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Mixing With Ableton Live
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7 hours 38 minutes
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Online - Self Paced
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About Mixing With Ableton Live
Mixing With Ableton Live
How We Will Learn
What Is Mixing?
What is Mastering?
Why Focus On The Listening Environment?
Finding Acoustic Problems
7 BuyingStudioMonitors V2
Monitor Setup
Monitor Settings
Adding a Subwoofer
Working With Headphones
My Less-Then-Perfect Setup
Multiple Monitors and Mono
The First Step in Mixing
Making a Session Copy
Tracking Down Extraneous Noises
Cleaning Up The Session
Tuning Instruments
Sorting Your Tracks
Grouping Tracks
Marking Sections
Creating Effect Busses
Compressors and Limiters
The Art of Mixing
The 3 Dimensions of Sound
The 3 Dimensions of Music
The Focus Element
Think Subtractive
Fighting Instruments
Finding a Starting Point
Setting Levels
The Noise Method
My Mix
My Mix - So Far
The Stereo Field
The Phantom Center
Rules for Panning
Phasing Tricks
Surround Sound Mixing
Panning on My Mix
Working with Frequencies
Reading a Frequency Spectrum
The 7 Common Frequency Bands
Working with the EQ
Creating Definition in a Sound with EQ - Method 1
Creating Definition in a Sound with EQ - Method 2
Cleaning Up the Mud
Making Room in the Mix
Adding a High Pass Filter
Frequencies to Watch Out For
Creating Space in the Mix
A Few Tricks
What is a Good Kick?
Is Anything Else Causing Problems?
Rebalancing
Using Effects in the Mix
What Actually is a Delay?
What Actually is a Reverb?
A Few Basic Guidelines
Bus Effects
Math! Calculating Delay Times
Feedback Settings
Delay Techniques for Vocals
Delay Techniques for Drums
Delay Techniques for Guitars
Does Our Track Need Any Delays?
Timing the Reverb Decay
Timing the Predelay
Bus Reverb Setup
Reverb Techniques for Vocals
Reverb Techniques for Drums
Reverb Techniques for Guitars and Synths
Putting It All Together
Modulation Effects
Flangers
Chorus
Tremolo and Vibrato
EQ Effects
Resampling
About Dynamics
Compression
Multiband Compression
Limiting
Gating
Using Compression
Variation Compensation
Compressors with EQ
Compressor Settings
Parallel Compression
Compressing Drums
Compressing Vocals
Compression on Groups
Compression on the Master
What is Focus?
The Groove
The Featured Element
Further Reading
The Most Important Rule in Mixing
One More Time...
Wrap Up
Thanks for Watching!
What You Will Learn?
- Welcome to Mixing With Ableton Live!.
- This class is for anyone who has made or recorded music and wondered why their tracks don't sound like the tracks they hear on the radio, Spotify, SoundCloud, or anywhere else. This is the missing link in your production workflow..
- In this class, we start with the very basics of mixing and work all the way up to finishing great tracks. I walk you through every step of the process and explain the logic behind every decision I make. I'll even walk you through a complete mix from beginning to end..
- The goal of this class is for you to learn how to take your tracks from good to great..
- Genre:I'm best known for working with electronic music, but I've designed this course to be as inclusive as possible when it comes to genre. We will talk about mixing techniques for all instruments, sounds, and styles. All genres are welcome here!.
- Topics Covered: .
- The Listening Environment.
- Headphone Mixing vs. Studio Monitors.
- Preparing a Track for Mixing.
- Tuning Instruments.
- Grouping Tracks.
- Approaches to Mixing.
- Subtractive Mixing.
- Panning.
- Phantom Center.
- Phasing.
- Working with Frequencies.
- The EQ as the Scalpel of Mixing.
- Creating Definition with EQ.
- The High Pass Filter Trick.
- Negotiating the Kick and Bass in the Mix.
- Creating Space with Delay Effects.
- Creating Space with Reverb Effects.
- Reverb Techniques for Vocals, Guitars, and Drums.
- Delay Techniques for Vocals, Guitars, and Drums.
- Compressors.
- Parallel Compression.
- Compression Techniques for Vocals, Guitars, and Drums.
- Finding the "Focus" of the Track.
- The Art in Mixing.
- And much, much more!.
- If you are ready to start making professional sounding tracks, this is the class that will start you on that journey. Get started today..
- Dr. Allen is a university music professor and is a top-rated online instructor - with nearly 100 courses and 270,000 students..
- In 2017 Star Tribune Business featured him as a "Mover and a Shaker," and he is recognized by the Grammy Foundation for his music education classes. .
- ** I guarantee that this course is the most thorough music history course available ANYWHERE on the market - or your money back (30-day money-back guarantee) **.
- Closed captions have been added to all lessons in this course..
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- Praise for Courses by Jason Allen:.
- ⇢ "It seems like every little detail is being covered in an extremely simple fashion. The learning process becomes relaxed and allows complex concepts to get absorbed easily. My only regret is not taking this course earlier." - M. Shah.
- ⇢ "Great for everyone without any knowledge so far. I bought all three parts... It's the best investment in leveling up my skills so far.." - Z. Palce.
- ⇢ "Excellent explanations! No more or less than what is needed." - A. Tóth.
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- ⇢ "I am learning LOTS! And I really like having the worksheets!" - A. Deichsel.
- ⇢ "The basics explained very clearly - loads of really useful tips!" - J. Pook.
- ⇢ "Jason is really quick and great with questions, always a great resource for an online class!" M. Smith.
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- Students who register for this course will receive ongoing exclusive content and discounts to all future classes in the series. .