Go step-by-step with me and see what it really takes to get a dense song full of blast beats, double bass, bass guitar, multiple different types of guitar parts, tons of vocal tracks, nearly 20 orchestral tracks, and sound effects working together to create a huge, atmospheric metal mix.
INSIDE, LEARN HOW TO:
- Create a session that is properly set up, color coded, and has a logical naming structure that you can adopt as your own;
- Line up and organize your tracks in folders, groups, and how to use FX tracks correctly;
- Properly prepare drum tracks for editing by ensuring good phase relationships and consolidating down extra tracks you don’t need;
- Edit drums with the slip-editing technique and how to fix artifacts;
- Strip-silence and consolidate drums to make them easier to work with;
- Effectively deal with cymbal and hi-hat bleed in the close microphones so you can crank the processing moves on the drums;
- Craft a mean, grindy bass sound with thick low-end that makes the mix sound huge—this is the real secret to big metal mixes;
- Create three different complementary guitar tones so that the rhythm, lead, and solo guitars all stand out and sit perfectly in the mix;
- Take 25 choral vocal tracks, tune, process, and pan them, and condense them into 4 huge sounding stereo tracks;
- Create aggressive, big-sounding metal vocals that are in your face;
- Use tried-and-true processing techniques to create a balanced mix where all instruments stand out on their own and translates to the outside world;
- Use EQ to carve out space for the kick drum and bass guitar so that your mix has a solid, thick low-end that is defined and punchy;
- Use and understand how compressors and limiters work when shaping drums and the overall mix;
- Add atmosphere with different reverbs to ensure the song has character;
- Automate so that you can control the dynamics of the song and ensure the best listening experience by drawing attention to the best aspects of the song at specific times;
- Add sound effects that add more dynamics and dramatic qualities to the song to help accentuate changes;
- Glue a mix together with submix and master chain processing, making the mix sound more cohesive;
- Prepare your mix to send off for stem mastering.
This is more than just a mixing course showing fader and processing moves—we’ve all seen that before and you deserve more. This is a fully-fledged production course that goes through every single minut detail and all the decisions you have to make before you even create a mixing session.
That’s right: get a look at the heavy lifting that must be done with drum and vocal editing, as well as double checking all of the raw tracks to ensure they’re even ready for mixing. This is the side of mixing and production that hardly ever gets shown.
The techniques and attetion-to-detail required for music like this is extreme in itself, and you’ll learn exactly what it means to check every single kick drum and snare hit. Strap in and see how these details matter and how they can make a huge impact on the outcome of your mix.
This song will test and stress not only your mixing skills, but your discipline to hold yourself to a high standard to do what needs to be done.
It’s going to be an uphill climb, but when you get to the top, you’ll have a feeling of satisfaction you haven’t had before.
If you’re ready to test yourself, then let’s get started.
STUDENTS GET:
- Over 10 hours of detailed instruction from beginning to end, going from creating the drum editing session to learning how to prepare tracks for mastering—no stone unturned, no detail glossed over;
- Every single Cubase pre-production session, the actual mix session, the bounced files from the mix session, the raw tracks, the original orchestral MIDI file and the kick MIDI which has the tempo and markers embedded, the guitar tone presets, all the raw, original, unedited drums and choral tracks—everything. You even get my Cubase key commands and program preferences that you can load into your own copy of Cubase;
- Access to a curated, private Discord community reserved only for those inside the course, ensuring a positive atmosphere where there are no stupid questions and everybody can help;
- A PDF of the full list of plugins used and where to find them if students want them;
- A PDF of the musicians that helped write and record the song and their contact information, if you’d like to reach out to them;
- A mixing cheatsheet that details the steps I always take that you can reference when you are working on the course and future mixes;
- All future updates and content additions to the course will be FREE FOR LIFE.
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