Home Studio Mixing Checklist

Project name: Date:

Artist: Song:

1.0 Groundwork

1.1 Tempo and BPM 1.2 Song Arrangement 1.3 Intro 1.4 Outro

2.0 Panning

2.1 Kick Drum in Center 2.5 *

2.2 Bass Guitar in Center 2.6 *
2.3 Vocals in Center 2.7 *
2.4 Snare Drum in Center 2.8 *

3.0 Sound Space

3.1 Drums and Vocals in same space

4.0 Tracks in Solo

Perf. P&C C&H Perf. P&C C&H
4.1 Drum Overheads 4.12 Guitar 1
4.2 Kick In 4.13 Guitar 2
4.3 Kick Out 4.14 *
4.4 Snare Top 4.15 *
4.5 Snare Bottom 4.16 *
4.6 Toms 4.17 *
4.7 * 4.18 *
4.8 Bass Amp 4.19 *
4.9 Bass DI 4.20 *
4.10 Main Vocal 4.21 *
4.11 Backing Vocal 4.22 *

5.0 The Mix

5.1 Stereo Tracks 5.2 Low End 5.3 All tracks through mix bus 5.4 Gain Staging

6.0 Reverb

6.1 2 dB UP and sounds worse 6.2 2 dB DOWN and sounds too dry

7.0 Reference Tracks

7.1 7.2 7.3

8.0 Alternative Listening Environments

8.1 Earbuds 8.2 Car 8.3 Hi-Fi 8.4 Phone 8.5 Tabletop Speaker
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