Midnight Audio Templates

Professional Mixing Templates

Pre-built DAW sessions with optimized routing, bus groups, and starter processing. Drop in your stems and start mixing immediately with professional workflows.

Available templates

Placeholder catalog — swap names, genres, and descriptions for your real products.

Urban Session Starter

Genre: Hip-hop / R&B

Drum bus parallel compression, 808 sub send, vocal doubler return, and reference master bus.

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Indie Rock Live Room

Genre: Indie / alternative

Multi-mic drum bleed groups, guitar double bus, room reverb aux, and gentle mix-buss glue.

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Pop Vocal Stack

Genre: Pop

Lead, doubles, harmonies, ad-libs, tuning-friendly inserts, and sidechain duck to kick.

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Trap & 808 Focus

Genre: Trap

808 mono path, hi-hat width bus, snare transient shaper, and limiter-safe drum master.

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Podcast Dialogue Clean

Genre: Podcast / spoken word

Noise-print friendly inserts, de-esser, light compression, music ducking sidechain bus.

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Electronic Club Mix

Genre: Electronic / dance

Kick/bass separation EQ, synth width bus, riser/sweep returns, and dancefloor loudness chain.

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Full template specs

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Urban Session Starter

Hip-hop / R&B · Intermediate

Mix bus: HPF 20 Hz → SSL-style bus comp (2:1, 1–3 dB GR) → limiter ceiling −1 dBTP for rough checks.

Routing: Drums → Drum Bus (parallel comp send −15 dB); 808 on mono path; vocals → Vox Bus with doubler send; sidechain kick → 808.

Stock-only: DAW bus compressor + EQ + limiter; parallel smash on duplicate aux.

Indie Rock Live Room

Indie / alternative · Advanced

Subgroups: OH/Room → Room Bus; Guitars → Double Bus; parallel drum smash (1176-style fast).

Routing: Bleed-friendly drum EQ before compression; gentle mix-buss glue; room reverb from room mics + plate send.

Stock-only: Per-track EQ/comp; bus saturation with stock tape or saturator at low mix.

Pop Vocal Stack

Pop · Intermediate

Tracks: Lead, doubles L/R, harmonies, ad-libs; tuning-friendly inserts first; sidechain from kick to instrumental bus (not vocal).

Routing: Vox master → plate + delay sends; doubles −3 to −6 dB vs lead; ad-libs brighter EQ.

Stock-only: Pitch + EQ + two-stage comp + stock de-esser + reverb/delay sends.

Trap & 808 Focus

Trap · Intermediate

Low end: 808 mono below 120 Hz; hi-hat width on stereo bus; snare transient shaper on snare group.

Routing: Drum master limiter for peaks only; vocal parallel distortion optional; kick/808 gain automation first.

Stock-only: Mono utility + EQ + multiband on drum bus + clipper/limiter on master.

Podcast Dialogue Clean

Podcast / spoken word · Beginner

Chain: HPF 80–100 Hz → de-esser 6–9 kHz → single comp (3:1, 4–8 dB GR) → limiter −2 dBTP; target −16 LUFS integrated (platform-dependent).

Routing: Music bed on separate fader; sidechain duck music to VO; noise gate only if room noise is steady.

Stock-only: Full chain with stock EQ, comp, limiter; optional free noise reduction before EQ.

Electronic Club Mix

Electronic / dance · Advanced

Groups: Kick/bass mid/side EQ; synth width bus; riser/sweep on FX return; drum bus punch before mix bus.

Routing: Sub mono; sidechain bass to kick; reference loudness on limiter without crushing inter-sample peaks.

Stock-only: Multiband on low end + bus comp + true-peak–safe limiter.