Francois – Module 4: Mixing A Track From Start To Finish

Francois – Module 4: Mixing A Track From Start To Finish

Mixing A Track From Start To Finish
Complete mixing process, state of the art techniques and theoretical backgrounds using Ableton Live 9 only
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What you will learn from this course:
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Mix Preparation & First Balance
What is the musical idea of the song. Setting up your session for a great mixing workflow, order of tracks, grouping, creating busses. Identifying the most important section and instruments in your song.
Avoid Common Mixing Errors
Referencing, “louder sounds better”-trap, finding the right mixing volume, subtractive vs additive EQ, dithering, phasing, awareness for resonances caused by your environment and many more.
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Bass Layers & Sub Bass Separation
Why mono bass, separating sub frequencies, kick-bass side-chaining techniques, multiband side-chaining, dynamic EQ, etc.
Complete Mixing Process
After finding a first balance and an order for our mixing process we’re working our way through cleaning, gain staging, eqing, compressing, sound enhancing, bussing, balancing the track step by step, working our way down from the most important elemtents.
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Compression-Techniques
How the compressor works and is applied in the mixing stage, drum and bass compression, side-chain compression, multiband compression, parallel compression, New-York compression, limiting
EQing-Techniques
Dealing with resonances, learn to avoid upward spirals of EQ boosting, best practise to avoid frequency masking, why we favor cuts over boosts, why to use shelf filters before peak filters, before notch filters, mid-side EQ, etc.
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Covering Theoretical Background
Phase cancellation, room treatment, law of the first wavefront, how our ears sense the direction and distance of sound, Fletcher-Munson Curve, anti-phase
Sweetening to taste
Adding sound enhancing elements, like send reverbs, stereo effects, slap delays on our vocals, haas effect, etc.
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What song is used in the course?
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What people say:
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You’re learning to:
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• Avoid common mixing errors and psycho-acoustic traps
• Prepare your Ableton Session for a great mixing workflow
• Use EQ to make room and properly place elements
• Utilize compressors to add or remove dynamics
• Use saturation & distortion to add upper harmonics to the mix
• Properly split your bass freqencies for sub-separation
• Identify the right song-part to start mixing
• Mix with Ableton stock plugins
• Mix instruments, drums and bass with EQ, compression, etc
• Correctly use groups, send effects and audio while mixing
• Master the fundamentals and theories of sound perception
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What you’re getting:
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A complete start-to-finish mixing process on a state of the art pop-house track
40+ Studio sessions with Francois / Production Music Live
5h+ online video sessions with lifetime-access
Slides / cheat sheets collection you can always quickly turn to
Bonus: Ableton Project (instrumental) used in this couse (using Ableton Live 9 Standard + NI Massive 1.3.xx or higher)
Bonus: More sessions (and requests) to be added over time

Course Curriculum

Module 4: Mixing A Track From Start To Finish
Intro and Basics

Welcome & Downloading Files (0:26)

Intro: Mixing and Stages of the Production Process (2:01)

Preliminary Information (1:40)

Preparing The Mix (1)

Playing the Unmixed Track (3:08)

Mix Preparation (Order, Reference Track, Louder sounds better trap) (4:35)

EQ Cleaning: High Passing (6:24)

First Balance (2)

Finding a First Balance (1) (7:54)

Finding a First Balance (2) (13:41)

Excursion: Speakers / Monitors (1:21)

Mixing The Kick (3)

The Kickdrum (4:57)

Side-Chaining (5:15)

Excursion: Fletcher Munson Curve (and finding a good listening volume) (3:29)

Mixing The Bass Parts (4)

Top Bass Layer (10:37)

Mid Bass Layer (6:37)

Low Bass Layer (5:12)

Grouping Bass Layers (7:34)

Excursion: Why Mono Bass (1:25)

Excursion: Phase Cancellation (12:11)

Creating a Bass-Buss – Bringing it all together (9:15)

New York Compression – Return Channel (3:54)

Mixing The Vocal Parts (5)

Excursion: Stereo Enhancement (Haas Effect) (11:30)

Vocals (8:55)

Vocals – DeEsser (9:51)

Mixing the Instruments (6)

Technique: Distortion / Saturation (5:53)

Piano – Adding Upper Harmonics / Return Channel (10:42)

Mixing the Marimba Instrument (8:55)

Mixing the Synth Instrument (9:36)

Mixing Drum Elements (13:50)

“Dynamic EQ” for the Subbass (4:58)

Special: Room Treatment (1:32)

Sweetening To Taste (7)

Sweetening To Taste (Marimba) (6:07)

Sweetening To Taste (Vocals, Hihats) (5:42)

Finalizing (8)

Playing the Mixed Track (3:07)

Optional: Quick Little Master (7:59)

Exporting (Dithering, Sample Rate, File Type) (7:56)

Summing Up

Summing Up / Key Take-Away’s (5:17)

Going into Detail & Additional Resources

Excursion: Distance & Direction of Sound (4:44)

Frequency Masking (6:14)

Subtractive vs Additive EQ (3:58)

How The Compressor Works (1) – Basics (14:25)

How The Compressor Works (2) – Snare Example (10:00)

How The Compressor Works (3) – Loop Example (8:50)

How The Compressor Works (4) – Different Compressor Types (5:13)

Multiband Side-Chaining (16:51)

Bonus Content (Updated)

What is Side-Chaining (10:36)

Bonus: Mixing Hip Hop Vocals 1: Gate + EQ (Guest Session) (4:27)

Bonus: Mixing Hip Hop Vocals 2: EQ + Compression (Guest Session) (7:16)

Bonus: Mixing Hip Hop Vocals 3: Reverb, Delay and Tricks (Guest Session) (14:44)

 

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