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2011/06/04 08:54:05 (permalink)

Mixing For Radio

Anyone have any tips for mixing for radio airplay? I assume one should avoid over-compression, as the station will compress the signal further, but is there anything else I should pay particular attention to?


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    Beagle
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    Re:Mixing For Radio 2011/06/04 10:37:00 (permalink)
    I don't think I would mix anything special for radio.  I'm sure someone will have a different opinion.  but I'd just mix it normally and let them squash the bejeebers out of it like they're going to anyway and they probably will EQ it some the way the want.  not much you can do about that.  so just make the best mix you can and if you have it mastered professionally let them do whatever they want to do or if you master it yourself then just do what you'd normally do for a CD and not worry about airplay.

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    Re:Mixing For Radio 2011/06/04 11:28:02 (permalink)
    No, theres nothing special you do . All you need to do is to get the mix to sound its best and you need to get your mix to translate on all sound systems. If you do those 2 things, your good to go
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    Re:Mixing For Radio 2011/06/04 12:05:08 (permalink)
    Thanks.

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    Re:Mixing For Radio 2011/06/04 12:23:56 (permalink)
    As someone who does radio commercial production, you really don't have to do anything special. You would end up driving yourself crazy because no two stations are processed the same these days. We have a classic rocker and a hot ac in our cluster and the classic rock station's signal is a bit boomy around 180-220 or so, but the hot ac's eq settings are cleaner in that range yet way to sibilant up top (very annoying actually). I just mix everything as flat as I can.


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    Re:Mixing For Radio 2011/06/04 13:43:47 (permalink)
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    As someone who does radio commercial production, you really don't have to do anything special. You would end up driving yourself crazy because no two stations are processed the same these days. We have a classic rocker and a hot ac in our cluster and the classic rock station's signal is a bit boomy around 180-220 or so, but the hot ac's eq settings are cleaner in that range yet way to sibilant up top (very annoying actually). I just mix everything as flat as I can.







    Thanks. Great info.


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    Re:Mixing For Radio 2011/06/05 08:00:59 (permalink)
    Wish I could remember where I read it online but I read where depending on what side of the Atlantic one is on the mix balance between left and right channels changes when doing radio mixes. Something to do with the driver sitting on the right side of the car versus the left side of the car. Which is okay I guess but what about those that listen to radio at home on their stereos?

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