Audio Mixing Bootcamp

Reveals industry tips, tricks, and techniques for producing professionally mixed audio.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Improving Your Listening Environment

• Determining the listening position
• Fixing acoustic problems
• Setting up your monitors

2. Prepping Your Mix

• Setting up your session
• Setting up your subgroups
• Setting up your effects

3. Learning the Basics of Mixing

• Developing the groove
• Emphasizing the most important elements
• Knowing what to avoid

4. Building Your Mix

• Learning the principles of building a mix
• Assigning the drums to a subgroup
• Building the mix from the kick
• Building the mix from the snare
• Building the mix from the toms
• Building the mix from the overhead mics
• Checking the drum phase
• Balancing direct and miked bass channels
• Building the mix from the bass
• Building the mix from the vocals
• Balancing the rhythm section
• Balancing the rest of the instruments with the rhythm section
• Making a mix without building it
• Balancing the harmony vocals

5. Panning

• Looking at the three main panning areas
• Panning the drums
• Avoiding pseudo-stereo

6. Exploring Compression

• Understanding compressor parameters
• Setting up the compressor
• Compressing the drums
• Compressing the room mics
• Compressing the bass
• Using the New York compression trick
• Compressing the clean electric guitars
• Compressing the distorted electric guitars
• Compressing the acoustic guitars
• Compressing the piano
• Compressing the electric keyboards
• Compressing the vocals
• Compressing the horns

7. Using Noise Gates and De-Essers

• Learning noise gate basics
• Using the noise gate on guitars
• Using the noise gate on drums
• Learning de-esser basics
• Using the de-esser on vocals

8. Learning About EQ

• Understanding equalizer parameters
• Learning subtractive equalization
• Learning frequency juggling
• Using the magic high-pass filter
• Learning the principles of equalization

9. Applying EQ to the Rhythm Section

• Equalizing the kick
• Equalizing the snare
• Equalizing the rack toms
• Equalizing the floor tom
• Equalizing the hi-hat
• Equalizing the cymbal or the overhead mics
• Equalizing the room mics
• Equalizing the bass
• Editing the bass rhythm
• Equalizing the rhythm section

10. Applying EQ to the Instruments

• Equalizing the electric guitar
• Equalizing the acoustic guitar
• Equalizing the hand percussion
• Equalizing the lead vocals
• Equalizing the background vocals
• Equalizing the piano
• Equalizing the organ
• Equalizing the strings
• Equalizing the horns

11. Understanding Reverb

• Learning the principles of reverb
• Understanding reverb parameters
• Timing the reverb to the track
• Equalizing the reverb
• Using the two-reverb quick setup
• Using the three-reverb setup

12. Adding Reverb

• Adding reverb to the drums
• Adding reverb to the vocals
• Adding reverb to the guitars
• Adding reverb to the piano
• Adding reverb to the organ
• Adding reverb to the strings
• Adding reverb to the horns
• Adding reverb to the percussion
• Using reverb to layer the mix

13. Adding Delay

• Learning delay principles
• Understanding delay parameters
• Timing the delay to the track
• Using delay timing variations
• Equalizing the delay
• Understanding the Haas effect
• Using the three-delay setup
• Adding delay to the vocals
• Using delay to layer the mix

14. Adding Modulation Effects

• Understanding the types of modulation
• Understanding modulation parameters
• Modulating the guitars
• Modulating the keyboards
• Modulating the vocals
• Modulating the strings

15. The Final Mix

• Mixing with subgroups
• Using mix buss compression
• Understanding the evils of hypercompression

Conclusion

• Goodbye