Learn advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment, to make your tracks sound fat, wide, and full.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- 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
- What is headroom?
- How to improve consistency with gain
- Ways to manage loudness
- Compression, limiting, and clipping: The famed three explained
- Ways to use compression
- Ways to use limiting
- Ways to use clipping
- 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
- 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
- Next steps and additional resources
Taught by
Colin Fisher