Mixing Vocals Simplified In The Box | By 24LDZ

HI! My name is 24LDZ. I am a record producer, mix and master engineer. I have been producing music for over 12 years now and I have an array of successful independent artists including record labels I have worked with both as a producer and as a mix engineer. I have experience producing and engineering multi-genres such as; RnB, Pop, Afrobeat, Afro-Gospel, Rap, Acoustic to name a few. For those who care to know, I hold a BA (Hons) in Creative Music Production from one of UK's best universities and a MA in Advanced Music Technology.

Here is why my Team and I created this course for you.

I spent years trying to figure out how to make vocals sound crisp, punchy, and industry-sounding like the songs that top the billboards and songs that win the grammy’s but I never seemed to get it. I had watched loads of YouTube videos/tutorials on mixing vocals but they were not clear and detailed. I kept asking myself ‘what magic do these engineers do’. Then I began to pay closer attention to mixes in songs of multiple genres, training my ears to identify what popular song mixes actually sound like and then I created my own way of mixing. The knowledge of which I collated from diverse and extensive research, books and pdfs on mixing and from universities where I studied music production.

Hence, in this course, I will be showing you how to mix your vocals professionally and getting them sounding sweet, crisp, punchy, clean and ready for mastering.

You will be given the tools, tips and techniques used by industry and professional engineers - literally all the secret sauce you will need to start and finalise your projects and get them ready for mastering so you begin earning as a Professional Mix Engineer.

The modules of this course entail;

PROJECT ONE (Mixing A Single Artist using solely Logic Pro X Stock Plugins)

PROJECT TWO (Mixing Two Artists + A Rap Verse using Logic Pro X Stock Plugins + IK Multimedia T-Racks 5 Mix and Master Max Plugins which we added to this course for you)

Introduction:

Preparing project for Mix:

1. Arranging and Organising multi tracks in the DAW.

2. Creating track subgroups or stacks

3. Colour Coding

4. Comping and cleaning your audio files.

5. Gain staging and level balancing

6. Breaths, Hisses and Pops attenuation and cutting

7. Panning (panoramic effect)

8. Use of Autotune (Pitch Correction)

   
   

Mixing Stage 1 (EQ & Dynamics):

At the end of Lecture Two, you will understand and apply the below in your projects.

1. The Corrective and Creative use of Channel EQ

2. Use of Graphic EQ for Industry Standard Crispness

3. Use of Compression and Limiters

4. De-essing (Pre and Pro)

5. Creating an Aux track

6. Creating a Bus Track

7. Creating Sends

   
   

Mixing Stage 2 (FX):

Creative use of Multi-effects (FX)

Delays

Reverbs

Creating buses and sends (auxiliary tracks)

Distortion

Use of Automation

Mixing Stage 3 (Creative Mixing of other Vocal elements of song such as, harmonies, adlibs, punches)

Creative Mix of Lead Vocals: (Exploring T-racks 5)

Layering and cloning for richness/fullness

Making your lead vocals crisp and cut through

Multi-tracks Genres:

Afrobeat/Afro-Gospel

Afro-Pop

Rap

Getting your mix ready for Mastering:

Metering (LUFS, Correlation, True Peak and RMS)

Formats and Bouncing/Exporting

The Freebies: (Download Link)

Two Mixed Logic Projects For You To Deconstruct

Two Dry Multi-Tracks For You To Mix.

T-Racks 5 bundle Mixing and Mastering Max plugins.