Blog 15: Reflection on my Methodology for research and creative process.

Over the course of the series of blog posts, whether that be about the technical process of mixing music and then the reflections about my own personal mixdown. Ontop of that in this blog I will also underline my personal methodology for mixing down audio but how it is very unique to me. There are

Blog 14: Reflection on Drum Mixing.

As a creative process, drum mixing can be a complicated process because of the various complications that it can cause to the mixing process due to several factors. Though the reason for this particular blog is that it combines all the technical blogs from before into being able to apply my research about compression, equalization,

Blog 13: How to keep safe whilst mixing music.

The reason for this blog is the fact that even though mixing is a fun activity to puruse for hours on end, there are serious draw backs that can occur if you do constantly listen to your mix that may make you cause your own mix problems because you have just continuously listened to the

Blog 12: Panning.

Panning serves an important part of a song, whether that be either that music in mono or stereo. Creatively panning is a liscence to go out and experiment with positioning to create the stereo field. Reflecting on how I personally use panning will be able to give me an idea how to potentially improve upon

Blog 11: How Mixing has changed through the ages? A reflection on the past.

Audio mixing has changed incredibly from the analogue to now the digital age because of the change in technology from mixing down on tape, then into mixing on an analogue mix desk. Finally, to the modern day technology where we can mixdown a track just using a laptop. My personal preference to mixdown a track

Blog 10: Reflection

Upon reflection, mixing audio can vary from mixng for commercial consumers, or a specialised audience. Mixing is an all encompassing and a vital component within the structure of making a track. In my opinion, Mixing is the second most important part within that process. However, what I have learnt is that from the previous research

Blog 9: Surround Sound Mixing.

On a tangent from the actual blogs about what goes into mixing down a commerically released track, is that during my undergraduate degree, we had a task to record then mix down an advert in logic however what was different about that specific task was we got asked to mix down the track in 5.1

Blog 8: Adding Effects

Adding Effects into a mix is potentially one of the last steps that you would do as a mix engineer. What effects are trying to add to a mix is either a creative signature or depth to the track itself, whether it be through adding reverbs to modulation to delays. Reading through a chapter in

Blog 7: Choosing the right DAW

Choosing the right DAW, is an important part of mixing because each DAW itself has nuances and quirks that only apply to that certain DAW. Another reason to why it is important is for human factors such as how comfortable and familiar you are to each DAW. Reading a chapter in a book about choosing

Blog 6: A reflection on the blog so far and disecting and evaluating one of my track mixes

In this post, I am going to refelct upon what already I have learnt myself from writing the blog posts another part to this blog post will be diseccting and making critical evaluations upon what I can improve on one of my tracks I have mixed myself. What I have learnt so far from the