You look at loudness and softness for each song, and strive for a middle ground among all the tracks. As a mastering engineer you are worried about the balance of each song in relation to each other. While working as a mixing engineer you would be more concerned with how everything in the song is balanced. Not total similarity, but just enough that people are not caught off guard. Mastering to is the art of creating similarity. Mixing is the process by which all of your tracks: kick, snare, vocals, bass, synth, guitar, etc… are all combined and blended by means of levels, equalization, compression and other effects into a summed two channel (stereo) file. When working in surround you can then apply plugins to the Master.I cannot think of a better definition of mixing than the one by u/aldaraia: When not using surround, you can't apply plugins to the Master only to the Output groups. Technically it's a group output, even though your stereo mix is running through it.
But to keep things simple, leave your Master at 0dB and make adjustments at the Output.Īnd while people continue to refer to Output 1/2 as the master output, AFAIC that's not a technically correct way to refer to it. If you're only using Output 1/2 to bounce your mixes, then you have a redundant situation: you could raise or lower the level of your mix by moving either Output 1/2 or the Master. You won't see the Output faders move, but behind the scenes the level is reduced. If you bring it up or down, Logic will invisibly bring the level of all outputs up or down accordingly. The Master (fader) acts as the master volume level for all of Logic's outputs. Even though most of the time I print (bounce) my stereo mixes from Output 1/2, I refer to it as a group output. So I consider Output 1/2 a "group", Output 3/4 a group, and so on. When I bounce a track I usually do bounce it to outputs 1/2, but there have been times when I break out instruments to other groups and then loop them back into Logic, recording them on separate tracks.
For example, my FF800 has 28 outputs (14 stereo pairs). There are more groups in Logic than just outputs 1/2, and not all interfaces have just two outputs. To keep things simple, think of it this way: Keep in mind, though, that there are two things that are sometimes referred to as the "master fader": the Output 1/2 fader (or Stereo Out, named differently depending on which version of Logic you're running) and the Master.
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