While the issue of Audio Mixing no absolute net, we can find many tips and ways to get even decent product. The following article is a compilation of my class notes Recording Techniques Roberto Elias.
I hope it will be useful
AUDIO MIX
1. Preparation, having already heard many times the dime in question and know almost by heart what is in each track prepares your mixer:
a) Faders U (unit)
b) Pan Center
c) All tracks on Mute, as initiated from the sounds more
strong to the weak of the song, one by one and desmuteando
mixing.
2. EQ. The mixture is in the EQ. A parametric equalizer 2 to 8 bands per audio track in the mix will be very useful (as insert effect)
What is sought with the EQ is:
a) Highlight the characteristic frequencies of the timbre of the instrument,
what sets it apart from others.
b) Each instrument has its place in the harmonic spectrum.
If an instrument is being lost in the mix, what we hear is what makes it different.
We can find 2 or 3 or more frequency bands depending on the complexity of timbre.
Overall an instrument has 3 sets of characteristic frequencies:
1. First we will find the fundamental group
2. Second wealth group where this ring
3. Third group which is the attack of the instrument.
These groups often form bands that are specific to the instrument, performans performer, and can vary even within the same instrument played by two different people.
As you can see the entire weight of the mixture is in the EQ. A tip to find that band are looking to sweep with a bandpass filter and a Q (bandwidth) of 1.0, about 9 or 12db (using the parametric EQ) and once you find it move bandwidth if necessary.
What you doing this instrument by instrument, take off mute, EQ, take off mute,
equalize, and the strongest to weakest.
3. Pan. Since you finished Equalize, let's put our space Horizontal
instruments. What is sought is not symmetrical balance in frequency.
Not everything has to be necessarily paneado, the usually serious instrument
placed at the center since the bass are spread more easily than the treble. The
pitched sounds, given that they are more directional, it is easier to locate them in space
Horizontal, so if we have two guitars should panearlas and keys and
dishes.
It may happen that at the end of pan find that one side is stronger than another,
although the Master Meters will indicate that both speakers is unbalanced, this
could be because you have a higher frequency side than the other (which is stronger
has more high frequencies). Check your pan.
4 Putting it all on planes.
Reverb is now the space. The Reverb effect is usually placed as shipping and pre-fader, this is to have more control over the ratio of direct sound and reverb sound ... we do want to send away the instrument over
him to the Reverb and down the fader of the instrument.
Not all instruments of our mix must have Reverb.
5. At this stage we can put style effects (PHAC, Chourus, Flanger, Reverb
style, compression, etc..) but also can be placed before starting the mix.
