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.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching

1. The Basics of Pop Music Mixing

• Beginning a mix
• Customizing your own mix template
• Volume, panning, EQ and dynamics basics
• Ambience, modulation, and harmonics plugins
• Achieving a good raw balance

2. Signal Processing Techniques for Pop Music

• Understanding signal processing order
• Kick drum processing techniques
• Snare drum processing
• Tom toms and cymbals processing
• Drum room mics processing
• Lead vocal processing techniques
• Background vocal processing techniques
• Gain processing using EQ and dynamics
• Treating the bass guitar
• Treating synth bass sounds
• Making electric guitars sing with compression, EQ, and reverb
• Placing acoustic grand piano in the mix
• Carefully crafting the keyboards
• Choosing the right EQ for the acoustic guitar
• Taming and then featuring percussion
• Mixing real and sampled strings
• Treating real live brass
• Parallel compression techniques

Conclusion

• Next steps