
Experiment with hybrid kick mixing by routing through Pitch Monster and API to hardware, adjusting latency, transient, distortion, and saturation for a fat, in-time kick with a recorded final take.
Group three bass tracks into a swing stack, route them to a parallel API 2500 compressor to lift mids, then bounce to the record bus.
Explores lightly saturating the initial blocks with tube saturation to add life, patching io plugins, adjusting harmonics around three kilohertz, and recording the full stem mix from start to finish.
Explore practical mixing to turn a dry recording into a punchy track. Route drums, claps, and vocals through compression, hall reverb, delays, and noise gates while removing resonant noise.
Apply parallel compression to drums by routing to a bus and blending dry and compressed signals with an SSL four thousand, sidechain, and tuned attack, release, and makeup gain.
Compare Neve and dual mic signals, choose the best sounding mix, and shape it with a vitalize plugin to add energy without overdoing it.
Many of the best professional mixing engineers work in a hybrid manner using both hardware and software.
For this course, we take that exact approach and mix a track using both software and some select hardware from our dedicated electronic dance music studios (Altar Studios). Follow a professional with 30 years experience, in the field of electronic dance music, as he mixes a track from a professional artist.
Throughout the course, you'll learn how a professional mix engineer approaches a mix, from the very beginning of listening to the track, to balancing the channels, removing resonances and working with transients, through to adjusting dynamics and applying EQ, processing and effects.
You'll have the opportunity to hear a track that was mixed entirely in software. Then slowly that same track transforms into a more professional sound as we introduce some of the most respected hardware in the industry, that is used in Altar Studios, from SPL, Elysia, SSL, Neve and Chandler.
Alongside learning how to mix a record to a professional standard, you can experience the real differences between a plugin and its analogue counterpart. This will help you learn to recognise the difference between the hardware and software versions as you gain experience in production and mixing.