Superstar Car Wash Pre-Mixing Cuts (1992)

As many of you already know, years ago a series of “Superstar Car Wash” demo sessions leaked online. One of those leaks included Pre-Mixing Cuts of the final songs which ended up in the album. What is a pre-mixing cut? Let’s have the experts talk about it for a minute. The information below was taken from this source.

Although most people won’t notice it, when done right, it turns a song it into something better. Mixing is more than adjusting the volume levels of vocal tracks and individual instruments. Even though there are other parts of mixing, what is audio mixing in music and why is it important?

Audio Mixing is a process of blending individual things in a recording to come up with as good as a possible version of a song. The mixing process includes:

  • Fine-tuning the sense or sound of each instrument using and EQ (equalization)
  • Balancing pre-recorded track levels
  • Panning tracks between speakers to come up with a stereo image
  • Compression, Adding reverb and other effects, improve the already recorded song.
  • Taking your song from Good to GREAT!
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