Beginner's Guide to Music-making, Mixing & Mastering

I noticed editing only lasts fifteen minutes in Newgrounds, so I remade my guide with reduced redundancy, fixed typos, clarified areas, and tightened the wording, plus added more extras I forgot about previously. Overall, it's under 10k words, telling you everything from start to finish as an introduction to music making, mixing and mastering to produce quality audio.

I made this so a beginner can get started making quality music whilst also guiding them into mixing and mastering, without being fooled by ads into buying stuff they don't even need. This way, you'll not repeat the mistakes I did and so many others have also!

I'm not a professional, but I can share what I experienced and researched. I do not know if someone already posted something like this, so assume this is me sharing my views and NOT implying this is the only or best way to start. There are other guides that contradict this one, and that's OK. This guide may not even be useful for you, and that's OK, too.

If you already know the basics of DAWs, VSTs and plugins, skip to step #6.