Mixing & Mastering Electronic Music

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Mixing Electronic music comes with its own unique set of challenges and possibilities, since every sound has been artificially created.

In this course I'll teach you everything I know about this process, in as much depth as I can.

We will begin with an in-depth discussion of the ideas behind mixing and try to see what Psychoacoustics, the science of listening, can teach us about this process.

Here we will learn about foundational ideas, such as:

The Perception of Loudness

Masking, the ways in which sounds can get in eachothers way

The perception of space, depth & direction

Glue & Separation, the way we perceptually group different sounds or distinguish them as separate.

Effects can use to let our listener read between the line, fill in missing information

And finally, the ways in which our perception & biases can fool us.

Every Mix is different, there are no one size fits all solutions.

This is why I will show you the full process of mixing 3 different songs from start to finish.

Each one of them will present its own unique set of challenges for us to solve, using the theory and techniques we discussed in the first part of the course and combining them with intuition and creative vision.

During the practical part of the course, we will discuss a wide variety of challenges as they come up, such as:

Gain Staging & Loudness

Frequency Balance

Mix Structure

Masking & Cleanup

Harshness & Resonances

Transient & Dynamic Management

Macrodynamics & Enhancing Musical Gestures

Directing the Listeners Attention

Creating Space & Cohesion

After some more in depth lessons covering clipping, limiting & dither, the essential tools of the trade,

we will move on to mastering the 3 songs.

Here we will bring them to their final loudness and optimise them for playback on a wide variety of systems.

Just like with mixing, every master is different, we need to meet the sound where it's at.

Making songs loud is easy, but archieving competitive loudness while preserving a sense of dynamics, detail & fidelity is a less trivial task.

This is not an introductory course for those who have never touched an equalizer. Some basic experience with using a DAW is expected, as we will be going in a lot of depth about the process of mixing & mastering.