Become a Mix Engineer

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Free Online Course: Become a Mix Engineer provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Become a Mix Engineer is taught by Garrick Chow, Bobby Owsinski, Brian Lee White, Alex Case, Larry Crane, Ryan Hewitt, Dave Darlington, Colin E. Fisher and Brian Malouf.

Overview
  • Make your mark on the music business as a mix engineer. Discover how to produce professionally mixed audio on any digital audio workstation, and combine traditional and cutting-edge recording techniques.

    • Learn essential audio and recording principles.
    • Practice utilizing EQ and compression effectively.
    • Apply reverb, delay, and creative effects to your tracks.

Syllabus
  • Courses under this program:
    Course 1: Audio and Music Production Careers: First Steps
    -Learn about the jobs, equipment, DAWs, and training you need to get started down an audio learning path.

    Course 2: Audio Mixing Bootcamp
    -Reveals industry tips, tricks, and techniques for producing professionally mixed audio.

    Course 3: Audio Foundations: Compression and Dynamic Processing
    -Shows how to improve the sound of a mix using compressors, limiters, gates, de-essers, and other dynamic processors.

    Course 4: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters
    -Shows how to properly apply equalization (EQ) to improve the sound of a mix.

    Course 5: Audio Foundations: Reverb
    -Explains one of the most essential ingredients in audio mixing, reverb—the time it takes for sound to bounce, echo, and decay during a live performance or recording.

    Course 6: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation
    -The fundamentals of delay and modulation effects and how to apply these effects, technically and creatively, to improve the sound of a mix.

    Course 7: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Mixing
    -Join Larry Crane, producer behind albums by The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Jenny Lewis, and Sleater-Kinney, shows you how to get more life and energy out of your existing tracks.

    Course 8: Drum Mixing: Techniques
    -GRAMMY-winning producer Ryan Hewitt explains his techniques for mixing radio-ready drum sounds with any DAW or console.

    Course 9: Mixing a Modern Jazz Track
    -Learn the mixing techniques Grammy-winning producer Dave Darlington uses to transform raw audio tracks into great jazz mixes.

    Course 10: Mixing an EDM Track
    -Learn how to mix a solid EDM track from raw material with Dave Darlington's Grammy-winning techniques.

    Course 11: Advanced EDM Mixing
    -Learn advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment, to make your tracks sound fat, wide, and full.

    Course 12: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
    -Interested in producing the next chart-topping pop song? Multi-platinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf demonstrates his hit-making song mixing techniques.