an algorithm to compute the Fourier transform equivalent of a ti …