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🥣 To mix too much 🎚️ To mix audio badly
to overmix

to overmix

6.8
Combine audio tracks too much so the sound becomes muddy or unclear
  • verb
  • /ˌoʊvərˈmɪks/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mezclar en exceso
  • The producer warned not to overmix the track or it would lose its clarity.

Examples

  • If you overmix the song, the vocals will be buried under reverb and loud instruments.

  • Some albums sound muddy because engineers overmix every instrument and effect.

  • Don't overmix the tracks!

  • She overmixed the audio for the podcast.

  • If you overmix the song, it will sound cluttered and lose its impact.

  • The engineer cautioned us not to overmix the recording, warning that it would distort the sound.

  • When you overmix the music tracks, it makes it hard to hear the individual instruments clearly.

How Mixed

to overmix
  • Specialized
6.8
to muddle
33 4.8
to blend
255 2.3
to mix
  • Specialized
142 4.1

Surface Forms

overmix infinitive
overmixed past
overmixed past participle
overmixing present participle
overmixes third person singular

Morphology

overmix = mix (transparent) = over + mix

The productive prefix 'over-' ('excessively') plus 'mix' straightforwardly yields 'mix too much', which naturally extends to audio mixing.

Etymology

Overmix comes from over- meaning 'too much' and mix meaning 'to join together'. Think of a song with too many sounds and effects; when someone adds too much, the music becomes muddy, so to overmix a track is to mix it too much and spoil the sound.