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Professional audio production, editing, and mixing techniques

The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate professional and efficient music production and music mixing techniques. This is not meant to be a definitive answer to the endless approaches that can be used in music production and mixing. Instead, it is intended to aid learning in a profession where there are no black and white answers since choices in music production and mixing are highly dependent upon the engineer's preferences. While it is true that music is an art and in the end not constrained by rules in the purist form of artistic expression, it is also true that certain practices produce results that are pleasing to a large portion of the population. In the beginning of my journey to become a professional audio engineer I became very frustrated with answers to questions like "How much compression should I use?" or "How do you get the guitars to sound like that?" Even though my questions were incredibly vague due to a lack of proper education and highly dependent on preference, application, and context, there is always at least one possible solution or piece of valuable information that can be conveyed. Throughout the thesis there will be specific explanations of production

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