How To Gain Stage Your Mix


How To Gain Stage Your Mix:⠀
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1. Load up a gain plugin at the top of any tracks peaking above -6dBFS.⠀
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2. Put a VU meter at the beginning of your stereo output and calibrate it to -18dBFS⠀
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3. Solo the loud tracks one by one and play them around the loud points in the song.⠀
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4. Turn the volume of the gain plugin up or down until the volume of the track is around 0dB on the VU meter. That is the analogue sweet spot.⠀
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5. If you're using instrument busses make sure you repeat the process with each bus once you've done your volume balancing.⠀
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6. Find any channels that are peaking below -30dBFS and repeat steps 1-5, this time turning the channels up instead of down.⠀
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Note that you should do this before you start inserting other plugins and effects on your channels.⠀
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For more awesome mixing info check out this blog post from @musicianonamission: https://www.musicianonamission.com/mixing-music/⠀
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