Here’s a great excerpt from Charles Dye’s excellent DVD mixing course, Mix It Like A Record.
This was filmed at The Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington.
Mix It Like A Record
Learn How To Get That Elusive Pro Sound In Your Mixes
About Me
My name is Allen "Big Al" Wagner. I’m a big Charles Dye fan and enthusiast. His interactive mixing course, Mix It Like A Record, changed the course and quality of my mixing for the better, forever. I’m eternally grateful and I’m happy to share this with everyone that I can.-
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Course Outline
Effects
- Setup your effects at the beginning of the mix.
- Use hall, chamber, plate, room + non-linear reverbs, and what they sound best on.
- Use chorus, flange, phasers and hamonizers to add width, size and color to your tracks.
- Use delays to create depth, create a mood + enhance the rhythm of a part.
Tracks
- Get big sounding, record-quality mixes.
- Create a cohesive sounding mix.
- Bring out the most important element of each track so it will work well with the other instruments.
- Create signature sounds that give the artist an aural identity.
- Get huge and powerful drum sounds.
- Get a warm fat bass sound that can be heard in small speakers.
- Get a big guitar sound without overpowering the drums or vocals.
- Create keyboard sounds that add depth, color and size to the mix.
- Create big background vocals without getting in the way of the lead.
- Get a lead vocal sound that grabs the listeners attention and connects them with the emotion of the singer's performance.
- Use distortion to your advantage.
- Make the digital mix buss sound analog.
- Compress the stereo mix - at the beginning or end of the mix.
- Use stereo wideners to make your mix bigger than the speakers.
Automation
- Make magic happen with automation.
- Setup the basic structure of your mix by balancing the tracks in each section of the song.
- Inject dynamics and excitement at the transitions and with effects splashing.
- Create an ever-evolving mix keeping the listener's attention from first bar to last.
- Breathe emotion into the music with automation.
- Ride the lead vocal to truly bring out the singers star quality.
Mixing Theory
- What mixing is and its importance in the process of making a record.
- What defines that "record" sound.
- That even though it may feel like your mixes aren't getting better - they are.
- The importance of distortion in the history of recording, and how it influences today's records.
- About using multiple monitors while mixing and what to listen for on each type.
- How to create a sound for a mix that brings out the best in the song and stays true to the artists vision.
- Different techniques to keep your mixes fresh and interesting.
- How to create depth, space and separation with reverb, delays and modulation/pitch effects.
- What defines "star quality".
- The elements that make up a great mix.
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