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Mixing Dance Tracks: What is mixing

Mixing music is really an art. If you think that it is just setting some faders, volume and setting the left/right of each audio channel you have a lot to learn.

Take a look at this next image.

This shows the three instruments and the end result as an example:

1 vocals/singers
2 a bass
3 drums
4 the end result (what we want it to be)

When we look at this simple example you can immediately see what mixing is about.
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