Mixing & Mastering Class | New York
Environment, Acoustics, EQ and Separation
- →Studio monitor speaker design
- →Acoustics and acoustically treating your home studio for Mixing and Mastering
- →All about mono, stereo and 5.1 in your software DAW
- →The art of balancing and panning
- →EQ workshop
Dynamics
- →Hearing dynamics
- →In-depth with all the parameters of dynamic controllers
- →Types of compression circuitry, their digital emulations, what to use and why
- →Parallel dynamic processing
- →Gates and de-essing tips
- →Dynamics controller tips to achieve clarity in your mix
Reverbs, Delays, Modulation and Creative FX
- →Types of reverb and delay, where to use them
- →In-depth with all the parameters
- →Spatialization with convolution reverbs and delays
- →Phaser, flanger, chorus, pitch shifters, harmonizers and creative FX
- →Tips on how to make your records come to life with FX
Vocals, Automation and Getting Creative in the Mix Process
- →Filtering and samples
- →Vocoder, Ring Modulators, Envelopers, Auto panning, distortion and bit crushing
- →Preparing vocals, vocal comping and tuning vocals
- →Getting separation between lead and BVs
- →Tips on automating levels (rides)
Mixing Electronic Music
- →Side-chaining dynamic controllers and filters for ducking, FX and punch
- →Getting creative with reverb and delay
- →Making thin sounds bigger
- →Mixing techniques which only apply to electronic music but are very useful to know for everyone
- →Electronic music listening critique (bring in your tracks if you wish)
- →Electronic music mix analytics - analyze the mix elements of your favorite tunes
Intro to Mastering and Finalizing your project for release
- →Using references to get your EQ and separation, A/B-ing
- →EQ, brick wall limiting, levels and phase
- →Using mastering plugins - dos and don'ts
- →The best metering tools
- →Live music listening critique (bring in your tracks if you wish)
- →Live music mix analytics - analyze the mix elements of your favorite live and acoustic tracks
In our students' words.
“Private time with my instructor meant we could slow right down on the mixing techniques I was stuck on and skip past everything I already knew - nothing generic, nothing I'd already covered elsewhere.”
James Okafor
Instructors
Before you enrol.
Yes - ask admissions about mixing and mastering private instruction and we will pair you with a specialist.
36 hours. Tuition is $1,799 when you book 14 or more days ahead, or $2,099 after that, plus a $200 registration fee.
Yes. Every session runs from our Manhattan and Brooklyn studios and live online at the same time, so you join whichever suits you.
The techniques apply across genres, and there is a dedicated module on mixing electronic music - side-chaining, creative reverb and delay, and making thin sounds bigger.
A laptop with your DAW installed, and a working understanding of that DAW and of production basics - this is an intermediate-level course, not a first one.
$1,799 (14+ days out) / $2,099 otherwise, + $200 registration
Ready when you are.
InquireModulation
We have discussed the most common modulation effects such as chorus, flanging and phasing. Now it is time to investigate other modulation effects.
Read →Filtering
There are many ways to access the power of filtering, but probably the easiest is to use a plug-in. Logic’s AutoFilter is a good example of Emagic’s…
Read →Mixing Desk Basics
Now we have an environment that isn’t coloring what we hear we can start to look at how we can improve the mix itself.
Read →Basic Panning Techniques
How to place instruments across the stereo field, why the low end stays centred, and how to avoid phase cancellation and masking.
Read →Vocals
Dynamic control is an essential part of recording vocals. The best dynamic control is achieved from someone who knows good mic technique, getting closer…
Read →Mid/Side and Stereo Width
Mid is what the two channels share, side is what they do not. Splitting a mix that way lets you treat the centre and the edges separately - and it is the most common professional move that never appears in a beginner's mix.
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