Why Your Mix Still Doesn’t Sound Professional (Even After Mastering)
5 Reasons Your Song Still Sounds Amateur — Even After Mixing & Mastering Hamilton & Toronto Mixing Engineer – Morph Productions If you’ve been mixing your own tracks and they still don’t sound clean, wide, or “finished,” you’re not alone. Most artists I work with know the basics, EQ, compression, a limiter on the master bus but the results still fall short of the pro sound they hear on Spotify. The truth? It’s rarely one big mistake. It’s usually a handful of small oversights that stack up and hold your mix back. Here are the issues I see most often when artists come to me for mixing and mastering and how to fix them. 1. The Low-End Is Fighting Itself You can know everything about EQ, but if the low-end foundation isn’t right, the whole mix collapses. Most common issues I see: Kick and bass occupying the same frequency range Sub-heavy bass that disappears on small speakers No high-pass filtering on ...