The goal of mixing is to bring out the best in your multi-track recording by adjusting levels, panning, and time-based audio effects (chorus, reverb, delay). The aim is to sculpt your arrangement to make sense of all your tracks in relation to each other.
Why is mixing audio important?
Mixing is more important today as it ever has been. Mixing ensures that no matter the fashion in which the music has been recorded, it impacts with the correct aesthetic and allows the listener to be enveloped by the song.
Does mixing a song make it sound better?
Mixing makes your music sound much better. This is an undeniable fact. ... That's why mixing engineers have jobs, because the sound can only be so good during tracking. It's when you mix all those beautiful tracks together that you get a great sounding, mixed whole.