The Complete Mixing Masterclass

U1: Introduction

• Introduction
• How We Will Learn Mixing in this Class
• What is Mixing, Exactly?
• The Diferent Between Mixing and Mastering

U2: The Listening Environment

• Why Focus on the Listening Environment?
• Finding Acoustic Problems
• Buying Monitors
• Monitor Setup
• Monitor Settings
• Adding a Subwoofer
• Why Not Just Use Headphones?
• My Less-Then-Perfect Setup
• Using Multiple Monitors and Listening in Mono

U3: Preparing a Track for Mixing

• The First Phase of Mixing is Preparing the Track
• Session Copy and Backup
• Tracking Down Extraneous Noises
• Cleaning Up The Session
• Tuning Instruments
• Organizing the Session
• Group Tracks
• Marking Sections
• Creating Some Basic Efect Busses
• ¡Adding Compressors and Limiters

U4: Approaches to Mixing

• The Art of Mixing
• The 3 Dimensions of Sound
• The 3 Dimensions of Music
• The "Focus" Element

U5: Balance

• Think Subtractive
• Fighting Instruments
• Finding a Starting Point
• Setting Levels
• The Noise Method
• My Mix
• Our Track So Far

U6: Panning

• The Stereo Field
• The Phantom Center
• Rules of Panning
• Phasing Tricks
• Surround Sound Mixing
• Panning on My Mix

U7: Frequency

• Working with Frequencies
• Reading a Frequency Spectrum
• The 7 Common Frequency Bands
• Working with the EQ
• Creating Definition in a Sound with EQ - Method 1
• Creating Definition in a Sound with EQ - Method 2
• Cleaning Up the Mud
• Making Room in the Mix
• Adding a High Pass Filter
• Frequencies to Watch Out For

U8: The Battle of the Bass and Kick

• A Few Tricks
• What is Inside A Good Kick Sound?
• Is Anything Else Causing Problems?
• Rebalancing

U9: Space and Depth

• Using Effects in the Mix
• What Actually is a Delay?
• What Actually is a Reverb?
• A Few Basic Guidelines
• Bus Efects

U10: Creating Space with Delay Efects

• Math! Calculating Delay Times
• Feedback Settings
• Delay Techniques for Vocals
• Delay Techniques for Guitars
• Delay Techniques for Drums
• Does Our Track Need Any Delays?

U11: Creating Space with Reverb Effects

• Timing the Reverb Decay
• Timing the Predelay
• Bus Reverb Setup
• Reverb Techniques for Vocals
• Reverb Techniques for Drums
• Reverb Techniques for Guitars and Synths
• Putting It All Together

U12: Creating Space with Other  Effects

• Modulation Effects
• Flangers
• Chorus
• Tremolo and Vibrato
• EQ Efects
• Resampling

U13: Dynamics: Tools of Dynamics

• About Dynamics
• Compression
• Multiband Compression
• Limiting
• Gating

U14: Compression Techniques

• Using Compression
• Variation Compensation
• Compression with EQ
• Compressor Settings
• Parallel Compression
• Compressing Drums
• Compressing Vocals
• Compression on Groups
• Compression on the Master

U15: Focusing The Tracks

• What is Focus?
• The Groove
• The Featured Element
• Further Reading
• The Most Important Rule in Mixing
• Our Finished Track

U16: Wrap Up

• Is There Anything More to Mixing?
• Thanks for Watching!

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