Mixing 101: Learn The Essential Mixing Skills

In this course, you’ll learn the fundamental concepts and skills needed to mix audio at a professional level. Whether you produce your own music or work as an engineer, mixing is crucial for taking your tracks from raw recordings to radio-ready productions.

Over concise, information-packed lessons, you’ll discover:

• The mixing mindset: Understand the overarching goals and thought process behind mixing
• Organizing tracks: Clean up sessions and group similar elements to streamline the process
• Level balancing: Set proper gain staging and get the optimum volume balance between tracks
• EQ techniques: Learn surgical cutting and musical boosting to enhance tones
• Compression: Control dynamics and add punch with compressors
• Sidechaining: Understand this key technique for cleaner mixes
• Panning & stereo imaging: Widen or focus the stereo field to create space
• Sends & effects: Route signals to create vibrant reverbs, delays, and other effects
• Mix bus processing: Glue the track together with compression, EQ, and saturation
• Mastering basics: Prep your mix for release

Learn the key concepts and techniques every producer needs to mix music that sounds professional. This back-to-basics mixing tutorial covers essential skills like level balancing, EQ, compression, panning, fx, and mix bus processing. Gain the mixing knowledge needed to make your songs shiny and full, no matter what DAW or genre you use.

Useful for all studios from bedroom setups to project studios. Mixing well is crucial to achieve clarity, width, and loudness. Let’s unlock the secrets to clean, dynamic, industry-quality mixes!