15 Pro Engineer Mix Tips Every Producer Should Know | LANDR

Senior LANDR Audio Engineer Al Isler sat down to share his 15 most useful mix tips for producers and mix engineers of all levels.

He shares his thoughts on routing, gain staging, mix philosophy and more in his 15 essential mix tips:

1. Use mix automation - 00:00
2. Explore the joys of parallel compression - 01:09
3. EQ your sends and returns to create space - 01:43
4. How to use limiting properly - 02:37
5. Use sidechain when compressing your mix bus - 04:40
6. When to dither - 05:54
7. Perspective, vision and headspace - 06:53
8. Take frequent breaks - 07:10
9. Add depth to your mix - 07:46
10. Anchor your vocals with delay - 08:21
11. Add space using the haas effect - 08:51
12. Edit your session cleanly - 09:26
13. Leave room for your reverb tails - 09:58
14. Always A/B your decisions - 10:37
15. Remove noise in a natural way - 12:09
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Questions about your own mixes? Send them to askanengineer@landr.com for a chance to have your question answered the next time Al reaches into the mailbag:


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