Become a Mix Engineer

Make your mark on the music business as a mix engineer. Discover how to produce professionally mixed audio on any digital audio workstation, and combine traditional and cutting-edge recording techniques.

• Learn essential audio and recording principles.
• Practice utilizing EQ and compression effectively.
• Apply reverb, delay, and creative effects to your tracks.

• Course 1: Audio and Music Production Careers: First Steps
• Learn about the jobs, equipment, DAWs, and training you need to get started down an audio learning path.
• Course 2: Audio Mixing Bootcamp
• Reveals industry tips, tricks, and techniques for producing professionally mixed audio.
• Course 3: Audio Foundations: Compression and Dynamic Processing
• Shows how to improve the sound of a mix using compressors, limiters, gates, de-essers, and other dynamic processors.
• Course 4: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters
• Shows how to properly apply equalization (EQ) to improve the sound of a mix.
• Course 5: Audio Foundations: Reverb
• Explains one of the most essential ingredients in audio mixing, reverb—the time it takes for sound to bounce, echo, and decay during a live performance or recording.
• Course 6: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation
• The fundamentals of delay and modulation effects and how to apply these effects, technically and creatively, to improve the sound of a mix.
• Course 7: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Mixing
• Join Larry Crane, producer behind albums by The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Jenny Lewis, and Sleater-Kinney, shows you how to get more life and energy out of your existing tracks.
• Course 8: Drum Mixing: Techniques
• GRAMMY-winning producer Ryan Hewitt explains his techniques for mixing radio-ready drum sounds with any DAW or console.
• Course 9: Mixing a Modern Jazz Track
• Learn the mixing techniques Grammy-winning producer Dave Darlington uses to transform raw audio tracks into great jazz mixes.
• Course 10: Mixing an EDM Track
• Learn how to mix a solid EDM track from raw material with Dave Darlington's Grammy-winning techniques.
• Course 11: Advanced EDM Mixing
• Learn advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment, to make your tracks sound fat, wide, and full.
• Course 12: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
• Interested in producing the next chart-topping pop song? Multi-platinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf demonstrates his hit-making song mixing techniques.