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Mixing Dance Music Course - Logic

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Overview

With Mixing Dance Music - Logic, Point Blank Music Production School gives you the skills and knowledge needed to conquer the final phase of the music production process. 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 Logic users who have completed one of our four week Pro Producer music production courses. If you don’t only produce electronic music you should check out Point Blank Music Production College's 8 week Art of Mixing Course.

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 & Equalisation

Mixing Theory: Soundwaves & Frequencies
How to use Stereo Width
EQ types: High Pass / Low Shelf / Parametric / Hi Shelf
Layering kick & snare sounds for added punch
EQ tips for percussion & drum tracks
How to EQ pad sounds
How to EQ bass sounds

Week 2: Practical Dynamics

What is Compression?
Threshold, Ratio, Attack & Release
Hard & soft Knee
Peak vs RMS
Compression tips for drum tracks
Compressing synth sounds
Bass compression tricks
Sidechaining & Parrallel Compression tricks

Week 3: Working With Effects

Routing insert effects
Routing send/ return effects
Reverb Types: Digital , Convolution, Gated, Reverse
Delay Types: Tempo Delay, Delay Designer, Ducking Delay
Modulation FX: Chorus , Flange and Phaser
Practical examples of creative FX use

Week 4: Final Mixdown & Master

Preparing to mix: A>B comparison
Organising the mixer in Logic
Automation
Mix examples
What is dithering?
Checking your mix (listening environments)
Final Mixdown

Featured Student

Alexander Zwerski aka Funkin_A

I enjoyed every aspect of the course very much. It was a great experience that I surely would like to run through all over again. Everything was just perfect: notes, videos, DVRs, the site itself! You guys doing a good thing and you're doing it good!!! I would like to thank Danny and JC personally and the whole crew as well!!! This course suits perfectly a begginner like me and I hope it would be a good starting point. Armed with this priceless knowledge that you share in this very easy and comprehensive way, I hope that I would get one step closer to my dream which is to become a part of the music industry. Once again THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH and see you next course!

Course Reviews

Sam Rushton

Course rating: 10/10

I've learned so much in 4 weeks it's unbelievable! The course covers a massive amount of content but the content is 'focused' each week so you very rarely get that feeling of being out of your depth or that you can't manage to do the assignments. I found that re-visiting the videos before I sat down to do the assignment really helped. The videos were amazing - could not be better. Our Tutor Ben was brilliant. I loved the DVRs. It's better to not guess at stuff and Ben would point out that you could try things this way etc. Never before would I have thought my hats were too loud!! But now, because of Ben's feedback, I have them lower in the mix. Today I'm almost feeling that eqing is no longer a problem and I can just do it!! - I never thought I would be able to say that! Excellent Course - and the online formats really seems to work. Cheers Sam

David Atkins

Course rating: 10/10

Superb course, as was the Deep & Soulful course I did. Learnt a lot in a short space of time and a big thanks to the tutor and everyone involved in putting together superb notes and video's. Nice one!

Chris Valencia

Course rating: 10/10

Ben was so helpful in his DVRs and I'm really thankful for all of the advice that he gave me. I've learned so much over the last four weeks and I look forward to taking several of your classes, because you guys are amazing! Thanks again for everything...cheers!

Fabrice Paget

Course rating: 10/10

I should have taken this course a long time ago. I have learned a lot and the course allowed me to make tremendous progress. Thank you very much !!

Rory Jones

Course rating: 10/10

Great course to take to see exactly where you are skill wise not to mention the knowledge you receive will exceed your own expectations & drastically advance you skill set. Bravo PB, Bravo!

Paul Bolen

Course rating: 10/10

Awesome

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