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We load up the magic buses to take a psychedelic rock mix on a fresh trip.
Unfinished business: our engineer reworks a track he produced several years ago, and finds he'd left himself with plenty more to do!
One of our engineers visits a reader's studio to help him bring the best out of his dubstep track.
Despite paying a studio to record and mix their album, Tommy Allen’s band weren’t keen on the result. Could our engineer do any better?
The Travis Waltons: How do you develop a mix strategy for a song when you don’t understand what the artist intends?
Our engineer works the mix to get a pop-funk track competing sonically with the likes of Jamiroquai.
Mixing strings in rock music: our engineer follows up last month's string‑recording session by describing how he integrated those strings into a full‑on rock mix.
Our tame mix engineer was asked to inject some dark, moody aggression into this month’s track. Read on to find out how he did it...
Technically speaking, working with a single-track recording may not be 'mixing', but a surprising amount of useful mixing‑style finessing can still be performed.
This month, as well as sorting out a few sonic gremlins, with edits, EQ and other tricks, we aim to draw out more of the ‘moments’ in a track.
This month, as well as revealing a few unusual tricks, our mix engineer demonstrates how to achieve power and clarity by focusing on the contrast between the sounds of different instruments.
By stepping back and taking stock, our engineer manages to rescue his own mix of guitars, bass and hurdy-gurdy for an Alt/Folk band!
In working to perfect a Bollywood mix, our engineer found that there were plenty of lessons that could be drawn from it and applied to mixes in most genres.
Programmed classical and film music demands convincing use of sample-based instruments. But how do you achieve this? Our engineer explains, as he takes on this month’s remix...
Audio files to accompany the article.
These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS December 2010.
This month, we figure out how to pack some much-needed punch into an interesting instrumental track.
We go off-beat this month, pitting our mixing skills against a reggae track.
It pays to keep your ears open for phase problems when mixing. Tackling them means you shouldn’t have to resort to radical EQ so often.
Once again, Mix Rescue finds that the arrangement and harmonic structure of the song makes it difficult to mix. But we get by... with a little help from our online friends!