Your usual steps when first mixing a song

[Andyhay]

start with the root

Where ever your song came from it would have been one simple idea start there and build around it , go with the flow there are no standard methods, only standard fukin tunes and standard studio engineers mixing standard ideas for standard exeptance.

If you start standard you will become standard and grow in a standard direction thats why standard staple ides always sound shit even if its mixed in the best hi tec and most standard expensive studio in the world

your end product will be ,well, whats the word im looking for ?

Just go for it and over time you will find your way

FUCK STANDARD.

 

[Kryptik]

I usually put up all the faders and run the mix through a distortion pedal for a few minutes. That way when I turn off the distortion pedal, everything sounds better than it did before and I'm not beating my self up so much about the crappy tracking job I just did.

 

[midwesttribune]

i produce peoples vocals so what i do for that is first look over the bare insturmental, and see the levels that are currently established. then i set the recording gain/input level so that im not hitting red, when recording. take multiple takes, and cut out the good areas of the vocal and make it one track. add a compressor so that its not real loud at parts an real soft in others, now it will sit nice onto the instrumental. Then eq in nessacary, and add adlibs, or other vocal effects, or plugins such as autotune, to finish the job.