Mixing A Track From Start To Finish
Complete mixing process, state of the art techniques and theoretical backgrounds using Ableton Live 9 only
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What you will learn from this course:
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Mix Preparation & First Balance |
What is the musical idea of the song. Setting up your session for a great mixing workflow, order of tracks, grouping, creating busses. Identifying the most important section and instruments in your song. |
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Avoid Common Mixing Errors |
Referencing, "louder sounds better"-trap, finding the right mixing volume, subtractive vs additive EQ, dithering, phasing, awareness for resonances caused by your environment and many more. |
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Bass Layers & Sub Bass Separation |
Why mono bass, separating sub frequencies, kick-bass side-chaining techniques, multiband side-chaining, dynamic EQ, etc. |
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Complete Mixing Process |
After finding a first balance and an order for our mixing process we're working our way through cleaning, gain staging, eqing, compressing, sound enhancing, bussing, balancing the track step by step, working our way down from the most important elemtents. |
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Compression-Techniques |
How the compressor works and is applied in the mixing stage, drum and bass compression, side-chain compression, multiband compression, parallel compression, New-York compression, limiting |
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EQing-Techniques |
Dealing with resonances, learn to avoid upward spirals of EQ boosting, best practise to avoid frequency masking, why we favor cuts over boosts, why to use shelf filters before peak filters, before notch filters, mid-side EQ, etc. |
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Covering Theoretical Background |
Phase cancellation, room treatment, law of the first wavefront, how our ears sense the direction and distance of sound, Fletcher-Munson Curve, anti-phase |
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Sweetening to taste |
Adding sound enhancing elements, like send reverbs, stereo effects, slap delays on our vocals, haas effect, etc. |
What song is used in the course?
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What you're getting: |
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A complete start-to-finish mixing process on a state of the art pop-house track |
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40+ Studio sessions with Francois / Production Music Live |
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5h+ online video sessions with lifetime-access |
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Slides / cheat sheets collection you can always quickly turn to |
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Bonus: Ableton Project (instrumental) used in this couse (using Ableton Live 9 Standard + NI Massive 1.3.xx or higher) |
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Bonus: More sessions (and requests) to be added over time |
Your Instructor
I'm Francois, classically trained musician and music producer from Germany with an insatiable passion for great sound design, audio engineering and electronic music production. I've released tracks on labels such as Universal Music, Parquet Recordings, Portrait Digital Recordings, Somatic Sense, Jannowitz Records and others. Maybe you've seen one of my tutorials on our YouTube channel "Production Music Live". I also have a personal Youtube Channel called "Francois Beats". I like exploring new ways of working, acquiring new skills and sharing my knowledge.
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