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4-Track Master Mixdown (Lil Maniyak & Sky Lake Village)

Here's a quick video showcasing the final mixing process using a 4-track studio setup, which is what most indie productions would be dealing with in the pre-digital recording era of the 80's and 90's. Here I'm mixing down from the 4-track tape to a 2-Channel master tape. All independent levels and EQ settings are adjusted per channel (track) to a base standard per song. Then all manual changes to levels, EQ, effects etc are noted and timestamped to be done in real time during the mixdown. You would then follow your mixing notes during the mixdown which will be recorded down to a 2-channel master tape or reel-to-reel. Since most underground productions were not professionally mastered per track during the mixing stage, the 2-Channel master tape that was mixed-down directly from the 4-track machine was the final mix. The final mixes' durations would then be added up and organized however the producer wanted to final tape to be produced. The entire time keeping in mind the length of each track and how they will fit onto a given cassette's Side A & B as most underground productions were not professionally loaded to custom lengths. So for example say you know your final tape is gunna have 10 tracks (songs), you'll need to figure out how your gunna split up the tracks for Side A and B depending on how long each track is, and then decide what pre-loaded tape length should be used for the final product. If you calculate that Side A runs for 34 minutes for example, you'll know that a 60 minute cassette is too short to order for duplication since there only 30 minutes available per side. You would have to make adjustments. You would either have to cut down your final mixdown runtimes, rearrange the tracks, or choose a longer pre-loaded tape so that everything fits on both sides. Just goes to show how much work, time, and effort was put into just the mixing and post-production process alone. Today you can do all this from start to finish with about 20 clicks of the mouse and no equipment, and upload to the world in seconds. And you wouldn't have to worry about any of these issues. Back 20 years ago, there was limitations to every single step involved from just sampling music in production to the grade of cassette used, and the end result was a single mixtape that just a handful of people would get to hear, if you were lucky.