Mixing and Mastering

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This book discusses the art of mixing and mastering. Currently a vast number of articles about this subject exist, but there is no unified source for all of these, and it is difficult to search for every single piece of information. With certain regularity articles pop up on forums or forum users lift the veil on what is usually seen as an arcane art. Forums get pruned and websites may lose their content, and therefore having a single editable persistent resource would be ideal to redirect people to.

Contents 1 The basics 2 Equalizing 3 Compression 4 Reverb/Spacial Placement 5 Complete tutorials

[edit] The basics

• Introduction
• Requirements

[edit] Equalizing

• Introduction
• Understanding EQ

[edit] Compression

• Introduction
• Singleband compression
• Multiband compression
• Sidechaining

[edit] Reverb/Spacial Placement

• Introduction
• Simple Delay

[edit] Complete tutorials

• Bass mixdown