Harmonize the mix

When several tracks crowd the same frequencies, the mix turns muddy — the bass and a low synth fight over the low end, a pad smears the vocal's mids, and turning everything up just makes it worse. Harmonize clears this up automatically: it listens to your tracks, works out which one should own each part of the frequency range, and gently steps the others back there so each track gets its own space.

How to use it

1. Open the Mix view.
2. Press play so the part you want to balance is sounding — Harmonize listens to the live mix, so it can only work on what it can hear.
3. Click Harmonize (top of the Mix view).

It listens for a moment, then adjusts the tracks that were getting in each other's way. You'll see a short note like "Cleared space on 3 tracks."

What it changes

Harmonize adds a Graphic EQ to the tracks it adjusts and makes small cuts in the bands where they were clashing — never big ones. The rules it follows:

• The bass keeps the low end. Whatever track lives lowest owns the lows; other tracks that pile up down there get eased back so the bass stays clear and punchy.
• The loudest, most present track keeps each midrange/high band, and quieter tracks that overlap it are nudged down.
• Tracks that already have their own space are left completely alone.

It's only a starting point

Everything Harmonize does is a normal EQ move you can see and change. Open a track's Graphic EQ in its effects to view the cuts, tweak them, or flatten a band you'd rather keep. Nothing is locked in.

Tips

• Play the busiest section of the song (full chorus, all parts in) before pressing Harmonize — it balances what's playing at that moment.
• If you get "No clashes found," make sure the mix is actually playing and more than one track is sounding.
• Re-running Harmonize after big changes is fine; it re-measures and re-balances.
• Harmonize is for clearing space between tracks. For shaping a single track's tone, reach for the simpler 3-band EQ instead.