Good Mix to GREAT Mix | “Fix My Mix” with Richard Chycki

Feb 24, 2021 | 36,828 Views

Ever wondered how your song would sound if a Grammy-winning engineer mixed it? Watch as Richard Chycki (Rush, Aerosmith) takes a lucky Waves user’s production and shows how he turns a good mix into a GREAT one.

00:00 Introduction
02:26 The original mix: What’s good vs. What to fix
04:56 A/B the original mix vs. Richard Chycki’s mix
06:04 Re-shaping drum tonality with EQ and compression
12:52 Mixing drum samples with recorded drums
14:45 Re-mixing the drums: Adding attack; adding width; drum routing; rear bus compression
27:10 Subtractive EQ tips
30:04 Re-mixing the vocals: Changing chain order; stacking de-essers and compressors
36:03 Making the vocals bigger
44:07 How to get the right perspective when mixing your own music

Music: “Labyrinth” by Strange Vacation
Written by Jon-Paul Bakaric and Joshua Waldorf
From the EP Chapter II: Labyrinth

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