The Zero To Hero Guide To Mixing In Ableton Live is a series of ebooks aimed to educate electronic music producers on a variety of different mixing techniques. Each book will focus on one of the key components of the mix process.
We’ll teach you step-by-step what goes into getting a great sounding pop rock mix! In this Mixing Pop Rock course we’ll be covering, Drums, Percussion, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, and Vocals. Effects used such as EQ, Compression, Reverb, Delay and Automation will be analyzed in detail. Throughout the mix Ian will also be introducing a number of production techniques to help add punch, color and excitement to your mixes, including Reinforcing your Drum Tracks with Samples, Splitting the Bass, adding Guitar Amp Plug-Ins to Enhance your Guitar Tone, Side-Chain Processing, Creative Bussing, Group Processing, the addition of Vocal Harmonies, Background Vocals and more. Section by section you’ll see and hear this song come to life – matching some of the best pop rock sounds out there.
Audio engineer is back with a deep look at the AIR Creative Collection of mixing and mastering FX plugins. Learn how these FX work and see them in-action in this 16-tutorial course. The German-engineered Air Creative Collection is one of the most diverse and fully-loaded libraries of FX in the DAW marketplace. This course, by trainer, explains and explores the tools you primarily use in the mixing and mastering process.
In the final instalment of their three-part series, producers Chris Octane and Liam O’Mullane (aka colo[r]) invite you to join them in their studio to complete the arrangement and mix of their atmospheric DnB track. In the third and final instalment, the duo complete the the track – adding new melodic and rhythmic parts, creating FX sounds and vocal effects before completing the arrangement by creating a drop and extending the introduction. Next they move onto mixing, showing the incredible level of detail the pros go into when it comes to sound design and texture. Concluding the series is a module on mastering, where colo[r] show you how to reign in the transients, define the bass and add stereo wideness.
The second part of this course we will give you some essential tips on working with bass elements in your mix
Want to learn some Studio One pro mixing techniques? There’s no better way than to watch an expert do it! See Alex Solano cook up a Big Room track in PreSonus’ Studio One 3 in this 15-tutorial, EDM mixing course. Everybody has their own approach to mixing. It’s like cooking, where every great chef has their own special recipe. In this case, our “chef” is audio expert Alex Solano and our recipe is for a Big Room track! Alex takes us through his Studio One 3 workflow as he tweaks every ingredient that makes up this dance music production “entrée”.
Star mixer Koen Heldens has worked on tracks for Beyonce, Lil Wayne, Rhianna, Missy Elliot, and scores more. Koen is in high demand because when he mixes “in the box” it sounds like he’s behind a mega-console with a ton of analog outboard gear. See how Koen does it as he shares some of his juiciest EDM mixing secrets! Koen approaches mixing in a very organized way, and he starts out on how to process the kick drum in order to get that punchy EDM kick sound. He then demonstrates how you can craft the perfect snare and clap sounds with punch and presence, and then explores how to process toms, overheads and the drum group, finishing up drum processing duties.
