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
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. The Mixing & Mastering Course can be taught one-to-one, in person in Barcelona or online, built around your own projects - ask admissions about private instruction.
The Mixing & Mastering Course runs 36 hours. Tuition at Garnish Barcelona: 36 Hours - In-Person: €1299 + €100 Registration fee - Online Remote Attendance: €803.
Yes. The Mixing & Mastering Course runs in person at Garnish Barcelona and live online in the same sessions, using our music collaboration software, Muse - 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.
InquireWhy train with us?
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…
Read →Signal Flow and Routing
Gain structure, why faders belong near unity, and how side-chain routing works - the plumbing that everything else in a mix sits on.
Read →What Are MIDI Interfaces?
All about MIDI The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard has had a profound impact on the music industry since its introduction in the early 1980s. MIDI allows electronic musical instruments, computers, and other digital equipment to communicate with each other, allowing for the creat
Read →Phaser & Flanger
What separates a phaser from a flanger, the parameters that matter on each, and how to use them without wrecking your mix.
Read →Mixing Desk Basics
Subgrouping a mix, using reference tracks properly, and keeping your monitoring level honest over a long session.
Read →Focal SM9 and Twin Studio Monitor Speaker Demo
Focal invited me to Dean Street Studios for a Focal SM9 and Twin Studio Monitor Speaker Demo ages ago, but I just haven't had time to write about them until now. When I walked into the room, the monitors were set up along with some NS10s like we have here for our mixing course. They looked massive w
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