What Is Mix Depth? How to Create Front-Back Space

What Is Mix Depth? How to Create Front-Back Space:

A sense of dimension is a key characteristic that separates professional mixes from amateur ones. Most engineers think of dimension in three ways: height, width, and depth. Height is frequency content and width is the stereo field. Depth is the front-to-back space in a mix and is a tricker area to navigate than the previous two.

Whereas some aspects of music production are driven by emotion or technical prowess, principles of depth draw on “real world” phenomena that deal with how sound moves through a space. In this article, we’ll look at how to add depth to a mix with practical tips related to EQ, timbre, reverb, and more.

Logic Pro | D is For Decay, Density, & Delay and How They Are All Connected in Logic’s ChromaVerb

Logic Pro | D is For Decay, Density, & Delay and How They Are All Connected in Logic’s ChromaVerb:

Deciding how long a reverb tail to use in your mixes encompasses a lot of variables. What is the tempo of the song? How busy are the parts? Are there a lot of open spaces between phrases, or are they densely packed together? Do you want to convey a sense of an intimate closer space, or a larger distant space? These are just some of the considerations that play an important role in communicating the intended emotion of the music.

1/3 Page Left — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day. #LogicProX @StudioIntern1

  1/3 Page Left

Move the visible score 1/3 of a page left. OK.

Maybe from a time when monitors were small and scores were large.

OH! MY! If I highlight one or more commands in the key commands window I can copy and past the list of selected commands. I have only ever done that with all of the commands…

Score Editor overview — Logic Pro X:

The Score Editor can display a single MIDI region or software instrument track. In the Score Editor, each track appears as a separate staff. Notes, rests, and other musical events in the MIDI regions on the track are displayed in standard musical notation.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Command    Key Touch Bar
- Global Commands
Page Setup…

- Various Windows
Page Up ⇞
Page Down ⇟
Page Left ↖
Page Right ↘
1/3 Page Left ⌃⌥⇧⌘⌦
1/3 Page Right
1/8 Page Left
1/8 Page Right
Page Top
Page Bottom
Page Left-Most
Page Right-Most

- Score Editor
Page View ⌃P
Show/Hide Page Rulers ⌃⇧R ⇧2⃣
Go to Page… ⌃/