Recording and Mixing Skills
                     Enhance your 
Recording and Mixing 
Skills
by
Grayspark Audio Academy
https://academy.gray-spark.com/
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (+91) 777-501-8077
Introduction
To get better at recording and mixing skills “Practice” is the 
only key. Yes, we all have heard it, but yet find it hard to get 
down to actually practicing your recording and mixing skills.
Here are some ways that we can analyze and correct 
our mistakes through practice and become an efficient 
recording and mixing engineers.
Record an Instrument on a pre-
recorded session
• Try and get your hands on a few Multi-Track sessions, you 
can take this from already recorded track. 
• Choose any instrument from this recording and re-record 
it.
• Understand the thought process of the recording engineer 
that went into designing specific sound. 
• Try visualizing different sounds for 
these instruments and record them, 
this will help you with getting faster 
at recording.
•  This tip will help you build your skill 
recording and visualizing a relevant 
sound for a song.
Emulate or Reverse 
Recordings 
• Let’s take example of the drum sound on “Boom Like That” 
a song by Mark Knopfler to understand this.
• Try different micing techniques, drum Tunings, preamps 
and microphone combinations and different room positions 
until you reach a point where the drum sound is comparable 
to the one from the song.
•In this process, you will learn a few 
more ways that could use studio 
equipment to get closer to different 
sounds.
•Reverse engineering is easy, 
analyze and break down the sound 
into simple forms, define every 
element of the sound. 
Analyze Mix Sessions from 
your Engineers
• Try to get your hands on some of the sessions that have 
been mixed and try to put yourself in the mix engineer’s 
chair.
• Take a part the mix and listen to all the elements without 
the processing on it, listen to it with the plug-ins 
bypassed and then effects and processing dialed it.
Practice Multi-Track Mixing
• Take any Multi-Track session and start by getting the 
balance in place and repeat it until you reach a point that 
you’re happy with.
• Once you arrive at a good balance, try to shape the tone 
and dynamics of the instruments and get them in line 
with what your vision for the song. 
Thank You.