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This ms word document is a rough guide on how to go about mixing a pop record from scratch. Many people don't seem to know where to start, so hopefully this article will give some guidance


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Thanks for posting the link to that document. It looks like it's EXACTLY what I need. I really appreciate knowing about this.


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that was written by jezar wakefield of the uk who is a studio engineer and was a regular on the n-track www.fasoft.com forum a few years back. he also gave us 'freeverb' a dx reverb plugin. very nice guy.

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Thank you for this. I will refer to this many times.

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I stumbled across this a few years ago and I always have a printed copy to hand in my studio - I keep it in my studio 'presenter' folder where I keep all my precious and vital tips, tricks, EQ tables, 'how to' procedures, etc.


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THanks for sharing this, Mike.

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Going through the old threads at the n-Track forum I found Jezar's article on compression also. Good stuff.
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so i thought i would do a search on Jeremy "Jezar" Wakefield to see what i could find

found a site that had links to other sites in this post

eremy "Jezar" Wakefield has written some very nice articals about mastering and stuff (wich I try to study the last few weeks/ months). The articals could be found at http://home.onet.co.uk/~jzracc/articles.htm but that link doens't work for me right now. Another link I found is http://www.dreampoint.co.uk/his homepage but that says that the page is closed for the Summer, hm :-( Anyway you have to search for the artical named "how to mix a popsong from scratch". 2001-10-15 by Constellation X


tried this link http://home.onet.co.uk/~jzracc/articles.htm but it din't work

now the important part

cue The Wayback Machine

entered http://home.onet.co.uk/~jzracc/articles.htm into the wayback machine clicked 'take me back' and was presented with of links of archived pages

chose aug 2001 and her's your page!!!


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Thanks, that is great information.
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