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Learn the fundamentals of Audio Mixing and finish your first release-ready mix by the end of the course
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Sessions: 12
Location: Köpenicker Str. 6A, 10997 Berlin
“You can make a great track, but if the mix isn’t right, you won't get to your audience. It doesn't matter if you are playing at home or at Berghain". Legendary techno producer Abe Duque leads this 12 session course using his self-designed curriculum, which teaches his unique approach to mixing & mastering, with tips and tricks Abe has picked up over the decades of his career as a successful producer, performer, and mix engineer. This mixing course will teach you how to bring out the flavor in your productions, and to achieve a polished, professional mix right on your laptop, without the need for buying expensive studio gear. In this course we will cover:
- Frequency overview & the Science of Sound
- Principles of psychoacoustics
- Bussing, send + returns and setting up a mix template
- Metering and commercial/broadcast audio normalization protocols
- Gain staging, leveling, and headroom
- Common mixing plugins overview
- Order of operations in audio effects processing
- EQ and filters
- Compression + limiting
- Reverb + delay
- Mixing vocals: pitch correction, de-essing, coloration
- Panning and stereo imaging
- Finishing touches and bouncing to stereo
- Basic mastering
Learn from Berlin’s most accomplished instructors and artists:
- More Ableton Certified Trainers than any school worldwide
- Real-time instruction, student questions, and feedback
- Intimate class sizes (roughly 5 students) ensuring maximum student/instructor interaction
- Motivation and inspiration from experienced instructors with real industry success
- Online community forums to ask questions outside of the classroom and meet peers and collaborate
- Daily free community events
- 40% discount on Ableton Live and 20% discount on Ableton Push