Overview
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Reveals industry tips, tricks, and techniques for producing professionally mixed audio.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Determining the listening position
- Fixing acoustic problems
- Setting up your monitors
- Setting up your session
- Setting up your subgroups
- Setting up your effects
- Developing the groove
- Emphasizing the most important elements
- Knowing what to avoid
- Learning the principles of building a mix
- Assigning the drums to a subgroup
- Building the mix from the kick
- Building the mix from the snare
- Building the mix from the toms
- Building the mix from the overhead mics
- Checking the drum phase
- Balancing direct and miked bass channels
- Building the mix from the bass
- Building the mix from the vocals
- Balancing the rhythm section
- Balancing the rest of the instruments with the rhythm section
- Making a mix without building it
- Balancing the harmony vocals
- Looking at the three main panning areas
- Panning the drums
- Avoiding pseudo-stereo
- Understanding compressor parameters
- Setting up the compressor
- Compressing the drums
- Compressing the room mics
- Compressing the bass
- Using the New York compression trick
- Compressing the clean electric guitars
- Compressing the distorted electric guitars
- Compressing the acoustic guitars
- Compressing the piano
- Compressing the electric keyboards
- Compressing the vocals
- Compressing the horns
- Learning noise gate basics
- Using the noise gate on guitars
- Using the noise gate on drums
- Learning de-esser basics
- Using the de-esser on vocals
- Understanding equalizer parameters
- Learning subtractive equalization
- Learning frequency juggling
- Using the magic high-pass filter
- Learning the principles of equalization
- Equalizing the kick
- Equalizing the snare
- Equalizing the rack toms
- Equalizing the floor tom
- Equalizing the hi-hat
- Equalizing the cymbal or the overhead mics
- Equalizing the room mics
- Equalizing the bass
- Editing the bass rhythm
- Equalizing the rhythm section
- Equalizing the electric guitar
- Equalizing the acoustic guitar
- Equalizing the hand percussion
- Equalizing the lead vocals
- Equalizing the background vocals
- Equalizing the piano
- Equalizing the organ
- Equalizing the strings
- Equalizing the horns
- Learning the principles of reverb
- Understanding reverb parameters
- Timing the reverb to the track
- Equalizing the reverb
- Using the two-reverb quick setup
- Using the three-reverb setup
- Adding reverb to the drums
- Adding reverb to the vocals
- Adding reverb to the guitars
- Adding reverb to the piano
- Adding reverb to the organ
- Adding reverb to the strings
- Adding reverb to the horns
- Adding reverb to the percussion
- Using reverb to layer the mix
- Learning delay principles
- Understanding delay parameters
- Timing the delay to the track
- Using delay timing variations
- Equalizing the delay
- Understanding the Haas effect
- Using the three-delay setup
- Adding delay to the vocals
- Using delay to layer the mix
- Understanding the types of modulation
- Understanding modulation parameters
- Modulating the guitars
- Modulating the keyboards
- Modulating the vocals
- Modulating the strings
- Mixing with subgroups
- Using mix buss compression
- Understanding the evils of hypercompression
- Goodbye
