PureMix – Mixing Dubstep in Pro Tools (TUTORIAL)

By | November 12, 2025

 

Release Year: 2014
Producer: pureMix
Producer’s Website: www.puremix.net/video/mixing-dubstep-in-pro-tools.html
Author: Fab Dupont
Duration: 01:08:11
Type of Material: Video Tutorial
Language: English


Description: In this 68-minute video, Fab Dupont mixes Grand Baton’s dubstep song “Caribbean.” Fab highlights the techniques needed to process and manipulate multi-layered electronic music in a ProTools session. From stem mixing, advanced routing techniques with serious hardware processing in dual-buses, to special Melodyne tricks for creating otherworldly tones. Throughout the video, Fab uses advanced processing and special effects for acoustic and electronic drums, synthesized guitars, heavy keyboards, crushed vocals, reverb, and delay.
In this 68-minute video, Fab Dupont reverse engineers his own mix of the dubstep-style song “Caribbean” by Grand Baton.
Fab emphasizes the techniques required to handle and manage a heavily layered electronic music session in ProTools. From stem-mixing, to advanced routing techniques, to serious 2-bus hardware processing, and special Melodyne tricks to create otherworldly tones, he leaves no stones unturned. Throughout the video, Fab studies advanced processing and special effects for acoustic and electronic drums, synth-sounding guitars, heavy keyboards and crushed vocals, reverbs and delays using all the following plug-ins :

UAD: Precision Enhancer, Precision Maximizer, 1176LN, 1176 RevA, Pultec Pro, DBX 160, EMT 140, Lexicon 224, Roland CE1, Little Labs
Sonnox: Oxford EQ, Oxford Limiter, Oxford Dynamics, Oxford Reverb
Soundtoys: Devil-Loc Deluxe, Pan Man, EchoBoy
Softube: TLA-100A, Tsar 1, Tonelux Tilt
Plug and Mix: Degradiator, Dimension 3D
Massey: L2007 Mastering Limiter
Slate Digital: Trigger
Metric Halo: Thump
Celemony: Melodyne

Sample files: present
Video format: FLV
Video: AVC, 1024×576, 16:9, 23.976 fps
Audio: AAC, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels
Total bitrate: ~659 kbps



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