YOUR MIX SUCKS by Marc Mozart: Waves Edition
Learn a Complete Mixing Method
Covering the Entire Mixing Process
You have Waves plugins—now, discover how to use them to fine-tune your productions. Marc Mozart has mixed projects for Lil Wayne, DMX, Busta Rhymes, and many more—now, he teaches his favorite mixing techniques, based around Waves plugins.
This comprehensive e-book presents a complete methodology of mixing—from preparation to delivery—that covers the technical, artistic, and personal aspects of mixing. It’s a must-have.
A Treasure Trove of Practical Knowledge
Start Your Mix with the Fundamentals
Set up your speakers, room, add bass traps, and tune your basic room acoustics. Then, find out how to manage all the elements of your mix, and prepare for the mixing process, before you even start moving the faders.
Transform Your Tracks
Shape drums and bass to create a solid foundation, do drum replacement if needed, use proper gain-staging to avoid distortion, and build a lead vocal chain to highlight the most important part of any mix—the vocals.
Add the Right Sonic Spices
You’ll find out how to obtain the best results from EQ and dynamics, apply parallel processing theories to practical use, and add dimension and depth to your productions with ambient processing like reverb.
Finish with a Flourish
Add final touches with automation, to create the ideal mix. Learn about the magic of the stereo bus, and the best plugins for processing the final mix. Print stems, master, and archive—then deliver your music.
Download Free Chapters
Want to try before you buy? Download the free Chapter 6: It’s All About the Vocals and Chapter 9: A Different Look at Compressors
- 1. Monitoring, Loudness Your Ears
- 1.1 Steal Mom’s Kitchen Radio
- 1.2 From Small Window to Magnifying Glass
- 1.3 Listening Levels
- 1.4 Switching Speakers
- 2. Creating the “Good Enough” Mix Room
- 2.1 Room Acoustics – Ghetto Style
- 2.2 Speaker Setup, Absorbers Bass Traps
- 2.3 Improving the Low End of Your Room
- 2.4 The 10-Minute Room Test
- 3. reparing Your Mix Session
- 3.1 Micro- Macro-Management of Your Mix
- 3.2 Importing the Files
- 3.3 The concept of “Handles”
- 3.4 References and A/Bing
- 4. The Magic of the 1st Listen
- 4.1 The 1st Listen Experience
- 4.2 Mixing for Someone Else
- 4.3 Emotional Analytical Listening
- 4.4 Mixing Your Own Song
- 5. Foundations: Kick, Bass Gain Staging
- 5.1 Low End Analysis and Balance
- 5.2 Shaping Kicks, Mixing Bass
- 5.3 Drum Replacement
- 5.4 Gain Staging
- 6. It’s All About the Vocals
- 6.1 A Quick Excursion into Vocal Recording
- 6.2 Building the Lead Vocal Chain
- 6.3 Parallel Compression
- 6.4 Vox Against the World
- 7. Continuity
- 7.1 Correcting Levels Pre-Plugin Chain
- 7.2 Careful Limiting
- 7.3 Nulling Your Faders
- 8. Parallel Processing
- 8.1 The Theory Behind Parallel Processin
- 8.2 The Philosophical Dimension
- 8.3 Parallel Processing on Vocals and Drums
- 8.4 Parallel Processing Plugins
- 9. Colors Dynamics
- 9.1 EQ-ing and EQ-Plugins
- 9.2 A Different Look at Compressors
- 9.3 Compressor-Plugins
- 9.4 Tape Saturation, Mic Pres and Magic Chains
- 10. Dimension Reverb Culture
- 10.1 Reverb History
- 10.2 A 3-Dimensional Mix
- 10.3 Flavors of Delays
- 10.4 Modulation, Subgroups, FX-Busses and Routing
- 11. Automation Stereo Bus Magic
- 11.1 Automation
- 11.2 Stereo Bus Magic
- 11.3 Loudness Meter
- 11.4 Useful Mix Bus Plugins
- 12. Stems, Mastering Delivery
- 12.1 Feedback
- 12.2 Printing Stems Archiving
- 12.3 Mastering
- 12.4 UDelivery
- 13. Bonus I: SSL Consoles – History & Typology
- 13.1 Overview
- 13.2 History
- 13.3 Today
- 13.4 Resources