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Defining Characteristics Of Great Vs Amateur Mixes In The Studio
Eliminate the seven characteristics of an amateur mix and you’ll be surprised just how good your song can sound.
By Bobby Owsinski • Posted in Reading Room on August 10, 2018

As the author of a best selling mixing book (The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook), I’m frequently asked to review mixes. And while many are remarkable and are a display of great talent, there does exist a category of mixes that, for want of a better term, you could call “amateur.”

An amateur mix usually means that you’ve not spent enough time listening and learning, but when you can’t determine why a mix sounds great, the next best thing is to determine when you have something that’s, shall we say, less than great. So here are the seven characteristics of an amateur mix.

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