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Mix course 2023

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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

Session 02. Preamps.

  • 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

Clase 05. Compressors.

  • Essential parts
  • Using the compressor
  • Attack and release time
  • Knee and Side-Chain
  • Kinds of compression, choices and uses
  • Harmonic distortion

Clase 06. Transients.

  • 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

Clase 09. Panning.

  • 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

Clase 12. Time Effects.

  • Delay
  • Echo
  • Flanger
  • Phaser
  • Chorus
  • Mono effects

Clase 13. Gain 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

Clase 16. Channel Strip.

  • 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

Clase 17. Vocals.

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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

Clase 20. The Mixbus.

  • 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

Clase 22. Automation.

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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