From the course: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1

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Customizing your own mix template

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Customizing your own mix template

- [Voiceover] Here we are, at the heart of the mix process, the mix template I've built. This is the product of years of refinements, and if you haven't built yours already, and are looking for some guidance, this might be a great place to start. Let's go left to right. Starting here at the very top of this window, Tracks, which is not showing here. These are a group of recording tracks, so you know how it is. You're doing a mix and the singer suddenly says "I gotta do that line over again." So I have myself some tracks to accommodate that. The first useful one that I have activated, is this piano instrument track. That's so that I can play the piano and figure out what key the song is in, if it's not given to me, in case I want to set a tuning program on an autotune. Alright, let's scroll down a little bit, you're going to see quite a number of tracks. I'm going to take my time to try go go through this template with you. The reason I have all of these tracks is so that I don't have…

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