MIXING BEATS
Computer Music|October 2020
Getting your electronic beats mixed well together can make or break the backbone of your tune
MIXING BEATS

So far in this Electronic Beats special, we’ve shown you how to program great beats and select – or even create – the right sounds to use. While these are fundamental to creating great drum tracks, no matter how impressive your sequencing skills, poorly mixed beats will always fail to satisfy. This can be frustrating for the less technically inclined musician or producer, but getting big, clear-sounding drum mixes isn’t as complicated as you might imagine.

The golden rule is to give each element its own space in the mix. This can be done by manipulating frequency (with the help of equalizers or filters), stereo panorama (using mid/side utilities, reverb and auto-panner effects, among other things) or volume (via sidechain compression, gating and specialised dynamics processors such as Logic’s Enveloper or Cubase’s Envelope Shaper).

Getting your drums sounding right is of the utmost importance when you’re making dance music, and in the following walkthroughs, we’ll show you how these techniques can be used to transform some very raw drum tracks into professional sounding, club-ready beats. Of course, there’s no one-size-fits-all-genres approach to mixing, so we’ll be covering three different flavors of mixdown: a full-on drum ’n’ bass banger, a more chilled-out dubstep beat and a stripped-back minimal house groove.

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