Dance Music Production - Dimensional Mixing (Music Tutorial)

Dance Music Production - Dimensional Mixing

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Disc One: Theory
Introduction
An introduction to the tutorial

Session 01: The Mixing Desk: 25 minutes.
We begin with an introduction to the mixing desk, busses, cue mixes and VCA's.

Session 02: Panning & Pan Law: 15 minutes
For the second session, we examine how a DAW changes its panning function depending on the audio content of the channel.

Session 03: Reference Levels: 20 Minutes.
Following on the previous session, we examine reference levels and their importance when mixing.

Session 04: Gain Structure: 25 minutes
In this session we discuss gain structure and its importance when mixing in a DAW.

Session 05: Ear Training 1: 25 minutes!
We investigate the importance of trained ears and begin with basic training exercises.

Session 06: Ear Training 2: 30 Minutes
We continue with ear training, this time examining what we should be listening for in a mix.

Session 07: Listening Environment: 20 Minutes
You can't mix what you can't hear. For this session we examine how to modify your room for a better monitoring environment and discuss the alternatives.

Session 08: Mental preperation: 15 Minutes
We discuss the importance of preparation, including how to mentally approach a mix.

Session 09: Stemming: 30 Minutes
We prepapre to mix by starting to stem and consolidate the audio together

Session 08: Organising: 20 Minutes
For the final part of this disc, we discuss some of the ways in which to organise a mix.

Disc Two: Practical

Session 01: The Kick: 20 minutes.
For this first session we approach an example mix and begin to mix and modify the tonality of the kick drum.

Session 02: Mixing Percussion: 60 minutes
With the kick prepared, we begin to mix and balance all of the percussion, showing some of the techniques you can use to attain a good mix balance

Session 03: Mixing Parallel: 20 Minutes.
Parallel mixing is fundamental to all dance music mixes, but here we introduce an alternative...

Session 04: Mixing Bass: 20 minutes
In this session we discuss some low end theory and show how to approach mixing a bass.

Session 05: Mixing Leads: 30 minutes
Following on from the previous session, we continue to mix this time introducing the leads, while also showing how to fit huge leads into a mix.

Session 06: Mixing Vocals: 45 Minutes
Here, using a couple of examples, we discuss how you can appraoch. balance and mix vocals into music.

Session 07: Playing a Mix: 20 Minutes
In this session, we discuss the importance of playing the mix.

Session 08: Analogue Vs Digital: 15 Minutes
For the final session we attempt to answer the age old question by summing through a Neve and an SSL to compare with a DAW mix...The results might surprise you.