Courses by award winning mixing and mastering
engineer Mark Wingfield
Mixing Techniques that empower your creativity
Other modules cover the techniques and specifics of the processing used in professional mixing. This module however is about the art of mixing. The creative process, concepts and mindset necessary to create a great mix and techniques to get you into the all important mixing flow state.
You will start by learning perhaps the most important thing you need to be a great mixer. How to create and realise a vision for your mix. I break down an entire mix concentrating on the thinking behind the choices that create a professional level, album ready mix.
You will also learn a range of essential professional mixing practices. This includes some important advanced routing, signal flow techniques. You will learn: how to avoid common mixing mistakes, techniques to get the best out of your plugins and hardware, as well as how to speed up your work to help get you into that all important mix flow state.
Here’s what the module covers:
Finding your direction in a mix
We start with a raw recording straight from the studio and see how it is transformed into a high end album ready mix. The way this is achieved is by having a vision of how a mix should sound and how each instrument needs to be shaped to achieve that. In this module you will learn what a vision consists of and how you can find your own form and realise your vision about a mix to produce something .
We cover the following topics:
- How to approach a mix by creating a vision for how you want it to sound.
- We break down the mix instrument by instrument looking at how each was shaped to fit with the vision.
- You will learn how this method takes a muddy, cluttered and dull sounding recording and transforms it into a big, open, detailed album ready mix.
Routing masterclass
Mastery of routing is an essential tool to every mix engineer. You can’t mix effectively without understanding routing. You will learn everything you need to know about routing in modern mixing. This includes how to identify and solve the most common routing mixing issues as well as techniques for getting complete control of your mix using routing.
This module covers:
- The basics of routing and groups
- Correct routing of reverb and other parallel processing
- Why it’s not as simple as just using a send
- How to avoid the mixing issues that happen when the wrong routing structure is used
- Understanding the uses of different routing structures for different mixing situations
- Routing and automation
Gain staging
Gain staging is essential whether you are using software or hardware. Gain staging is not only essential for getting the right tone out of your hardware and plugins, it’s also very important for judging changes to your mix. In this module you will learn how to gain stage correctly.
This module covers:
- What gain staging is and why it’s so important to get right.
- How to set your gain staging levels correctly.
- Level matching, understanding why it’s essential and how to use it to avoid the most common mixing mistakes.
DAW Setup practices that empower your creativity
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This module covers:
- Why having a good a session setup is so important.
- How to optimise your session set up for a professional mixing workflow.
- Mix templates, when they are useful, when they are not and how to design one that works well for you.
- File naming and why getting it right is important.
Bonus video – Plugin management
Organising your plugins might not seem that important, but it can make all the difference in creating that all important mixing flow state. I explain why organising your plugin menus not only saves you time, but can free up your brain’s creative resources.
This module gives you everything you need to know to master compression and bring your mixing to the next level. Buy it here now.