This morning I spent about three hours mixing our bass and drum tracks that we have for “Fall In Love”, “One Plus One”, and “Leave Me Out Of It”. Using the process I learned at TBeats, I start by adding a compressor to each track to give it a little extra sound. If you get it too loud, the track will clip which creates a crackle. Next I add two one band EQs, one to cut off the highs and one to cut off the lows. Unless I’m trying to get a special effect, usually I just want to cut out the frequencies that I can’t hear but are still taking up space in the mix. Then if there are any frequencies that I want to feature or take out I use a seven band EQ and basically just sweep through it until I find something that I like or dislike. After doing this for each track, I send them to a bus which is basically a control track. For example, if I have five different drum tracks, I can send them to a bus and control the volume of the drums from just one track. Eventually once the mix is finished, every track should be sent to a bus and all of the buses sent to the master fader.