The Complete Mixing Masterclass by Udemy
The secret weapon of music making that will take your tracks from good to great.
Course Highlights
- Professional Mixing Techniques in all styles of music
- The tools of the professional mixer
- Mixing on any audio platform
- Making a track go from good to great
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
4 Topics
Introduction
How We Will Learn Mixing in this Class
What is Mixing Exactly?
The Different Between Mixing and Mastering
9 Topics
Why Focus on the Listening Environment?
Finding Acoustic Problems
Buying Monitors
Monitor Setup
Monitor Settings
Adding a Subwoofer
Why Not Just Use Headphones?
My Less-Then-Perfect Setup
Using Multiple Monitors and Listening in Mono
10 Topics
The First Phase of Mixing is Preparing the Track
Session Copy and Backup
Tracking Down Extraneous Noises
Cleaning Up The Session
Tuning Instruments
Organizing the Session
Group Tracks
Marking Sections
Creating Some Basic Effect Busses
Adding Compressors and Limiters
4 Topics
The Art of Mixing
The 3 Dimensions of Sound
The 3 Dimensions of Music
The "Focus" Element
8 Topics
Think Subtractive
Fighting Instruments
Finding a Starting Point
Setting Levels
The Noise Method
[Download] Pink Noise File
My Mix
Our Track So Far
6 Topics
The Stereo Field
The Phantom Center
Rules of Panning
Phasing Tricks
Surround Sound Mixing
Panning on My Mix
11 Topics
Working with Frequencies
Reading a Frequency Spectrum
The 7 Common Frequency Bands
Working with the EQ
Creating Definition in a Sound with EQ - Method 1
Creating Definition in a Sound with EQ - Method 2
Cleaning Up the Mud
Making Room in the Mix
Adding a High Pass Filter
Frequencies to Watch Out For
[Download] Frequency Cheat-Sheet
4 Topics
A Few Tricks
What is Inside A Good Kick Sound?
Is Anything Else Causing Problems?
Rebalancing
6 Topics
Using Effects in the Mix
What Actually is a Delay?
What Actually is a Reverb?
[Download] Reverb Cheat-Sheet
A Few Basic Guidelines
Bus Effects
6 Topics
Math! Calculating Delay Times
Feedback Settings
Delay Techniques for Vocals
Delay Techniques for Guitars
Delay Techniques for Drums
Does Our Track Need Any Delays?
7 Topics
Timing the Reverb Decay
Timing the Predelay
Bus Reverb Setup
Reverb Techniques for Vocals
Reverb Techniques for Drums
Reverb Techniques for Guitars and Synths
Putting It All Together
6 Topics
Modulation Effects
Flangers
Chorus
Tremolo and Vibrato
EQ Effects
Resampling
5 Topics
About Dynamics
Compression
Multiband Compression
Limiting
Gating
9 Topics
Using Compression
Variation Compensation
Compression with EQ
Compressor Settings
Parallel Compression
Compressing Drums
Compressing Vocals
Compression on Groups
Compression on the Master
7 Topics
What is Focus?
The Groove
The Featured Element
Further Reading
[Download] The 15 Steps to a Better Mix
The Most Important Rule in Mixing
Our Finished Track
1 Topic
Stems to Remix!
3 Topics
Is There Anything More to Mixing?
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