Lessons
19
Videos
19
Skill Level
All
Duration
2:5h
Language
English
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Overview
This course is an in-depth, step-by-step guide to achieve professional-sounding recordings and mixes. The videos for this class will walk you through the thought process of a professional audio engineer as he records and mixes a singer/songwriter playing acoustic guitar.
YOU WILL LEARN
- Sound Pressure Levels (SPL)
- Microphone Types and Polar Patterns
- Critical Listening
- Steps to a Great Mix
- The Mixing Environment
- Recording Rhythm Acoustic Guitars
- Recording Lead Guitar
- Recording the Lead Vocal
- Recording Vocal Harmonies
- Double Tracking Guitars and Vocals
- Mixing Guitars
- Mixing Vocal Harmonies
- Use of Expander and Gates on Live Drums to Reduce Bleed
- The Final Mix
- Equalization, Compression and Volume Automation
You will also learn
The basic principles of acoustics and sound treatment, microphone types, polar patterns, mic’ing techniques, ways to avoid sound leakage, and the best way to use effects, including EQ, compression, reverb, delay, and saturation. Two major recording styles are shown: live recording and multi-tracking.
Who is the course for?
Singers, songwriters, aspiring music producers, musicians and beginning to intermediate recording engineers.
COURSE PREVIEW
Learning Path
- Introduction
- Raw Audio files to Practice.
Video 0:49 Min
- Microphone Types
- Polar Patterns
- Sound Pressure Levels
- Sound Leakage
Video 10:01 Min
In this lecture we’ll discuss a set of ways to attain good levels for a singer/songwriter performing live. We’ll also show how to attain a signal that is loud enough to mask the noise floor, but not so loud it distorts. An important tool used to achieve this is compression.
Video 11:49 Min
This quiz will help you evaluate your understanding of previous lectures.
We’re ready to start recording. When recording the artist listen for the best performance. Have the artist perform the song several times, recording each pass. You’re listening for the best and most emotionally compelling simultaneous vocal and guitar performance.
Video 3:28 Min
Before we dip into mixing the song for this section we want to cover a few steps and guidelines we recommend that will help you throughout the mixing process. The “Perfect Mix” is a final product that you’re happy and/or that your client is happy with.
Video 3:28 Min
In this lecture we will be discussing the major mix elements and concepts of a mix that will help define our sound for a singer/songwriter who recorded live. We will start by applying these elements to the guitar, then we will apply them to the vocals.
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Make sure to listen to the changes we’ve made. One of the most important parts of audio recording is training your ears!
Video 3:33 Min
Overview of Mixing a singer/songwriter playing an acoustic guitar who we recorded live.
Listening to the Mix
Audio 3:33 Min
Before we start multi-tracking, In this lecture, we’re going to discuss room acoustics and how it can affect your sound. It’s very important to be aware of your acoustic surroundings.
Click Here and read more about Musical Acoustics.
Video 4:22 Min
As opposed to Lesson 1, we’ll be multi-tracking instead of capturing a live performance. So in this section, we’ll be recording the guitar twice, capturing two different passes with two differential tonal sounds while ensuring our recordings are phase coherent. This will end up giving us more mix options later. We’ll demonstrate a specific microphone technique and the microphones and polar patterns used to capture each pass.
Click Here and read more about Phase Coherence.
Click Here and read more about Phase Coherence.
Video 0:49 Min
Since the beginning of this class, we’ve been using the same song. We started out recording a live performance, and at this point, we’re now multi-tracking, which gives us the option to have additional production to our song. In this lecture, we will be recording the lead guitar with the Mid-Side Technique, along with explaining what microphones we used and why.
Video 4:02 Min
In this lecture, we’ll discuss specific techniques used to record vocals for this song: microphone choice, acoustics/isolation, and positioning.
Click Here and read more on Vocal Production.
Video 5:07 Min
In this quiz we will overview a few recording concepts and techniques used to multi-track a singer/songwriter with an acoustic guitar.
An explanation of a DeEsser and how to apply it to your mixes.
Video 2:02 Min
Our goal is to maximize separation and contrast between parts while blending all parts together into one compelling mix. We began this during tracking by recording each element separately and cleanly. As in lesson one, we’ll be adding some of the major mix elements to achieve our desired sound. Note: This mix will be handled differently than lesson 1. Mixes change anytime you record differently or add any extra production.
Video 9:23 Min
Our goal is to maximize separation and contrast between parts while blending all parts together into one compelling mix. We began this during tracking by recording each element separately and cleanly. As in lesson one, we’ll be adding some of the major mix elements to achieve our desired sound. Note: This mix will be handled differently than lesson 1. Mixes change anytime you record differently or add any extra production.
Click Here and read more about Finalizing Your Mix.
Video 16:00 Min
Make sure to listen to the changes we’ve made. One of the most important parts of audio recording is training your ears!
Audio 3:25 Min
In this lecture, we’re introducing additional production to our song by adding vocal harmonies. This will be the final touch to our song.
Click Here to read more on Harmonies.
Video 3:22 Min
In this lecture, we’re introducing additional production to our song by adding vocal harmonies. This will be the final touch to our song.
Click Here to read more on Harmonies.
Video 12:46 Min
Make sure to listen to the changes we’ve made. One of the most important parts of audio recording is training your ears!
Audio 3:25 Min
We will be overviewing how we recorded and mixed the vocals into Section 2’s mix.
What people are saying
183 Real User Reviews
1,438 Enrollments
183 Real User Reviews
1,438 Enrollments
SOME FEEDBACK FROM REAL USERS
SOME FEEDBACK FROM REAL USERS
Chris Stansberry
Excellent walk thru. Very helpful if your mixing live recorded drums.
Tom Browser
Good way to get started editing and mixing real acoustic drums.
Ron Or-El
A bit outdated
Ayo Solanke
FANTASTIC
Plínio G B Ferreira
It is a good course. Exactly what I needed. Fast and objective course. To reinforce my knowledge.
Najeeb Aftab
The course covers a lot of ground, but it should CLEARLY mention that this is a course on drum mixing using PRO-TOOLS as a DAW…
Joshua Collazo
Excellent course in the basics of mixing drums for beginners!
Gerardo Eugenio Martínez
Excellent!!!
Mulomba K Luabeya
The instructor is one of the rarest to know about ‘Drum Kit Equalization’.
Congratulations
Emerson Oliveira
Nice content! But, i think, is very important to us to ad the tracks. Because we could to try the lectures.
Roberto Cardenas
It’s a very nice course. The drums sounds great,Could you open a second one, “part 2”, with reverb layers, delay, different rooms and mic technics.. maybe other percussion instruments. Best Regards.
Robert Baxter
Thanks, I gathered a lot of info regarding on how to mix drums. Please share more videos.
ABOUT THE INSTRUctor
Engineer Ian Sutton background:
Engineer/Producer Ian Sutton has worked with hundreds of artists and bands, including +44 (Mark Hoppus & Travis Barker), Fallout Boy, Rob Halford, and Frankie J, to name a few. Ian will thoroughly walk you through one of his most recent pop-rock mixes, revealing all sorts of creative mixing and production techniques he’s acquired through years of study and practice.
Ian Sutton is a graduate of The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences. He is Certified Pro in Apple’s Logic and Avid’s Pro Tools. Ian has also worked with the likes of +44 (Mark Hoppus & Travis Barker), Fallout Boy, Frankie J, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, T-Pain, Deepak Chopra, Jerry Lewis, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, and many more.
IMPORTANT!! WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON’T GET PROFESSIONAL HELP?
Well, ask yourself this, 3 months from now, how much better will my mixes sound? The reality is without proper training; they won’t sound much different. Yes, you can spend hours, days, and weeks trying to find YouTube clips online, but they only do so much. This mixing class has 4 hours of instruction from a professional Recording Studio with over 25 years of experience servicing some of the biggest bands in the world. Invest in something that matters, your passion for creating music! We’re the answer to help you get better.
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