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LinkedIn Learning

Advanced EDM Mixing

via LinkedIn Learning

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Overview

Learn advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment, to make your tracks sound fat, wide, and full.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Mixdown Introduction
  • Mixdowns explained
  • What is loudness?
  • Using dynamics to create power
  • Balancing a mix
  • The importance of good audio references
  • Avoiding ear fatigue
  • Patience is your ally
2. Headroom and Gain
  • What is headroom?
  • How to improve consistency with gain
  • Ways to manage loudness
3. Compression, Limiting, and Clipping
  • Compression, limiting, and clipping: The famed three explained
  • Ways to use compression
  • Ways to use limiting
  • Ways to use clipping
4. Subgroups
  • What are subgroups?
  • Organizing a mixdown
  • Using a kick subgroup
  • Using a drum subgroup
  • Using a bass subgroup
  • Using an instruments subgroup
  • Using an FX subgroup
  • Other ways of using subgroups
5. Stereo and Frequency Placement
  • Stereo and frequency placement explained simply
  • The philosophy of wideness
  • Use of fatness and understanding what it means
  • The dos and don'ts of applying width and fatness
  • Understanding the differences between width and panning
  • Tricks for achieving stereo width
Conclusion
  • Next steps and additional resources

Taught by

Colin Fisher

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