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Mixing 101
Blend and Balance
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Blend and Balance Intro (0:57)
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A Balancing Act with Ableton (3:53)
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A Balancing Act with Ableton: Results (6:07)
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Understanding Signal Flow in Ableton Live (4:50)
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Loudness vs Gain vs Volume / Intro to Gain Staging (8:00)
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Level Up: Metering RMS and Peak (4:05)
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Best Practices Moving Forward
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Session and Arrangement View (2:36)
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Lets Get Organized (10:59)
Equalization
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EQ Eight 1: Overview and Filter Modes (8:33)
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EQ Eight 2: The Frequency Spectrum (11:28)
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EQ Eight 3: The Spectrum Analyzer in Action (14:38)
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EQ Eight 4: Treating Resonant Peaks with Audition Mode (18:18)
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EQ Eight 5: EQ for Conflicting Tracks (13:39)
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EQ Eight 6: Scale Carving Trick (7:25)
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EQ Eight 7: Lets EQ a Mix! (17:34)
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The "Solo" Switch (3:25)
The Stereo Field
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Understanding Panning (7:32)
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Review: Panning in Action (15:04)
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Widening 1: Izotope Imager Metering (11:49)
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Widening 2: How Width is Made (6:15)
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Widening 3: Haas Delay and Comb Filtering (27:20)
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Widening 4: EQ Eight L/R Mode (7:43)
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Widening 5: EQ Eight M/S Mode (15:41)
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Widening 6: Modulation Effects for Adding Width (16:36)
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Working with Stereo Image in a Mix (20:34)
Returns: Reverb, Delay, and Beyond
Automation
Dynamics Processing
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Intro to Compression (1:55)
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Compressor 1: Threshold & Volume Compensation (13:02)
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Compressor 2: Ratio, Attack, Release, and more (21:22)
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Compressor 3: Using Compressor as an Auto Volume Control (6:15)
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Compressor 4: Using Compressor as a De-Esser (5:12)
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Compressor 5: Side-Chain Processing (13:36)
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Compressor 6: Compressor as an Expander (7:19)
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Glue Compressor vs Compressor (12:38)
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Ableton Gate (8:36)
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Inverse Gating Your Effect Sends (5:53)
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Multiband Dynamics 1: Multiband Downward Compression (19:11)
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Multiband Dynamics 2: Add Punch with Upward Expansion (10:15)
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Multiband Dynamics 3: Multiband Upward Compression (8:24)
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Multiband Dynamics 4: Downward Expansion Gating (5:41)
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Multiband Dynamics 5: The Infamous OTT Preset (12:21)
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Limiting with Ableton Limiter (15:10)
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Should I Mix into a Limiter? (3:38)
Saturation and Harmonic Distortion
Referencing
Home Studio Setup and Sound Treatment
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Intro: Lost in Translation (1:44)
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Understanding the Problem (6:39)
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Room Layout: Listener and Speaker Placement (7:45)
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Testing Room Layouts with Ableton (7:01)
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Can't I just Mix on Headphones? (5:04)
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Sound Treatment 1: Early Reflections (6:12)
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Sound Treatment 2: Bass Traps (6:36)
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Sound Treatment 3: Diffusers (4:04)
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Seed to Stage Studio Treatment Walkthrough (8:33)
Mastering and Limiting
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Understanding the Role of Mastering (4:13)
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The Almighty Peak Limiter (3:03)
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Loudness 1: Normalization vs Loudness Units (8:50)
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Mastering w/ Ableton's Limiter and Youlean Meter (free option) (8:59)
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Limiting with Ozone Maximizer (15:27)
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Limiting with Fabfilter Pro-L2 (8:22)
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Loudness Targets & The Loudness Wars (8:17)
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Mastering EQ 1: Baxandall EQ with Free CORAL BAX-TER (20:11)
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Mastering EQ 2: Bass and Loudness (13:31)
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Mastering EQ 3: Treble and Loudness (11:57)
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Pro Exporting 1: Sample Rates and Intermodulation Distortion (21:52)
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Pro Exporting 2: Bit Depth and Dithering (20:22)
Bus Processing & Top Down Mixing
Advanced Side Chaining
Audio Split Rack Processing
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