Overview
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Interested in producing the next chart-topping pop song? Multi-platinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf demonstrates his hit-making song mixing techniques.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching
- Beginning a mix
- Customizing your own mix template
- Volume, panning, EQ and dynamics basics
- Ambience, modulation, and harmonics plugins
- Achieving a good raw balance
- Understanding signal processing order
- Kick drum processing techniques
- Snare drum processing
- Tom toms and cymbals processing
- Drum room mics processing
- Lead vocal processing techniques
- Background vocal processing techniques
- Gain processing using EQ and dynamics
- Treating the bass guitar
- Treating synth bass sounds
- Making electric guitars sing with compression, EQ, and reverb
- Placing acoustic grand piano in the mix
- Carefully crafting the keyboards
- Choosing the right EQ for the acoustic guitar
- Taming and then featuring percussion
- Mixing real and sampled strings
- Treating real live brass
- Parallel compression techniques
- Next steps
