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    Lotus Tunes Mixing Cheat Sheet

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    Mixing Tips - Cheat Sheet

    1. Session Structure:

    • Reduce Visual Clutter and Group together instruments and tracks by category

    2. Levelling:

    • Set your audio interface to a comfortable volume

    • Reset Your Levels in your DAW to -inf on each individual track

    • Start Levelling by Priority -> Kick,Bass -> Shakers,Percs -> Melodics (close your
    eyes and mix by feel) This is what we call a rough mix

    • If a sound is too quiet increase it’s input gain

    3. Main Processing

    • Apply Cleanup Equalisation (Lowcut the channels that don’t need any low-end
    frequencies)

    • Split Your Frequencies with EQ

    • Apply Panning - Most Importantly: Drums. Where do you want your elements to
    sit in terms of their placement. Mono-Stereo Comparison. (Bass = Mono - High
    Percs = Sides)

    • Setup your Sidechain Compression

    4. Creative Processing

    • Send and Return = Great for saving CPU and a cohesive sound

    • Applying FX directly to your track = more of a sound design thing

    • Reverb / Room - How big is your room? Where do you want your elements to sit
    in the room (do you want to make it feel large or small, which elements do you
    want in background / foreground)? -> Return Channels are great.

    • Delay - Make your track more rhythmic or more present in the mix

    5. Reset Kick

    • Pull Kick Back to -inf and mix it back in (close eyes while doing so)

    • You can repeat the above step as many times as you’d like

    • Try the LowMid Pulteq EQ Trick

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    6. Group Processing:

    • Compression (Tame Peaks + Multiband like Soothe, Fab lter MB, Gulfoss EQ,
    Split EQ)

    • Equalisation: Take a look at Your Frequency Curve while mixing groups together.
    Voxengo Span is great for visual reference.

    7. Save and Redo Mix

    • Save your Project, export the current mix and redo the mix

    • You may repeat this process and practice as many times as you’d like.

    • Bounce out your favourite mixes and compare which one you like the most.

    8. A great mix = a great master

    • The more time you spend on the mix, the less work you’ll have to do in the master.

    • During Mastering you should essentially just increate the volume of the track to
    obtain optimal LUFS. Remember to control your peaks in the mix! You don’t
    want your limiter to have to work hard during Mastering.

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