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Become a Mix Engineer

via LinkedIn Learning Path

Overview

Make your mark on the music business as a mix engineer. Discover how to produce professionally mixed audio on any digital audio workstation, and combine traditional and cutting-edge recording techniques.
  • Learn essential audio and recording principles.
  • Practice utilizing EQ and compression effectively.
  • Apply reverb, delay, and creative effects to your tracks.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Audio and Music Production Careers: First Steps
-Learn about the jobs, equipment, DAWs, and training you need to get started down an audio learning path.

Course 2: Audio Mixing Bootcamp
-Reveals industry tips, tricks, and techniques for producing professionally mixed audio.

Course 3: Audio Foundations: Compression and Dynamic Processing
-Shows how to improve the sound of a mix using compressors, limiters, gates, de-essers, and other dynamic processors.

Course 4: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters
-Shows how to properly apply equalization (EQ) to improve the sound of a mix.

Course 5: Audio Foundations: Reverb
-Explains one of the most essential ingredients in audio mixing, reverb—the time it takes for sound to bounce, echo, and decay during a live performance or recording.

Course 6: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation
-The fundamentals of delay and modulation effects and how to apply these effects, technically and creatively, to improve the sound of a mix.

Course 7: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Mixing
-Join Larry Crane, producer behind albums by The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Jenny Lewis, and Sleater-Kinney, shows you how to get more life and energy out of your existing tracks.

Course 8: Drum Mixing: Techniques
-GRAMMY-winning producer Ryan Hewitt explains his techniques for mixing radio-ready drum sounds with any DAW or console.

Course 9: Mixing a Modern Jazz Track
-Learn the mixing techniques Grammy-winning producer Dave Darlington uses to transform raw audio tracks into great jazz mixes.

Course 10: Mixing an EDM Track
-Learn how to mix a solid EDM track from raw material with Dave Darlington's Grammy-winning techniques.

Course 11: Advanced EDM Mixing
-Learn advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment, to make your tracks sound fat, wide, and full.

Course 12: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
-Interested in producing the next chart-topping pop song? Multi-platinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf demonstrates his hit-making song mixing techniques.

Courses

Taught by

Garrick Chow, Bobby Owsinski, Brian Lee White, Alex Case, Larry Crane, Ryan Hewitt, Dave Darlington, Colin E. Fisher and Brian Malouf

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