Overview
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Discover tips, workarounds, and time-saving techniques to help music producers work smarter in the studio and enhance their final productions.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Modern production
- Surgical EQ and filtering
- Help elements sit in the mix
- Tame harsh elements
- Different flavors of additive EQ
- Combining additive and subtractive EQ
- The smile EQ shape
- Additive EQ on busses and 2-mix
- Multiband compressors: A breakdown
- Using de-essers on tracks and busses
- Taming peaks and resonances
- Sidechain multiband compression
- Intro to expansion or re-essing
- Multiband expansion
- Organization and backup
- File management for the modern producer
- Stemming and prep for mixing
- Tuning programmed drums
- An approach to layering drum sounds
- Parallel compression on drums
- The virtues of parallel distortion
- A mixer's guide to drum routing
- Rhythmic synth sounds with MIDI FX
- Layering synth parts with hardware
- Getting from MIDI to audio
- Tips on hardware synth processing
- Tracking vocals for maximum impact
- On-the-spot tuning
- Quick and dirty vocal chain
- Quick and dirty parallel vocals
- Mix buss processing: Is it necessary?
- EQ and filtering with a multi-buss mix
- Gassing your mix with a limiter or two
- Prepping tracks for mastering
- Compression basics
- Tasteful compression
- Vintage compressors and emulations
- VCA compression and drums
- FAT compression on guitars and vocals
- Opto compression on bass
- Chaining compressors on vocals
- Mix buss compression and glue
- Origins of saturation
- Tape saturation and vintage vibe
- Bit stripping and low-fidelity applications
- Tube-style saturation and sheen
- Quick and dirty ITB reamping
- Gain staging and headroom
- Mix buss EQ: Surgery and flavor
- Dialing in the mix buss compressor
- Applications of multiband processing
- Mix buss saturation
- Final limiting and how loud to print
- Transient designer overview
- Transient designer plugins
- Tweaking transients on drums
- Adding punch to a drum buss
- Transient design vs. compression
- Transient designers on other instruments
- Creative use of transient designers
- Transient design across the mix buss
- Programming synths for optimal impact
- Hardware synth recording
- Using ITB MIDI FX with hardware synths
- Hardware synth treatment
- Synth mixing primer
- Synth ducking and sidechain compression
- Classic synth FX
