Summary

For modern music production to sound polished and professional, mastering the use of mixing plugins is essential to getting your productions to a point of marketability. A producer can sculpt and shape individual tracks to fit together seamlessly in the mix by using EQ, compression, reverb, delay, panning, and level balancing plugins wisely, resulting in a coherent and dynamic overall sound. Each plugin has its own distinct features and functions, but they can all be creatively combined to produce the desired sonic result. You can develop the technical abilities and intuition necessary to use these tools to their full potential through practice, experimentation, and attentive listening, producing chart-topping mixes that stand out in the current competitive music industry. But as I said in this chapter, being a master at mixing is a whole different set of skills from being a master at producing. It’s possible to be great at both, but let engineers who spend their entire...