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.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Mixing Secrets

• Mix room acoustics
• Mixing with multiple speakers
• Cutting frequencies
• Prepping vocal takes for mixing
• Parallel drum buss compression
• Preparing the drum tracks for mixing
• Drum mixing

2. Sound Processing Secrets

• Gating audio for noise elimination
• Gating audio for creative and musical purposes
• Using analog tape delay for vocals
• Creating and using backwards reverb in a DAW
• Why compress?
• Re-amping guitars
• Re-amping bass
• Re-amping drums
• Re-amping vocals
• Re-amping a Leslie speaker cabinet

Conclusion

• What's next?