Mixing 101: Learn The Essential Mixing Skills

The MAGIC Behind Mixing

What you'll learn

Learn surgical cutting and musical boosting to enhance tones

Control dynamics and add punch with compressors

Understand key techniques for cleaner mixes

Mastering basics: Prep your mix for release

Requirements

No experience needed.

Description

In this course, you'll learn the fundamental concepts and skills needed to mix audio at a professional level. Whether you produce your own music or work as an engineer, mixing is crucial for taking your tracks from raw recordings to radio-ready productions.Over concise, information-packed lessons, you'll discover:The mixing mindset: Understand the overarching goals and thought process behind mixingOrganizing tracks: Clean up sessions and group similar elements to streamline the processLevel balancing: Set proper gain staging and get the optimum volume balance between tracksEQ techniques: Learn surgical cutting and musical boosting to enhance tonesCompression: Control dynamics and add punch with compressorsSidechaining: Understand this key technique for cleaner mixesPanning & stereo imaging: Widen or focus the stereo field to create spaceSends & effects: Route signals to create vibrant reverbs, delays, and other effectsMix bus processing: Glue the track together with compression, EQ, and saturationMastering basics: Prep your mix for releaseLearn the key concepts and techniques every producer needs to mix music that sounds professional. This back-to-basics mixing tutorial covers essential skills like level balancing, EQ, compression, panning, fx, and mix bus processing. Gain the mixing knowledge needed to make your songs shiny and full, no matter what DAW or genre you use.Useful for all studios from bedroom setups to project studios. Mixing well is crucial to achieve clarity, width, and loudness. Let’s unlock the secrets to clean, dynamic, industry-quality mixes!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Mindset

Section 2: Main

Lecture 2 Organizer

Lecture 3 Rough Mix

Lecture 4 What is EQ

Lecture 5 Drums EQ Part 1

Lecture 6 Drums EQ Part 2

Lecture 7 Bass & Synths EQ

Lecture 8 Vocals EQ

Lecture 9 What Compression Is

Lecture 10 Compressing Drums & Synths

Lecture 11 Vocals Compressing

Lecture 12 Sidechaining

Lecture 13 Mixbuss Processing

Lecture 14 Panning

Lecture 15 Reverb on Drums

Lecture 16 Reverb on Synths

Lecture 17 Reverb on Vocals

Lecture 18 Delay on Vocals

Lecture 19 Final Balance

Lecture 20 Mastering

Lecture 21 Export Settings

Section 3: Outro

Lecture 22 Conclusion

Beginner music producers and mixing engineers.