How to Mix Music

Video Transcript

"FREDERICK BURCHELL: Hello. My name is Frederick "Ricky B." Burchell with B4 Entertainment on behalf of Expert Village, and today we're going to talk about producing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing your independent CD. All right. Now let's talk about mixing your record. Now, I told you before, when you record, you want to record as quick as possible, but when you mix in a record, that's the opposite thing. You want to take your time when you're mixing your record. Make sure everything that you hear is the way you wanted to hear. And what's you want to do is when you're mixing a record, always play it, at least, two times then come back and mix it. Take the record, listen to it, record it, do your mix, listen to it, take it in your car, take it in a system that you're familiar with and listen to it. If everything's sounds good then, then you got a good mix, but if something doesn't sound right, always go back, save your mixes, go back and say, "Okay, I want to tweak this. I want to tweak the hi-hat. I want to tweak the bass kit." You work it at least two times, go back and listen to your mixes, just make sure everything's right on the mix. With mixing, you want to take your time on a mix because mixing is so important when you're recording. Hey, you don't want to rush recording but sometimes you going to have to get in and get out so you don't waste all your money. If you want to spend a lot of your money, most of your money should be going towards mixing more so than just recording. When you get to the studio, you should it have it down pat. So take your time, mix, listen to it one time, take it to a system that you hear and you're familiar with then come back--take your notes and then come back and make the adjustments from there. Take your time with mixing."