

People now start mixing as soon as the second track is laid and Studio One’s Project page creates the equivalent transformation at the other end of the process, breaking down the division between mixing and mastering, which traditionally has been thought of as a post-production process. The rise of DAWs has eroded the division between the traditionally separate production phases of recording, overdubbing, editing and mixing. Studio One’s unique Project page lets you move seamlessly between mixing and mastering. The image widening created here with the Mid-Sides-based Binaural Pan plug-in may end up getting replaced in the mix by panning or image widening of individual instruments. Note that EQ has also been applied to this track. Here, ‘Welcome To LA’ is being widened to work best with the stereo width of other tracks. The Project page can be used as a laboratory in which an album can be refined by matching songs to references.
