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Audio Mixing Workflow

The document outlines a 19 step workflow for audio mixing, beginning with laying down instrument and vocal tracks, applying effects like autotune and equalization to individual tracks, mixing drums by balancing volumes, adding reverb and compression, then creating bus tracks to route different instrument classifications and applying further effects before final balancing and export.

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Audio Mixing Workflow

The document outlines a 19 step workflow for audio mixing, beginning with laying down instrument and vocal tracks, applying effects like autotune and equalization to individual tracks, mixing drums by balancing volumes, adding reverb and compression, then creating bus tracks to route different instrument classifications and applying further effects before final balancing and export.

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Step By Step Audio Mixing Workflow

1) Lay in all the trax ( Instruments and Vocals )


2) Auto-tune the vocals ( Lead & Back-up vox )
3) Equalize all the trax ( Instruments & Vocals )
4) Add compression on individual track
5) Mix the drum trax
1) Balance the volume
2) Create a Drum Reverb with an added equalizer
3) Add reverb to each drum track by sending it to drum reverb
( Click the post fader )
4) Create a clean drum track by adding a new aux track
5) Output all drum trax and drum reverb to the clean drum track
6) Create a parallel compression drum track by adding a new aux
track
7) Send the Kick and Snare ( Pre-Fader ) to the PC track
8) Add compressor to the PC Drum track ( attack:00, release:400,
ratio:00 )
9) Add a tube saturation to the PC track
10) Output the PC track and Clean Drum track to a Drum Bus
6) Create a PC Bass track by adding a new aux track
1) Add compressor to the PC Bass track ( attack:00, release:400,
ratio:00 )
7) Side-chain the Kick and PC Bass Track
1) Add another compressor to the PC Bass track
2) Send the Kick to the PC bass track ( Post-fader )
3) Check the side-input to PC track in the send menu
8) Create a new aux track for vox reverb with added equalizer and
compressor
( Copy the settings from previously mixed audio )
1) Send the lead vox to the reverb
9) Create a new aux track for PC lead vox track
1) Send the Lead Vox to the PC Lead Vox track ( post-fader )
2)Add compressor to the PC Lead vox track ( attack:00,
release:400, ratio:00 )
10) Create a Bus Track for Lead Vox
11) Add DEESSER fx for lead and back-up vocals
12) Create the following BUS track and route each instruments
classification
1) Drum Bus
2) Bass Bus
3) Guitar Bus ( separate the lead guitar from rhythm guitar )
4) Lead Vox Bus
5) Back-up Vox Bus
6) Piano Bus
7) Synth Bus
8) Ambience Reverb Bus
9) Room Reverb Bus
10) Delay Bus
11) PC Mix Bus
13) Send instruments and vocals ( Post-fader ) to ambience reverb that
you want to hear in front of the mix
1) Drums 2) Bass 3) Lead Vox 4) Lead Instruments
14) Send instruments and vocals ( Post-fader ) to room reverb that you
want to hear in the back of the mix
1) Piano 2) Rhythm Guitar 3) Back-Up vox 4 ) String Section 3) Brass
Section
15 ) Send the vocals to the delay bus
16 ) Send the piano, rhythm guitar, lead vox, back-up vox and solo
instruments to the PC Mix
17) Add compressor to the back-up bus track
18) Finish your final balancing in the bus trax
19) Export the audio into a wav file for Mastering

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