Description
Session 1 – Organizing the Mix
- Discuss easy to remember marker placement systems
- Marking up the session for quick navigation
- Review using markers to show and hide tracks automatically
- Changing track names in order to remember their contents
Session 2 – Preparing to Mix
- Importing and creating a track order
- Sorting tracks using folders
- Gain staging
- Cleaning up tracks
Session 3 – Creating the Static Mix
- Setting levels and pan for individual tracks
- Creating a basic master effects chain
- Applying broadstroke filtering and compression to achieve a controlled static mix
Session 4 – EQ 101
- Subtractive versus additive EQ
- Broadstrokes versus surgical EQ
- Identifying and addressing problematic frequencies
- Carving & enhancing tracks and buses
Session 5 – Compression 101
- Smoothing track levels
- Creating punch & excitement
- Routing techniques which ensure that vocals are always audible
Session 6 – Effects 101
- Folders versus buses
- Use of spatial effects such as reverb and delays to glue the mix together
- Enhancing tracks using creative effects such as saturation, filters, chorus, etc.
Session 7 – Automating the Mix
- Breathing life, dynamics and extra excitement into the mix by automating levels, panning and effects
Session 8 – The Revision Process
- How to deliver the mix to clients for approval
- Executing revision requests efficiently
- Learning to identify the finish line for each project
Session 9 – Finalizing the Mix
- Final tweaks to the master chain
- Exporting your work as a stereo bounce and/or stems
- Best practices to prepare the mix for mastering