Other considerations

Here are some final thoughts I will share with you about mixing. As promised, I did not teach you to mix because I can't. It takes a lot of practice.

A mix will always sound somewhat different on different playback systems, but the intention is to create one that sounds good on as many as is possible, which is often referred to as how a mix translates.

The following factors will affect your ability to create a mix that you know will sound good on other systems:

• Your room.
• Your studio monitors (speakers, not computer displays).
• Your other playback options.

If you do not have a room that has been acoustically treated, and most of us don't, bass frequencies can get trapped, so you don't get an accurate bass level for translation. There are a number of solutions:

• Buy some acoustic panels and set them up. There are a lot of tutorials on how to do this on the internet.
• Buy room correction software that is designed...