Steem Monsters Music | Mixing Isaria's 'March of the Undead'

Hey friends! I told Isaria recently that I would start making videos during my mixing process to help her (and others) kind of get an idea of things to watch for when mixing a track. The plan was to go through a bunch of the awesome tracks that she's already made for Steem Monsters, and get them sounding coherent with the ones that I'm making as well. Truthfully this isn't always necessary, as I believe mixing is just as much of an art as the writing of music. Every individual has their own preferences and things they like to hear. But for the sake of the game, we're trying to keep them all relatively similar, and in the process of doing so, hopefully I can share some tips and tricks that I've learned along the way. Most of the great techniques I've picked up have been from other 'amateur' producers who are doing kinda the same thing I'm doing here.

Just as a disclaimer, I am not a traditionally trained audio engineer. I am constantly learning myself! But in sharing these things, I hope that it can bring someone in the earlier stages through some of the annoying growing pains.

Granted it's 2:30am here, I have to admit I was a bit all over the place at times! Not my most articulate of moments lol. Sometimes it's tricky to do your thing and also explain it as you go (ie. yeah, we'll save parallel compression for next time, forget I mentioned it), especially when you're a bit sleepy on top of it. But I hope that even just watching the order of operations alongside my rambling of mixing philosophy will get at least a point or two across.

I'm also happy to address any questions or anything I may have missed in the comments (or on Discord)! Get at me. Happy Saturday!