A roundup of introductory video guides to combining the various sounds in your own project.
With a focus on music, Joe Gilder from Home Studio Corner visualizes his 4 Rules of #Mixing:
Film Sound Mixing
While this next collection focuses on dialogue editing more specifically, the explainers go into more detail on the concepts discussed above individually, including EQ and Compression:
Music Mixing
Back to music: Grammy-winning, platinum-selling engineer Bob Power (D’Angelo, De La Soul, Erykah Badu, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, Macy Gray) talks through his mixing process for neo soul and hip hop at MixCon 2017 (via Sonic Scoop):
Multi-platinum producer/mixing engineer Lu Diaz (Jay-Z, Beyoncé, DJ Khaled, Pitbull) talks through his 4 Golden Rules to Mixing Hip Hop Vocals (via Waves Audio):
Music producer Underbelly gives an 18-minute guide to mixing:
Further Viewing
A more advanced technique, which is actually simple to implement, and whose results are noticeably effective – In The Mix gives a twelve-minute introduction to parallel processing:
After mixing comes mastering – here’s a series of videos offering concise overviews and walkthroughs of the mastering process: