Advanced EDM Mixing

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

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