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Mixing Dance Music Course - Ableton Live

Overview

Mixing Dance Music with Ableton Live is the Point Blank Music Production School course that gives you the skills and knowledge needed to conquer the final phase of the music production process using the popular and intuitive software Ableton. You will learn how to achieve a punchy professional sound that will stand up to scrutiny on big club soundsystems and impress scrupulous record label heads/DJs when you send them your tracks. On top of the course materials, you can upload your music each week for DVR™ - expert analysis and video feedback on your work from professional producers that know what they are talking about. The techniques can be applied to a range of electronic music genres and the course is particularly suitable for Ableton users who have completed one of our 4 week Pro Producer music production courses.

Includes a minimum of 240 mins video / 4 x DVR™ (1-2-1 video feedback)/ 4 hours live masterclasses /1 year access / over 80 pages of course notes / 24/7 access to forum / exclusive audio resources to download. Optional: sign your track to Point Blank Music distributed by iTunes, beatport, Juno Download and Amazon.

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Course Contents

Week 1: Basics & Equalization

EQ: High Pass/Low Shelf/Parametric/Hi Shelf
Layering kicks
How to EQ sounds lifted from other tracks
EQ pad/stab sounds; synth bass
EQ a vocal
EQ layered Loops
Adding/Reducing stereo width

Week 2: Practical Dynamics

What is compression?
Threshold, Ratio, Attack & Release
Hard & soft knee, Peak, RMS and Opto
Compression tips for drum tracks; synth sounds
Compressing percussion; bass; vocals
Compressing a piano riff; synth arpeggio
Side-chaining & parallel compression

Week 3: Working With Effects

Routing insert effects
Routing send/ return effects
Reverb including gated and reversed
Working with delays
Modulation FX: Chorus
Flanger and Phaser
Practical examples of creative FX use

Week 4: Final Mixdown & Master

Preparing to mix: A>B comparison
Organising the mixer
Case study – a complete track mixdown
What is dithering?
Checking your mix
Final mixdown

Course Reviews

Robert Oddo

Course rating: 10/10

This course was awesome! It had very informative material, all of the lessons and videos were great practice. Steve was very knowledgeable and really helped me through the mixing process. I would recommend this course to anybody serious in their productions and their mixdowns!

Timothy Burke

Course rating: 9/10

the course was dope. steve is dope. i'm high on dope. its been a slice, im out!

Giacomo Di Mase

Course rating: 10/10

Steve was a great tutor and the best thing is that he has great knowledge in mixing and mastering, and that helped a lot in understanding key points in the course because in the way that he explained the concepts. Hopefully I can take another class with steve as a tutor, Cheers, G.

David Zitney

Course rating: 10/10

Steve was a great instructor and the lessons covered everything I expected to learn in depth. Great course!

Tao Chen

Course rating: 10/10

great course, very practical and useful knowledge, and great tutor.

Mike Dwyer

Course rating: 9/10

This course was a really great stepping stone for me...I needed to get over a few humps to really polish up my productions. While I don't think I'm a master just yet, I have a lot more knowledge and know how to really start honing in and perfecting my sound. Steve was an excellent instructor, way down to earth. I would have liked to have more chats, but what we did have was cool and informative. Thank you for all the help I will hopefully return when I can rack up some extra cash :)

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