Mixing: Technical Guidelines, Part 1

Every composer would like to have the services of a fully qualified score mixing engineer on every project. You would, wouldn’t you? (Insert picture of smiling Score Engineer, like the one in my mirror.) As any specialist, he or she would bring a wealth of knowledge and experience that would make your life easier and your score sound better and more competitive. But – – welcome to the real world – – I realize it doesn’t always work out that way. For reasons of budget and expediency a composer is often called on to record, mix, and submit a finished score on his or her own. As each composer must own the computers and other…