About Course
Ever wanted to experience a professional mixing session for a song destined for radio, TV, and film? Now’s your chance!
Join our Mixing Masterclass and immerse yourself in an 85+ channel mix session with a professional mixing engineer. Gain valuable insights and explanations at every step of the way.
- Mixing Philosophies: Discover how to infuse emotional content into your mix to enhance the song's story, making for a compelling listening experience. Learn how to make mix decisions that maximize impact and outcome.
- Drum Mixing: Unlock the power of the Waves Scheps Omni Channel to bring focus, clarity, and impact to your drum sound. Master techniques like bus EQ and parallel compression to avoid adding samples to live drum tracks. Learn how tape compression and expert panning can make your drums sound fatter and bigger, and see how editing can replace gating or expansion to tighten and focus your drum sound.
- Bass Mixing: Witness the creation of a rich, deep bass sound using a bass guitar performance recorded with two close mics, a DI box, and a pair of stereo room mics.
- Percussion Mixing: Explore how tape warmth and compression can sweeten and add depth to percussion. Learn how the right channel strip plug-in can make your percussion stand out without interfering with other rhythm section instruments.
- Acoustic Guitar Mixing: See how the Waves SSL EV2 brings clarity and sparkle to acoustic guitars while its compression tames transients for a more consistent mix placement. Discover how panning can add movement and locomotion to your track.
- Piano Mixing: Learn how to transform a virtual piano sound to rival the best grand piano recordings in top studios, achieving both depth and clarity.
- Electric Guitar Mixing: Master the art of making electric guitar tracks sit outside the boundaries of your speakers for added width and girth. Learn how EQ can help different guitar tracks stand out from each other, reducing muddiness or smearing. Explore creative uses of multiple reverbs to enhance clarity.
- Virtual Instrument Mixing: Discover techniques to give virtual instruments like organs, strings, and other soft synths the depth and weight they often lack in amateur mixes.
- Vocal Mixing: Learn how professional mixers treat and mix lead vocals to make them sit on top of the mix with width and clarity, ensuring every word is compelling. Discover tricks to thicken and widen background vocals, making them lush and creamy. Master the use of ADT (automatic double tracking),reverb, and panning to make four voices sound like a natural choral group.
- Automation Tips and Creative Busing: Harness the power of automation and busing to make densely tracked mixes sound open, roomy, and dynamic.
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