About The Course

What You'll Learn

Our 6-week intensive short course Mixing For Dance Music will introduce you to new and highly coveted skills which will help take your music and/or mixdowns to a new professional level.

During the course, you will learn to use compression and EQ – the building blocks of audio engineering – to create loud, balanced and dynamic mixes. You will learn how to group and process stems and to properly mix into a master compressor. We will also be covering stem mastering and the basic premise of mastering, setting you on the correct path to practice and perfect your skills, whether looking to improve your own music or becoming a mixing and mastering engineer in your own right. Whether you’re delivering for Soundcloud or online streaming services like Spotify, you’ll have access to the correct metering targets and learn to print deliverables for a range of media.

How We Teach

With support and guidance, we’ll empower you to rethink how you act and react to certain situations or problems. This approach, when aligned with an engineering context, results in speeding up your learning and gives you a more profound awareness of your own skills. Come to the course with an open and curious mind and it will give you a distinct advantage for getting the most out of it. This mindset will also be beneficial to your creativity in general.

What We Cover in the course

• Development of your mixing and mastering skills
• Understanding the parameters of a Compressor and an EQ
• How to correctly identify Attack and Release times and ratios/thresholds of Compressors
• How to make space for elements in a mix by removing competing frequencies
• Balancing tracks within a song by level, purpose, frequency content and dynamic
• Managing sessions through bussing and master-chain processing
• Mixing tracks into stems
• How to use advanced mixing techniques like multi-band techniques, mid / side, and parallel processing
• How to tame already affected/over-processed stems
• The different elements of a mastering chain
• Use of Multi-band imaging, compression on a wide signal source
• How to rebalance or tilt a mix both frequency wise and spatially
• The importance of clear file-name conventions and store prints to send to clients
• How to get your mix up to industry standard, delivering for online media, broadcast formatted files
• How to use metering standards appropriately
• Training your ears to listen for typical errors in a mix
• Improve your critical thinking – understanding why you might use a tool rather than just knowing how to use it