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Saturation, Harmonics, Clipping | Create Headroom for Louder Mixes

Mixing Music | Music Production, Audio Engineering, & Music Business

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How to Make a Caterpillar Mix

Tegler: A common mistake is that if you print a mix from a lesser experienced engineer and they don't use enough compression, saturation, clipping, distortion. You want to compensate for that by actually removing transients and thoughtfully creating more headroom on individual tracks. Compression at the end doesn't always make a mix sound better; it depends on the genre.

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