The Official Guide To Mixing
What you'll learn
- Develop the skills necessary to prepare, execute and finalise a mix to a professional standard
- Make your drum sounds punchy and powerful
- Use parallel compression in order to achieve a consistent sound and increase loudness
- Mix your bass effectively and make it blend with the kick drum
- Learn the secrets for getting a prominent, commercial vocal sound
- Use analogue and plugin compressors and eq's
- Make your mix more three-dimensional
- Make space for the important elements of your mix
- Use pads and strings as a means of making your mix wider
- Mix strategically to achieve maximum loudness
Requirements
- You should know how to use a PC/MAC and audio editing/recording software.
Description
About this course:
Mixing is one of the most important stages of music production. It's the point where all elements of the music come together, and are modified and enhanced to achieve the best possible sonic result.
On this video we show you all the steps, techniques and principles for accomplish a powerful, balanced, punchy and dynamic sound.
You will also see all the secrets you need to know, in order to make your mixes sound professional and ready to compete with the high standards of commercial releases.
Filmed at the Doctor Mix studios in London, our professional engineers walk you through every step of their process using high quality analogue gear and plugins.
In this class you'll learn...
- How to prepare, organize and get your material ready for mixing
- A/B comparison to commercial releases or demo mix
- Gain Staging
- Filtering The Low End
- Bus Routing
- Kick Drum
- Parallel Compression
- Increasing The Kick Impact
- Sine Wave Trick
- Transient Enhancement
- Enhancing The Snare
- How To Balance The Drums
- Bus Compression
- How To Mix The Bass
- Bass Sidechain
- Basic Vocal EQ & Compression
- Vocal Correction With Dynamic EQ
- Adding Reverb And Delay On Vocals
- Mixing The Acoustic Guitar
- Mixing Pads and Strings
- Mixing the Horns
- Mastering Techniques
You will also learn how to strategically setup your mix so that you get the maximum loudness before you even get to the mastering stage.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for music producers who want to learn to mix professionally.
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 356 Reviews
- 929 Students
- 3 Courses
WHO IS DOCTOR MIX?
Doctor Mix is a division of BBC-acclaimed music label Sunlightsquare Records (London). Specialising in online mastering and mixing services, Doctor Mix is now entering its eleventh year of operation, with an ever-growing client base.
Claudio Passavanti is the founder of Doctor Mix and Sunlightsquare Records. A long-established producer, pianist and DJ, his career has taken him from LA, where he studied Orchestral Composing and Arranging, to London and all around the world. Previously in-house producer for techno label Almighty Records, he has engineered and produced commercial releases and film music covering just about every genre
Dom Sigalas is an in-demand producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer for film, TV and video games. His credits include Universal Music, StudioCanal and the National Geographic and Animal Planet channels. Alongside his work as a media composer and arranger, Dom also writes and produces songs for pop artists and teaches a course in Orchestration and Music Creation at the SAE Institute.
THE TEAM & THE STUDIOS
Established in 2006, Doctor Mix’s London studio complex includes three top production rooms and a group of producers, sound engineers, session musicians and DJs. Our core team of 4 mixing and mastering experts creates also our popular video content. We love music and equipment, and we get a lot of both! Our production studios are equipped with great analogue and digital gear: Thermionic Culture Fat Bustard Tube Summing Mixer, Studer A80 Master Tape Recorder, Neve 33609 JD compressor, Thermionic Culture Phoenix Mastering compressor, Empirical Labs Distressor, SSL XLogic G Series compressor, Universal Audio Solo 610, TC Electronic Finalizer, Yamaha, KRK, Adam and PMC monitors, and GIK Acoustic sound treatment in all rooms. Our collaboration with the top equipment manufacturers and distributors in the UK gives us access to some of the best outboard gear available on the market today, from brands including Lynx, Prism Sound, Thermionic Culture, Shadow Hills, Chandler Limited, Tube Tech, Neve and more.
CLIENTS
At Doctor Mix, we have a long history in professional music production, with a client list that includes some of the most notable names in the music and film industry. For these clients, we have become the go-to online mixing and mastering experts.
Our credit list includes: BBE Records (Germany), Big Talk Productions, Brownswood Recordings (UK), CCRE CO (Japan), Club Star (Germany), Decca Records, Dome Records (UK), EMI Virgin, Film 4, Freestyle Records (UK), George V Buddha Bar, Jazz FM (UK), Kudos Distribution, Pschent Music (France), Rambling Records (Japan), Sony Bmg, Studio Canal, Sugar Music (Italy), Universal Music Group, Wavemusic (Germany), Working Title Films (UK).