Overview
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Interested in producing the next chart-topping pop song? Multiplatinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf demonstrates more of his hit-making song mixing techniques.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching
- Choosing the right reverb
- Applying reverbs to different instruments
- Adding digital delay to your mix
- Delay vs. echo vs. reverb: Aren't they the same?
- How to tune your mix
- The magic dust of pitch shifting
- Phase shifting and flanging
- The most overused device in pop music today
- Using panning as an effect
- Working miracles with special enhancement processors
- Creating Individual group auxiliaries for overall processing
- Increasing drum power and presence with drum replacement
- How to make sure your drums are phase coherent
- Achieving clarity in the bass
- Making a place for the electric guitars
- Driving home the groove with the acoustic guitars
- How to achieve a perfect balance within the keyboards bus
- Adding punch and clarity to the stereo mix (master bus)
- How to add sheer volume to your mix
- Separating the elements of your drum kit
- Mixing with speakers vs. headphones
- Adding true dimension to your mix: The details
- Affecting the effects
- Making the chorus "pop"
- How to bring out the emotion of the song in your mix
- Knowing when your mix is done
- Next steps
