The Perfect Mix: with notes on Mastering in the Software Recording Studio

There are many ways to get your songs to final form. Lets assume, for this article, final form means a beautifully polished piece of music in 16 bit 44.1 khz digital audio (i.e., the “red book” cd audio standard) or a standard wave file. You need to start, of course, with a fully or almost finished song. This is the point where the writing ends and the TweakMeistering begins. I’m going to give you some hard earned tips on Mixing and Mastering in the old analog style.