Mixing & Mastering Class | New York
Environment, Acoustics, EQ and Separation
- →Studio monitor speaker design
- →Acoustics and acoustically treating your home studio for Mixing and Mastering
- →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 and why
- →Parallel dynamic processing
- →Gates and de-essing tips
- →Dynamics controller tips to achieve clarity in your mix
Reverbs, Delays, Modulation and Creative 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
Vocals, Automation and Getting Creative in the Mix Process
- →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
Intro to Mastering and Finalizing your project for release
- →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 favorite live and acoustic tracks
In our students' words.
“Private time with my instructor meant we could slow right down on the mixing techniques I was stuck on and skip past everything I already knew - nothing generic, nothing I'd already covered elsewhere.”
James Okafor
Instructors
Before you enrol.
Yes - ask admissions about mixing and mastering private instruction and we will pair you with a specialist.
36 hours. Tuition is $1,799 when you book 14 or more days ahead, or $2,099 after that, plus a $200 registration fee.
Yes. Every session runs from our Manhattan and Brooklyn studios and live online at the same time, so you join whichever suits you.
The techniques apply across genres, and there is a dedicated module on mixing electronic music - side-chaining, creative reverb and delay, and making thin sounds bigger.
A laptop with your DAW installed, and a working understanding of that DAW and of production basics - this is an intermediate-level course, not a first one.
$1,799 (14+ days out) / $2,099 otherwise, + $200 registration
Ready when you are.
InquireAcoustics: The Basics
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Read →Basic panning techniques
The term stereo, short for stereophonic, involves the reproduction of sound using two separate audio channels that are then presented to a pair of…
Read →Dynamics
How compression works - attack, release, knee and look-ahead - plus noise gates and limiting, and what each is actually for.
Read →Mixing Desk Basics
Subgrouping a mix, using reference tracks properly, and keeping your monitoring level honest over a long session.
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 →Delay
From tape echoes to ping-pong delays: the parameters, how to match delay time to tempo, and using delay as a real mixing tool.
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