Mixing And Mastering Electronic Music In Ableton Live

A comprehensive and detailed look at how you can mix and master your own electronic music.

3.75 (11 reviews)

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What you will learn

Mix drums for maxmum punch and clarity so that they cut through your mix

Mix a track that contains a wide range of bass sounds so that they all sit well with each other in your final mixdown

use compression and multiband compression like a boss

Use mid-side EQ to control the stereo field of any sound at different frequencies in the spectrum

Make use of overdrive, saturation and distortion to bring out extra harmonics in your sounds, adding clarity and sparkle

Learn some winning EQ approaches for every sound in this track - drums, basses, melodic instruments and vocals

Discover my secret weapon for sidechaining on a multiband level to ensure the most coherent bassline possible

Master your own track to give it that well polished finish that will enable your music to stand up against other professional tracks in a DJ mix online or in the club

See how to use a reference track to get the best possible mix comparison

Why take this course?

We will be mixing and mastering a track from start to finish in this course.

You will get an in-depth, real world view of exactly how to mix and master your own music.

You will learn the art and science behind various types of compression (regular compression, sidechain compression, multiband compression) and some recommended settings that can be used depending on the type of sound you are treating with compression.

You will also learn about various types of EQ treatment, such as regular parametric EQ and Mid-Side EQ. You will learn about how to EQ a wide range of sounds including different drums and percussion (kicks, snares, etc.), different bass sounds, melodic instruments and FX.

You will learn how to use saturation and distortion to add extra harmonics to certain sounds in your mix to make them sound fuller or stand out more above the other instruments.

You will learn how to mix a complex track that consists of more than 10 different bass sounds and more than 10 different drums tracks.

You will see how we can group tracks together and process an entire group of tracks at once.

You will learn how to work with reference tracks to compare your own work with.

You will also learn how to build your own mastering chain and how to master your track so that it will stand up against other professionally produced tracks on the dancefloor.

The style of music produced in this course could be called dubstep, although it features many influences from ambient electronica and drum and bass, especially neuro or neurofunk style drum and bass.

Despite the track being a specific type of electronic music, you will be able to apply all of the mixing and mastering techniques you learn in this course to other genres of electronic music, such as electro house, techno, glitch hop, trip hop, mid tempo music and many other styles.

The Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) used in this course is Ableton Live, but if you use a different DAW, and you're comfortable with producing music in it, you can apply all of the techniques in your DAW of choice.

Along with full access to all of the video tutorials, you will be able to download the Ableton Live project file used in this course to take a close look at each of the tracks and see exactly how the song was mixed.

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Reviews

Mitchell

May 17, 2020

Was a good learning experience. I wish the lecturer elaborated more on reason to why he was using certain mixing effects (compression/ multi-band dynamics) to gain a better understanding.

Jared

April 20, 2018

Helped me out a lot with my mix down, and gained a better understanding on a few tricks I wasn't aware of throughout the course.

Jaime

October 27, 2016

Is too specific, i wanted something more general. He explain just how he is mixing his track and some tips to mastering it. He is focus just in his track and for example if you are doing a diferent style nothing help to you. I was so excited to start this course but now im so dissapointed. The next time just write in the tittle "How to mixing and mastering a dubstep track AMATEUR LEVEL". At least I only spend 19$ on it. Im not saying that the "teacher" have no idea or make bad music, i just saying maybe the tittle of the course doesnt represent what it is really.

Michael

November 29, 2015

The example Ableton project has already had all of the mastering changes from the lectures applied, so it's useless as an interactive learning tool, and some of the tracks don't work since they still depend on VSTs you may not have rather than having their contents bounced to audio. The lectures have long periods of no talking with hard-to-see knob tweaking, making them almost impossible to pay attention to. It's rare that we get a picture of how the individual changes actually relate to general mastering principles, too. There are some good tricks in here, but you'll have to summon all your mental fortitude to watch these videos with enough attention to catch them.

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