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Session 01. Gain Staging. Measuring tools.
- Gain Staging
- Sampling rate and bit depth
- Peak and RMS Meter
- The K-System
- Spectrum analyzers
- Goniometer
- What is a Preamp?
- How to use it
- Advantages
- Coloration
Session 03. Filters and EQs.
- Frequency range
- Kinds of filter
- Shelving EQ
- Parametric EQ
- Paragraphic EQ
- Graphic EQ
- EQ choices and uses
Session 04. Advanced EQ and phase displacement.
- The EQ balance
- Choosing harmonics or fundamental
- Low end problems
- Linear phase EQ
- Choosing different EQs
- Push down resonances
- Essential parts
- Using the compressor
- Attack and release time
- Knee and Side-Chain
- Kinds of compression, choices and uses
- Harmonic distortion
- What is a transient
- The Importance of the transient
- Transients inside compression
- Broke Transient
- Localize the transient in a compressor
- Punishing the transient vs keeping the transient
- Punishing transients and changing position/weight
- Managing dynamics on sounds without transients
- Tools for recover transients
- Smack Attack
- Transient Shaper
- Transient Designer
- Layering with transients
- Transients & position inside the mix
- Removing bad transients (Clicks)
Clase 07. Gate and expanders.
- Gates
- Gates terminology
- Range / Floor
- Gate Open
- Attack
- Release
- Gate Close
- Hold
- Help view for Gates
- Identifying the bad transient
- The Lookahead
- Using different Gate plugins
- Controlling Reverbs with Gates
- Gates w/ more musical results
- Expander
- Using Ratio for expand purposes
- Expanding Transients
- Gate plus Expander
- When is important to use a expander?
- Expanding focused frequencies
- Expansion With Layering
- Expansion, Gate and Layering
- How to manage the Layer
- Valorations
Clase 08. Advanced compression.
- Upward compression
- Downward compression
- Comparative
- Microdinamics and macrodinamics
- Serial compression
- Parallel compression
- Monitor Placement
- Panning & Stereo position
- The Panning law
- Panning & sounds weight
- Looking for balance in the stereo field
- Mono compatible mix
- Problems with wide stereo sounds
- Fixing the Anti-Phase Problem
- Using Layers for fix the wide sounds
- The sounds weight at panning
- Obtain balance panning sounds
- Managing panning layers
- Multi-band wide fixing
- Looking for Anti-phase sounds
- Multi-band wide fixing 2
- Changing a sound initial position
Clase 10. Reverb (1 by 2).
- The enclosure’s sound
- Reverb’s properties
- Early reflections and tail reverb
- Principle of masking
- The Hass effect
Clase 11. Reverb (2 by 2).
- Pre-Delay
- Reverb masking problems
- How to change the sound position
- Side-Chain inside Reverb
- Types of Vibration based Reverb
- Plates
- Weight related to plates
- Setting up a plate reverb
- Background & Plate reverb
- Spring Reverb
- Spring Reverb Controls
- The Spring Zap
- Spring Reverb & Space
- Spring reverb & Sounds with hard transient
- Combining different reverbs
- Chambers
- Pre-delay w/ Chambers
- The reverb concept in the mix
- Algorithm based reverbs
- Avoiding the masking reverb effect
- Target with the reverb
- Unreal spaces with reverb
- Extended Reverbs
- Removing transients in the reverb
- Setup the length of the tail reverb
- Mono Reverbs
- Convolution reverbs
- Delay
- Echo
- Flanger
- Phaser
- Chorus
- Mono effects
- Overdrive, Distortion and Fuzz
- Tube emulation
- Aural exciters
- Choices and uses
Clase 14. Tape emulations.
- Kinds of Tapes
- Bias
- Choices and uses
Clase 15. Advanced techniques.
- M/S
- Noise reduction
- Transients recovery
- Layering
- Eq and Comp vs Comp and Eq
- Phase and Anti-phase fixing
- Mono compatibility in a stereo mix
- The importance of mono sound inside the mix
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- Vocal treatment
- Vocal channel strip
- Vocal layers
- Lead Vocals and second vocals
- Choirs
Clase 18. Sends, Groups, Busses and VCA’s.
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- Working with groups
- Differences between sends and busses
- Busses process
- Using VCA’s
Clase 19. Advanced dynamics.
- Auto Release Bus Compressor
- Multiband Compressor
- Multiband Compressors & Top Frequencies
- Top Frequencies envelope w/ Multiband Comp
- Expanding frequencies w/ Multiband compressor
- Baxandall EQ & Multiband compressor
- Shelving EQ & Multiband compressor
- Air EQ & Multiband compressor
- Limiters
- Managing peak measure w/ Limiters
- Limiter and soft clipping
- Managing Algorithms on Limiters
- Lack of signal by Limiters
- Dynamic EQ
- Avoid masking w/ Dynamic EQ
- Managing attack w/ Dynamic EQ
- Control Frequencies w/ Dynamic EQ
- What is the mixbus?
- The mixbus target
- Choosing a Chain
- Valorations and uses
Clase 21. Psychoacoustics.
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- Sound pressure level
- Pitch
- Sonority
- Timbre
- Formants
- Masking
- The perception of the Mid range
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- The importance of automation
- Faders automation
- Plugins automation
- Microdynamic developments
- Macrodynamic developments
- Fade In & Fade Out
Clase 23. General Approaches.
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- The importance of noise
- Choosing between noise and clean sound
- Dark mixes vs bright mixes
- Clean mix vs creative mix
- Dynamic mixes, hot mixes and dynamic range
- Kick and Bass
- Strings and Pads
Clase 24. Reference listenings.
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- The Loudness War
- The PLR
- Levels for send to mastering
- Essential Records
- Ear training