Mixing For the Club

A few essential tools and techniques can help your tracks stand out on any system. Here’s how

Make the leap from studio to dancefloor – everything from stereo and mono optimisation to perfecting builds

In today’s world of uber-polished productions, mixing is one of the most difficult skills to perfect. Of course, we all want our dancefloor bangers to elicit a visceral response from a crowd, and sonically stand up when played side-by-side against the loudest, brightest, punchiest tunes out there.

Yet it’s extremely common for a ‘bedroom’ mixdown to fall a little flat when magnified through a club’s mega soundsystem – the perceived clarity, depth and weight that you carefully honed in the studio often just doesn’t translate as perfectly as you’d like when it’s on such a massive scale.

Mixing homemade tracks for the club doesn’t have to be a haphazard process, however: arm yourself with the know-how and techniques, and you’ll increase the consistency of your mixdowns – no matter your studio setup or monitoring environment – to ensure those tracks translate across larger listening environments and systems.

And seeing as electronic music is now a mainstay of radio charts and Spotify playlists, mixing for ‘the club’ is really just, well, mixing for the modern age…