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Mixing and Mastering with Ableton Live
Welcome
Welcome / How to Use this Course (1:59)
Take the Live Lessons (2:02)
Join the Community! (2:15)
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Mixing 101
Critical Listening (2:14)
Your Audio System (3:18)
Our Time: Modern Mixing (2:46)
Prescriptions and Mixing Myths (5:07)
Blend and Balance
Blend and Balance Intro (0:57)
A Balancing Act with Ableton (3:53)
A Balancing Act with Ableton: Results (6:07)
Understanding Signal Flow in Ableton Live (4:50)
Loudness vs Gain vs Volume / Intro to Gain Staging (8:00)
Level Up: Metering RMS and Peak (4:05)
Best Practices Moving Forward
Session and Arrangement View (2:36)
Lets Get Organized (10:59)
Equalization
EQ Eight 1: Overview and Filter Modes (8:33)
EQ Eight 2: The Frequency Spectrum (11:28)
EQ Eight 3: The Spectrum Analyzer in Action (14:38)
EQ Eight 4: Treating Resonant Peaks with Audition Mode (18:18)
EQ Eight 5: EQ for Conflicting Tracks (13:39)
EQ Eight 6: Scale Carving Trick (7:25)
EQ Eight 7: Lets EQ a Mix! (17:34)
The "Solo" Switch (3:25)
The Stereo Field
Understanding Panning (7:32)
Review: Panning in Action (15:04)
Widening 1: Izotope Imager Metering (11:49)
Widening 2: How Width is Made (6:15)
Widening 3: Haas Delay and Comb Filtering (27:20)
Widening 4: EQ Eight L/R Mode (7:43)
Widening 5: EQ Eight M/S Mode (15:41)
Widening 6: Modulation Effects for Adding Width (16:36)
Working with Stereo Image in a Mix (20:34)
Returns: Reverb, Delay, and Beyond
Space Commander: Designing Space (2:13)
The Return Tracks (12:21)
Designing Space with Reverb (Deep Dive) (18:10)
Using Reverb for Widening (14:57)
Ableton Delay Deep Dive (17:17)
Ableton Echo Deep Dive (21:02)
Adding Subtle Reverb for Realism (12:53)
Hybrid Reverb Deep Dive (21:21)
Automation
Automation: A Living and Breathing Mix
Views and Workflows (6:48)
Automation Techniques (17:47)
Automation in Action (13:02)
Dynamics Processing
Intro to Compression (1:55)
Compressor 1: Threshold & Volume Compensation (13:02)
Compressor 2: Ratio, Attack, Release, and more (21:22)
Compressor 3: Using Compressor as an Auto Volume Control (6:15)
Compressor 4: Using Compressor as a De-Esser (5:12)
Compressor 5: Side-Chain Processing (13:36)
Compressor 6: Compressor as an Expander (7:19)
Glue Compressor vs Compressor (12:38)
Ableton Gate (8:36)
Inverse Gating Your Effect Sends (5:53)
Multiband Dynamics 1: Multiband Downward Compression (19:11)
Multiband Dynamics 2: Add Punch with Upward Expansion (10:15)
Multiband Dynamics 3: Multiband Upward Compression (8:24)
Multiband Dynamics 4: Downward Expansion Gating (5:41)
Multiband Dynamics 5: The Infamous OTT Preset (12:21)
Limiting with Ableton Limiter (15:10)
Should I Mix into a Limiter? (3:38)
Saturation and Harmonic Distortion
Why would I Want Distortion in My Mix? (1:55)
Ableton Saturator Overview (11:27)
Using Saturator in a Mix (9:31)
Peak Clipping: Saturator's Dirty Little Secret (15:15)
Ableton Overdrive to the Rescue! (17:05)
Saturation for Width (8:50)
Referencing
What is Referencing and Why You Should. (1:52)
Referencing Workflow & Voxengo SPAN (13:03)
Home Studio Setup and Sound Treatment
Intro: Lost in Translation (1:44)
Understanding the Problem (6:39)
Room Layout: Listener and Speaker Placement (7:45)
Testing Room Layouts with Ableton (7:01)
Can't I just Mix on Headphones? (5:04)
Sound Treatment 1: Early Reflections (6:12)
Sound Treatment 2: Bass Traps (6:36)
Sound Treatment 3: Diffusers (4:04)
Seed to Stage Studio Treatment Walkthrough (8:33)
Mastering and Limiting
Understanding the Role of Mastering (4:13)
The Almighty Peak Limiter (3:03)
Loudness 1: Normalization vs Loudness Units (8:50)
Mastering w/ Ableton's Limiter and Youlean Meter (free option) (8:59)
Limiting with Ozone Maximizer (15:27)
Limiting with Fabfilter Pro-L2 (8:22)
Loudness Targets & The Loudness Wars (8:17)
Mastering EQ 1: Baxandall EQ with Free CORAL BAX-TER (20:11)
Mastering EQ 2: Bass and Loudness (13:31)
Mastering EQ 3: Treble and Loudness (11:57)
Pro Exporting 1: Sample Rates and Intermodulation Distortion (21:52)
Pro Exporting 2: Bit Depth and Dithering (20:22)
Bus Processing & Top Down Mixing
Getting Organized with Grouping (13:12)
Top Down Mixing: Mix Bus EQ (22:06)
Top Down Mixing 2: Mix Bus Stereo Width (13:27)
Bus Processing 1: Bus Compression (25:55)
Bus Processing 2: Bus Saturation (19:34)
Bus Processing 3: Drum Buss (13:17)
Advanced Side Chaining
Envelopes vs Ableton Compressor (10:57)
Ableton Envelope as a Side Chain Compressor (19:05)
Xfer LFO Tool as a Side Chain Compressor (15:20)
Audio Split Rack Processing
The Anatomy of an Audio Signal (2:01)
Mid / Side Processing Rack (16:03)
Building Multiband Split Racks (NERDY) (16:57)
Multiband Split Racks in Use! (23:31)
Dry / Wet Rack (9:03)
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