How to Mix Hip-Hop Beats and Vocals

Mixing hip-hop is something that’s made for the home recording studio.

It’s mostly electronic so you can get away with using loops and synths in the box. No need for a big recording studio to track drums or anything like that.

You just need a vocal recording setup in your bedroom studio and you’re up and running. I bet it’s a pretty sweet situation to have. At least you don’t have to worry too much about complicated recording techniques, but there’s still the issue of mixing them beats that’s a struggle.

To be with rap sessions to be an expert.

Matthew Weiss over at the Pro Audio Files is an expert, and he’s got some cool articles on hip-hop mixing right here:

Go check out those articles if you’re interested in hip-hop mixing. I’ll wait here, but I got a little announcement for you at the end of this post.

Matthew is the creator of Mixing Rap Vocals (grab the free Mixing Rap Vocals eBook Bundle right here) that came out a couple of months ago and today he came out with a brand new video tutorial on Mixing Hip Hop Beats.

In it, Matthew goes over everything you need to know to get a hard-hitting hip-hop track going.

Setting levels
Emotional automation
Making the drums hit hard
Enhancing the synths
Home mastering tips

If hip-hop is your thing, check out Mixing Hip Hop Beats here.

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