The following are a few time-honored, studio-tested mixing tips designed to help you pull a tasty product out of your own home-studio oven. Mixing is kind of like cooking - you might have all the right ingredients on hand, but it’s how you put them together that determines whether or not you’ll have a dish worth serving. However, in some respects the most important part of any recording project is blending the various elements together into one well-balanced final mix. Capturing a great performance in multitrack is half the battle when making demos.