Today we were preparing our track for Mixing, basically pre-mixing, making sure all the crossfades (crossfades are what you have to do if you stop recording a part half way through then carry it on with another track and then link them together) were together and also to make sure that if there was any surgery to the tracks that needed to happen that we all done it together before we took the track away to do our final mix.

The reason you would do is in a real life situation is because normally the producer wouldn’t do the mix as well as running the recording proceedings so it gets sent to someone else. The reason you do a pre mix is so that the Mixing Engineer knows roughly what the band/producer wants from the Mixing Engineer.