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Ableton Live - Mixing and Performance module is vital if you want to get your music over to an audience. You will learn how to achieve a punchy professional sound that will stand up to scrutiny on big club soundsystems and in live arenas and impress scrupulous record label heads/DJs when you send them your tracks. The last few years has seen a massive music industry career resurgence in the importance of live performance as a revenue stream for music producers, artists and DJs. This course includes integrated use with Serato and The Bridge. And don't forget

2 GAMi tech can release your tracks via Beatport, Amazon, Juno Download and iTunes through our own record label.

 

           

     

 

      

 

Content

Part 1: MIXING ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Basic Concepts

• Introduction to the listening environment

• Mixing concepts

• Acoustic theory

• Preparing the mix

• Critical listening
   

Equalisation

• High Pass/Low Shelf/Parametric/Hi Shelf

• Layering kicks

• How to EQ sounds lifted from other tracks

• Pad/stab sounds; synth bass; EQ vocals

• EQ Layered Loops

 

Practical Dynamics

• What is compression?

• Threshold, Ratio, Attack & Release

• Hard & soft knee, Peak, RMS and Opto

• Compression tips

• Side-chaining & parallel compressionNoise Gate & Reverb
   

Space and Depth

• Routing insert effects

• Routing send/ return effects

• Reverb including gated and reversed

• Adding/Reducing stereo width
   

Creative Mixing

• Working with delays

• Modulation FX: Chorus

• Flanger and Phaser

• Practical examples of creative FX use
   

Vocal Treatment and the Mixing Process

• Vocal mixing

• Step-by-step mixing

• Adding life to your mixes