Once the basic tracking has been laid, you move onto final tracking, Mixing, and finally the Mastering. Final tracking is where you add dub guitars, audio clips, tambourines or shakers and then finally vocals are recorded and integrated. Mixing is when the mixer adjusts what the listener will actually hear from their stereo, bringing it to record quality. They are adjusting levels here and EQing (equalizing). All tracks are added onto one stereo track: Left and Right. Compressing is the last task, you’re regulating volumes so you can hear everything, softer sounds just as well as the loud.
Here are levels, notice all are in the green...
For Mixing and Mastering it is best to have separate people, fresh sets of ears. Some bands even go to entirely different recording studios. Mastering is tedious; here you mess with song order, gaps between fades, song fades and take a final EQ.
If everything is a go, the record is written.
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