ONE ESSENTIAL MIXING TIP… EQ your master bus
“One thing I always do from the start of the track is put an EQ on the master bus with a little boost at the bottom end and a little boost at the top – a kind of smiley curve. You have to be careful what EQ you use for that; it needs to be really high quality otherwise it’s just going to degrade the sound.
“I use the UAD Massenburg MDW-EQ. I feel like that’s mastering grade. I’ll boost a low shelf at around 60Hz, which adds more weight, then the top between 16kHz and 20kHz, just to add a bit more excitement. If you compare your track to stuff on Spotify or Apple Music, you’ll likely notice your unmastered track is lacking in high end. I’ll leave a lot of that to the mastering engineers, but while I’m mixing it helps me get the track a little bit closer to that polished sound.”