Learn How to Mix Electronic Dance Music With Free Plugins

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Everything You Need For This Course

Lecture 1: Welcome to This Course

Lecture 2: About Your Course Feedback

Lecture 3: Download Project Files

Lecture 4: Plugin Download List

Chapter 2: General Introduction and Definitions

Lecture 1: Differences Between the Mixing and Mastering Processes

Lecture 2: Digital Audio

Lecture 3: Digital File Formats

Lecture 4: Analog Audio

Lecture 5: How To Read Meters – Decibel, dBFS, dBVU, Peak Definitions

Lecture 6: How To Read Meters – RMS, Crest Factor, Dynamic Range, Loudness Definitions

Lecture 7: Gain Staging and Headroom Definitions

Lecture 8: Calibrate Your Meter (MOscillator)

Lecture 9: Import Tracks and Gain Staging (optional Blue Cat Gain)

Chapter 3: Prepare The Project

Lecture 1: Create Your Reference

Lecture 2: Tracks Ordering With Color Scheme

Lecture 3: Tracks Grouping

Chapter 4: Understand and Treat Your Listening Environment

Lecture 1: The Listening Environment Intro (Trust Your Mix)

Lecture 2: The Listening Environment – Early Reflections

Lecture 3: The Listening Environment – Modes and SBIR

Lecture 4: How to Place Your Monitors

Lecture 5: Calibrate Your Speakers

Lecture 6: Note About Speaker Calibration Software

Lecture 7: Headphones Vs. Ear Buddies

Lecture 8: How to Build Your Own Absorption Panels

Chapter 5: Drum Tuning

Lecture 1: A Good Starting Point

Lecture 2: Drum Tuning Theory

Lecture 3: The Perfect Kick

Lecture 4: Span Introduction

Lecture 5: Kick Drum Tuning

Lecture 6: Bass Tuning

Lecture 7: Drum Tuning Made Easy

Lecture 8: Just a Little Note

Chapter 6: Cleaning Up The Mix – Theory

Lecture 1: Parametric EQ intro

Lecture 2: Yin Yang Effect

Lecture 3: Fighting Instruments

Lecture 4: Finding Masking Freqs With Span

Lecture 5: The Pink Noise Theory

Chapter 7: Cleaning Up The Mix – Practice

Lecture 1: Cleaning up the Ride

Lecture 2: Cleaning Up The Crash

Lecture 3: Creating Space for the Kick

Lecture 4: Cleaning Up The 989 Open Hat

Lecture 5: More About the Electronic Kick Drum

Lecture 6: Treating the Kick Drum

Lecture 7: Clap With Passion Part 1

Lecture 8: Clap With Passion Part 2

Lecture 9: Clap With Passion Part 3 + Gate

Lecture 10: How Would You Treat the Open Hat?

Lecture 11: Here’s How I would Treat it

Lecture 12: Open with Passion Part 2

Lecture 13: Cleaning Up the Closed Hat

Lecture 14: Treating the Closed Hat Add

Lecture 15: Treating the Vocal Sample

Lecture 16: How To Make Better Vocals

Lecture 17: Cleaning The Strings

Lecture 18: Last Cleanings With The Sweep Technique

Chapter 8: General Balance and Stereo Management

Lecture 1: Stereo and Mono Explained

Lecture 2: How to Create Stereo

Lecture 3: Other Mixing Suggestions

Lecture 4: How to Avoid Loss of Objectivity

Lecture 5: General Balancing and Summing Units

Lecture 6: The 3 dB Trick (Resources to Download)

Lecture 7: Spectral Curve Comparison

Lecture 8: Kick and Bass Separation

Lecture 9: Stereo Image and Rules of Panning

Lecture 10: Controlling the Kick Add Image

Lecture 11: Final Stereo Check

Chapter 9: The Dynamic Processing: Compressors Theory

Lecture 1: Dynamic Processing Intro

Lecture 2: Compression Goals

Lecture 3: Compressor Controls

Chapter 10: Compression Basics – How to Set a Compressor

Lecture 1: How To Set a Compressor Operating Level

Lecture 2: How To Set a Compressor – Attack, Release, Threshold, Ratio and Gain

Chapter 11: Other Compression Techniques

Lecture 1: The Side Chain Compression

Lecture 2: How to Get a Fat Kick

Lecture 3: Add a Transient Shaper

Lecture 4: Kick Drum Compression and EQ

Lecture 5: Parallel Compression on Drums

Lecture 6: Parallel Distortion on Bass

Lecture 7: Parallel Compression on Instruments

Lecture 8: Master Fader Compression

Lecture 9: Master Fader Compression Side Chain Technique