Year of manufacture: 06/2015
Manufacturer: Lynda.com
Manufacturer’s website: lynda.com/course-tutorials/Advanced-EDM-Mixing-Principles/369624-2.html
Author: Colin Fisher
Duration: 1:50
Type of distributed material: Video clips
Language: English
Description: While the genre does not affect many mixing techniques, EDM (electronic dance music) has unique challenges. Artists want their songs to sound loud, wide, and heavy, without suppressing their unique texture or competing with the underlying rhythm. In this course, Colin Fisher teaches advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment. He’ll touch on loudness and dynamics, headroom and gain, and processing with compression, limiting, and clipping, as well as show how to manipulate stereo and frequency placement like the pros do. The end result is a fat, wide, and full sound that will help your tracks break through.
Mixing electronic dance music.
Content :
Introduction
Welcome
What should you know before watching this course
Using the exercise files
1. Mixdown Introduction
Mixdowns explained
What is loudness?
Using dynamics to create power
Balancing a mix
The importance of good audio references
Avoiding ear fatigue
Patience is yours
2. Headroom and Gain
What is headroom?
How to improve consistency with gain
Ways to manage loudness
3. Compression, Limiting, and Clipping
Compression, limiting, and clipping: The famed three explained
Ways to use compression
Ways to use limiting
Ways to use clipping
4. Subgroups
What are subgroups?
Organizing a mixdown
Using a kick subgroup
Using a drum subgroup
Using a bass subgroup
Using an instruments subgroup
Using an FX subgroup
Other ways of using subgroups
5. Stereo and Frequency Placement
Stereo and frequency placement explained simply
The philosophy of broadness
Use of fatness and understanding what it means
The dos and don’ts of applying width and fatness
Understanding the differences between width and panning
Tricks for achieving stereo width
Conclusion
Next steps and additional resources
Example files: present
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 15fps, 208kbps
Audio: AAC, 48kHz, 128kbps, stereo
