How To Mix A Song From Scratch - Sweetening [Part 6 of 6]

Your mix isn’t finished until it’s been sweetened.

What does that mean? It means it’s time to take your solid mix and turn it into an engaging journey from start to finish.

We do this with strategic automation, arranging, and other tasty mix tricks to make every moment of the song exciting for the listener.

If most of mixing is getting your tracks to sound good in a snapshot of the song, this final step is about getting your tracks to sound good over the entire length of the song. Oh, and stay to the end of the video to catch a “before” and “after” mix example!

Thanks for watching this mixing series. I hope it’s been eye opening to you as we’ve taken raw tracks recorded with a modest $350 studio setup and systematically enhanced them to a more radio-ready state!

I’m curious to know – what of these six mixing steps has been the most interesting or helpful to you? Why? Leave a comment below and let me know!