Module 4 – Mixing A Track From Start To Finish from Francois

Module 4 – Mixing A Track From Start To Finish from Francois

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Francois – Module 4 – Mixing A Track From Start To Finish

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What you will learn from this course:

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Mix Preparation & First Balance

What is the musical idea of the song. Setting up your session for a great mixing workflow, order of tracks, grouping, creating busses. Identifying the most important section and instruments in your song.

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Avoid Common Mixing Errors

Referencing, “louder sounds better”-trap, finding the right mixing volume, subtractive vs additive EQ, dithering, phasing, awareness for resonances caused by your environment and many more.

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Bass Layers & Sub Bass Separation

Why mono bass, separating sub frequencies, kick-bass side-chaining techniques, multiband side-chaining, dynamic EQ, etc.
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Complete Mixing Process

After finding a first balance and an order for our mixing process we’re working our way through cleaning, gain staging, eqing, compressing, sound enhancing, bussing, balancing the track step by step, working our way down from the most important elemtents.

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Compression-Techniques

How the compressor works and is applied in the mixing stage, drum and bass compression, side-chain compression, multiband compression, parallel compression, New-York compression, limiting

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EQing-Techniques

Dealing with resonances, learn to avoid upward spirals of EQ boosting, best practise to avoid frequency masking, why we favor cuts over boosts, why to use shelf filters before peak filters, before notch filters, mid-side EQ, etc.

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Covering Theoretical Background

Phase cancellation, room treatment, law of the first wavefront, how our ears sense the direction and distance of sound, Fletcher-Munson Curve, anti-phase

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Sweetening to taste

Adding sound enhancing elements, like send reverbs, stereo effects, slap delays on our vocals, haas effect, etc.
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You’re learning to:

Avoid common mixing errors and psycho-acoustic traps
Prepare your Ableton Session for a great mixing workflow
Use EQ to make room and properly place elements
Utilize compressors to add or remove dynamics
Use saturation & distortion to add upper harmonics to the mix
Properly split your bass freqencies for sub-separation
Identify the right song-part to start mixing
Mix with Ableton stock plugins
Mix instruments, drums and bass with EQ, compression, etc
Correctly use groups, send effects and audio while mixing
Master the fundamentals and theories of sound perception

What you’re getting:

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A complete start-to-finish mixing process on a state of the art pop-house track

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40+ Studio sessions with Francois / Production Music Live

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5h+ online video sessions with lifetime-access

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Slides / cheat sheets collection you can always quickly turn to

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Bonus: Ableton Project (instrumental) used in this couse (using Ableton Live 9 Standard + NI Massive 1.3.xx or higher)

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Bonus: More sessions (and requests) to be added over time

Course Curriculum

Intro and Basics

Welcome & Downloading Files (0:26)

Intro: Mixing and Stages of the Production Process (2:01)

Preliminary Information (1:40)

Preparing The Mix (1)

Playing the Unmixed Track (3:08)

Mix Preparation (Order, Reference Track, Louder sounds better trap) (4:35)

EQ Cleaning: High Passing (6:24)

First Balance (2)

Finding a First Balance (1) (7:54)

Finding a First Balance (2) (13:41)

Excursion: Speakers / Monitors (1:21)

Mixing The Kick (3)

The Kickdrum (4:57)

Side-Chaining (5:15)

Excursion: Fletcher Munson Curve (and finding a good listening volume) (3:29)

Mixing The Bass Parts (4)

Top Bass Layer (10:37)

Mid Bass Layer (6:37)

Low Bass Layer (5:12)

Grouping Bass Layers (7:34)

Excursion: Why Mono Bass (1:25)

Excursion: Phase Cancellation (12:11)

Creating a Bass-Buss – Bringing it all together (9:15)

New York Compression – Return Channel (3:54)

Mixing The Vocal Parts (5)

Excursion: Stereo Enhancement (Haas Effect) (11:30)Vocals (8:55)

Vocals – DeEsser (9:51)

Mixing the Instruments (6)

Technique: Distortion / Saturation (5:53)

Piano – Adding Upper Harmonics / Return Channel (10:42)

Mixing the Marimba Instrument (8:55)

Mixing the Synth Instrument (9:36)

Mixing Drum Elements (13:50)

“Dynamic EQ” for the Subbass (4:58)

Special: Room Treatment (1:32)

Sweetening To Taste (7)

Sweetening To Taste (Marimba) (6:07)

Sweetening To Taste (Vocals, Hihats) (5:42)

Finalizing (8)

Playing the Mixed Track (3:07)

Optional: Quick Little Master (7:59)

Exporting (Dithering, Sample Rate, File Type) (7:56)

Summing Up

Summing Up / Key Take-Away’s (5:17)

Going into Detail & Additional Resources

Excursion: Distance & Direction of Sound (4:44)

Frequency Masking (6:14)

Subtractive vs Additive EQ (3:58)

How The Compressor Works (1) – Basics (14:25)

How The Compressor Works (2) – Snare Example (10:00)

How The Compressor Works (3) – Loop Example (8:50)

How The Compressor Works (4) – Different Compressor Types (5:13)

Multiband Side-Chaining (16:51)

Bonus Content (Updated)

What is Side-Chaining (10:36)

Bonus: Mixing Hip Hop Vocals 1: Gate + EQ (Guest Session) (4:27)

Bonus: Mixing Hip Hop Vocals 2: EQ + Compression (Guest Session) (7:16)

Bonus: Mixing Hip Hop Vocals 3: Reverb, Delay and Tricks (Guest Session) (14:44)

Frequently Asked Questions:

The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course – you decide when you start and when you finish.

How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like – across any and all devices you own.

We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 48 hours and we will give you a full refund.

In this course, we are using Ableton Live to achieve our mix. We are only using stock-Ableton effects like EQ, Compressor, Delays, Reverb, Distortions, Saturators, etc. You can use any DAW that includes these effects to follow along and transfer the techniques applied to your system.

Not necessarily. The course is designed such that you can sit back, relax and learn the mixing techniques applied in this course. If you – however – want to make use of the bonus Ableton project we are giving away with the course, you’ll need Ableton Live 9 Standard + NI Massive (1.3.xx or higher) to run the project file perfectly.

Absolutely! The offered bundles give you an extra discount of around 30% on the usual shop prices.
Your Instructor

Francois
Francois

I’m Francois, classically trained musician and music producer from Germany with an insatiable passion for great sound design, audio engineering and electronic music production. I’ve released tracks on labels such as Universal Music, Parquet Recordings, Portrait Digital Recordings, Somatic Sense, Jannowitz Records and others. Maybe you’ve seen one of my tutorials on our YouTube channel “Production Music Live”. I also have a personal Youtube Channel called “Francois Beats”. I like exploring new ways of working, acquiring new skills and sharing my knowledge.Check out some of my electronic music productions on

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