Overview
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Take a peek over Brian Lee White's shoulder as he sequentially moves through the mixing process for a hip-hop track, from layering the drums to processing the vocals.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you need to know
- Exercise files
- Setting up the mixer and getting initial levels
- Building the kick drum layer
- Layering the snares
- Adding the drum reverbs
- Working with the claps and hi-hats
- Building the verse lead-vocal sound
- Setting up the vocal FX returns
- Adding the rap stabs
- Processing the hook lead vocals
- Processing the background vocals
- Processing the FX vocals
- Creating a unique vocal sound for the intro and the bridge
- Working in the ad lib vocals
- Warming up the bass tone
- Adding drama to the choir track
- Re-creating a sampled vinyl sound for the organ
- Layering the remaining instruments
- Circling back and revising the mix
- Adding automation
- Mastering the track with compression and limiting
- Printing the final stereo mix
- Reviewing the final master
- Goodbye
