Top Down Mixing is by far one of the easiest and quickest ways to get your mixes sounding the way you want as quickly as possible.
Here are the three biggest benefits of using the Top Down Mixing approach:
- You use a lot less plugins
- You save on processing power
- You mix a lot quicker
But I’ve noticed one problem with how the concept is used and this video will explain what I mean and help you improve your workflow, fast!
Do you use Top Down Mixing?
Leave a comment below and let me know how it’s helped you…
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Hi Stephen,
Nice approach!
I’ve tried topdown mixing for a while. It did not feel right for me somehow. I went back to bottomup. No compression on the master bus at mixing. I try to ‘glue’ the elements in the mixing process itself, often by using submixes. Then, in the final stage, I apply some mastering ‘superglue’.
Thanks Marcel! Sounds like you know what works for you. There’s no right or wrong way – especially if what you’re doing sounds good.
I set my tracks and mix up like you showed as far as stereo buss and sub mix on top. Then My “all instruments” aux , “all drums” , “all vox” . Then my instrument tracks with fx aux for each instrument and vocal tracks. like so:
Rhythm guitar tracks immediately followed by gt fx. Lead guitar tracks >ldgt fx ,Bass>bassfx , vox , kick, snare ,toms ,hi hat, room, over head. I like to keep my fx processing tracks close to the tracks that they’re processing. So my fx aux are directly after each track that they’re processing. Works for me:)
Sounds like a great setup Dana!