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Monitoring when Mixing

Once your tracks are recorded, then you have to go about mixing the tracks - setting levels and applying effects across tracks and the entire mix.

I don’t recommend mixing by headphone, but some do. I do suggest getting a decent pair of monitors for this job. In my experience it’s harder to hear the mix accurately in headphones - and one of the goals is to create a mix that sounds consistent across many different audio systems. Good monitors can help in this.

Another reason I recommend monitors instead of headphones for mixing is that it’s easy to spend days mixing and re-mixing tracks and I don’t think you’ll want to do that by headphones unless you have too. Here are some popular monitor options you may want to consider.