At PPWP Recording Studio mixing audio tracks in Pro Tools is the next stage after the recording process has been completed. We take all the recorded tracks mono, stereo, auxiliary channels and send them to the Stereo buss to be exported as a stereo wav. File. The mixing process is the balancing of the recorded audio levels, panning within the stereo field and the art of adding Eq, compression and effects. Eq is used to adjust the frequency of a given track compression is used to control the dynamics / level of an instrument. Effects such as delay, reverb, flange, chorus, are used to add depth and general sweetening to the audio track. Mixing is a very detailed task as every adjustment tends to affect other instrument's that is why soloing a certain track and tweaking Eq and compression settings for too long without hearing how the track sits in the whole mix can be futile. All the tracks need to have their own sonic space and proper balance. The use of automation in the mixing process is often used to control many jobs such as volume levels, a multitude of parameters with plug-ins, and the amount and length of effects. The master buss can then have compression, Eq and maximizing plug-ins inserted to affect the overall stereo mix. The stereo track is now ready to be exported as a 44.1k 16Bit wav. File to be burned to a cd, or the stereo mix will be sent to mastering to be further Eq’d and maximized to commercial grade.