TRACK 1 AUDIO / MIXING LESSON

How Reverb Glues a Mix Together

Watch Levi Brooks explain why reverb can act as glue between tracks. A short Track 1 Audio lesson about room perspective and space in your mix.

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From the Track 1 Audio studio.

Reverb is glue because it makes a room for your tracks

Presented by Levi Brooks of Track 1 Audio. Continue with the four-part pop rock mixing series, or explore the written mixing guides alongside the recordings.

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0:00So something reverb does, also compression does it when you have it on a bus, which is like where it's kind of working on four different tracks at the same time, it creates like a glue, basically it works like a glue where it kind of brings everything in together a little bit more, just blending it, mending it, you know, so on and so forth.

0:28I don't know if you can hear the difference but there's a little bit more balance I would say. Like everything kind of seems like it belongs in the same place because it is all in the same place.

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