Mixing Commercial Pop Music
with Goetz Botzenhardt
Intermediate
23 lessons (2h 34m)
Mobile, Tablet + Desktop
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Course Trailer
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Sample Lesson
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- Getting Started
- Interview with Goetz Botzenhardt
- Goetz's studio setup
- Preparation before getting down to mixing
- Creating and Using a mix template to quickly get started
- Understanding Buses and project settings
- ASSIGNMENT #1: CREATE A MIX SESSION
- Building your Mix
- Loading samples into your mixing project
- Inspecting the material - The Drums
- Tightening up the drums, using sound replacer
- Inspecting and preparing vocals
- Assembling the mix
- Adding more elements to the mix
- ASSIGNMENT #2: REPLACE KICK DRUM AND SNARE
- Final Steps
- The big recap!
- Final mixing steps & project delivery
- Printing your mix
- Getting Creative
- Main mixing weapons - EQ, Compression and Reverb
- The mix bus
- Delay compensation and HEAT
- Mixing vocals
- Getting creative
- Rides & Dynamics
- CHALLENGE #2: GET CREATIVE AND MIX "IF YOU DARE"!
Lesson plan (2h 34m)
Goetz Botzenhardt is an award-winning German producer and mixing engineer whose credits include The Pet Shop Boys, Faithless, the Sugababes, Ella Eyre and Utada Hikaru. He also mixes audio for film & TV including Steve Jobs, and Under The Skin.
In this course Goetz offers "A plugin for your BRAIN." Over two and a half hours he explains the secrets and methods used produce chart-topping tracks, concentrating on how to professionally mix and EQ a track.
Goetz will walk you through his entire workflow, covering how he uses racks, effects, busses, EQ, Compression, and Reverb. You get access to Goetz's Pro Tools stems for the track 'Dare' by Tileyard Artist Tiggy. Though the course is applicable whether you're using Pro-Tools or any other DAW.
Whether you're a beginner or an advanced mix engineer this course is for you. Nothing beats sitting next to a seasoned pro, watching him work his magic to lift a song and make a slamming pop track.
Please note that this course no longer includes personal feedback, which has been reflected in the pricing.
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