13 Essential Articles on Mixing and Producing Electronic Music

This is a guest post by Dan from The Pro Audio Files:

Since releasing Mixing EDM, we’ve put out a ton of free articles and videos on The Pro Audio Files about mixing and producing electronic music.

I wanted to share some of our most popular articles that will help you take your EDM mixes to the next level:

• 5 Tips for Quickly Improving Your EDM Mix
• 5 Tips for Getting a Louder EDM Mix
• 5 Sidechain Pumping Techniques for EDM
• EDM: Where Producing and Mixing Collide
• Mixing EDM: Mix Engineer’s Perspective
• Mixing EDM: Producer’s Perspective

If you’re looking to level up your music production skills, Philip Mantione also recently released Synthesis 101, and has been putting out some awesome synthesis-related articles since then:

• Introduction to FM Synthesis
• Introduction to Granular Synthesis
• 5 Essential LFO Parameters You Should Know
• A Guide to Synth Modulation Sources and Controls
• Basics of Synth Envelope Parameters, Functions and Uses
• The What, Why and How of Modular Synthesis
• 10 Must-Have Synth Apps for Music Production

In addition, Daniel Strongin has published some excellent in-depth guides on producing various genres of electronic music, including 10 Essential Tips for Producing Dubstep and 10 Essential Tips for Producing Future Bass.

If you’re ready to skyrocket your EDM mixing skills, Mixing EDM is an in-depth training course from Matthew Weiss where he teaches you how to get the best possible results from all your EDM mixes and productions. Includes 4+ hours of tips, techniques, and approaches for mixing EDM, including drops, transitions, vocals, kicks, bass, synths and more — with three different songs as source material. There’s also multi-tracks to practice with and an interview with legendary mastering engineer Chris Athens.

Here’s what two recent customers had to say.