Mixing & Mastering Course | Barcelona
EQ, Environment, Acoustics, and Separation
- →Studio monitor speaker design
- →Acoustics and acoustically treating your home studio
- →All about mono, stereo and 5.1 in your software DAW
- →The art of balancing and panning
- →EQ workshop
Dynamics
- →Hearing dynamics
- →In-depth with all the parameters of dynamic controllers
- →Types of compression circuitry, their digital emulations, what to use & why
- →Parallel dynamic processing
- →Gates and de-essing tips
- →Dynamics controller tips to achieve clarity in your mix
Reverbs, Delays and Other FX
- →Types of reverb and delay, where to use them
- →In-depth with all the parameters
- →Spatialization with convolution reverbs and delays
- →Phaser, flanger, chorus, pitch shifters, harmonizers and creative FX
- →Tips on how to make your records come to life with FX
- →Filtering and samples
- →Vocoder, Ring Modulators, Envelopers, Auto panning, distortion and bit crushing
- →Preparing vocals, vocal comping and tuning vocals
- →Getting separation between lead and BVs
- →Tips on automating levels (rides)
Mixing Electronic Music
- →Side-chaining dynamic controllers and filters for ducking, FX and punch
- →Getting creative with reverb and delay
- →Making thin sounds bigger
- →Mixing techniques which only apply to electronic music but are very useful to know for everyone
- →Electronic music listening critique (bring in your tracks if you wish)
- →Electronic music mix analytics – analyze the mix elements of your favorite tunes
Introduction to Mastering
- →Using references to get your EQ and separation. A/B'ing
- →EQ, brick wall limiting, levels and phase
- →Using mastering plugins - dos and don'ts
- →The best metering tools
- →Live music listening critique (bring in your tracks if you wish)
- →Live music mix analytics – analyze the mix elements of your favorites live and acoustic tracks
In our students' words.
“I won't change anything. I learned and enjoyed a lot! Good location and neighborhood, nice people and easy parking.”
Mono Villa
Some Instructors
Before you enrol.
Intermediate. You should know your way around your DAW; the course takes you from that to mixes that translate and a master that finishes them.
Yes - ask admissions about private instruction and we will pair you with a specialist in this subject.
The length is in the glance strip at the top of this page, and the tuition for this campus - with the registration fee and any early-booking rate - sits just above the call to action.
Yes. Sessions run in person at this campus and live online at the same time, so you join whichever suits you.
Yes - the mastering module here is an introduction; a dedicated Mastering class takes it the rest of the way.
Environment, acoustics and EQ, dynamics, reverbs, delays and other FX, mixing vocals, creative mixing, analysis and the final mix, and an introduction to mastering.
36 Hours | In-Person: €1299 + €100 Registration fee | Online Remote Attendance: €803
Ready when you are.
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Dynamics
The human ear uses compression for pretty much the same reasons that we do in music, that being to control the level of an audio signal. As you may…
Read →Equalization
Shelving, peak and graphic EQ, what lives in each frequency band, and how to cut and boost - with starting points for kick, snare and bass.
Read →Recording Techniques – Putting The Courses Into Practice
Logic and Mixing learner Nick Burns (Captain Mermaid) tells us how he put the recording techniques he learnt on the Logic course and even the Mixing course into practice when he recorded and mixed this collaboration with singer Rebekah Anne Steele. "I used two SE small capsule condenser microphones
Read →Signal Flow
Channel level is another important aspect of mixing, which begins to flesh itself out during the EQ’ing process. As each new element is introduced for…
Read →Vocals
Dynamic control is an essential part of recording vocals. The best dynamic control is achieved from someone who knows good mic technique, getting closer…
Read →Filtering
There are many ways to access the power of filtering, but probably the easiest is to use a plug-in. Logic’s AutoFilter is a good example of Emagic’s…
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