What is automation? Nowadays young sound engineers and those wanting to start a career in sound engineering or simply those in the hobby of mixing music rely more on plug-ins rather than automation. Most of them fail to see and understand its process, how it works, and what it can do. They’re actually mixing one of the major areas of professional mixing.
In a recording certain parameters evolve through time and automation is what allows this process to happen. Today with DAW’s (Digital Audio Workstation) you can automate almost any setting, from volume to pan etc. Normally you will recognize these by graphical curves.
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