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Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1

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Overview

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Interested in producing the next chart-topping pop song? Multi-platinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf demonstrates his hit-making song mixing techniques.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching
1. The Basics of Pop Music Mixing
  • Beginning a mix
  • Customizing your own mix template
  • Volume, panning, EQ and dynamics basics
  • Ambience, modulation, and harmonics plugins
  • Achieving a good raw balance
2. Signal Processing Techniques for Pop Music
  • Understanding signal processing order
  • Kick drum processing techniques
  • Snare drum processing
  • Tom toms and cymbals processing
  • Drum room mics processing
  • Lead vocal processing techniques
  • Background vocal processing techniques
  • Gain processing using EQ and dynamics
  • Treating the bass guitar
  • Treating synth bass sounds
  • Making electric guitars sing with compression, EQ, and reverb
  • Placing acoustic grand piano in the mix
  • Carefully crafting the keyboards
  • Choosing the right EQ for the acoustic guitar
  • Taming and then featuring percussion
  • Mixing real and sampled strings
  • Treating real live brass
  • Parallel compression techniques
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Brian Malouf

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