Mixing Music - Learn how to mix a Pop Rock Song like a Pro! (Udemy.com)
Mixing Music: Improve your mixes & learn the BEST techniques in the industry used on multiple platinum selling records!
Created by: Signature Sound
Last updated October 2014
What you will learn
- Over 25 years of experience and expertise from a professional recording studio that has serviced bands such as U2, Blink 182, Switchfoot, Icona Pop and many many more.
How it compares
Against the other 241 rated Udemy courses in Music Production on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 42% of them
- Reviews398#86 of 242 by number of reviews
- Length4.3 hourslonger than 55% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2014earlier than 99% of them
Course Description
We've been recording and mixing music professionally for over 2 decades, learn from the pro's. 30 day money back guarantee, no questions asked. It's our personal promise that this course will improve your mixes.
About this course: In this class we'll teach you the best mixing techniques used to get professional sounding pop rock mixes. You'll have access to the raw tracks of the song used in the class, so you can start putting everything you learn into practice right away.
We also highly encourage student/teacher interaction, so If at any point you have questions or would like to start a discussion, don't hesitate to ask the instructor.
This class is recommended for intermediate to advanced engineers and/or producers using any type of DAW.
Whats covered in this class? Drums, Percussion, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, and Vocals. Effects used such as EQ, Compression, Reverb, Delay and Automation will be analyzed in detail. Throughout the mix Ian will also be introducing a number of production techniques to help add punch, color and excitement to your mixes, including Reinforcing your Drum Tracks with Samples, Splitting the Bass, adding Guitar Amp Plug-Ins to Enhance your Guitar Tone, Side-Chain Processing, Creative Bussing, Group Processing, the addition of Vocal Harmonies, Background Vocals and more. Section by section youll see and hear this song come to life - matching some of the best pop rock sounds out there.
Who's this class for? Were catering this class to the Home Studio Engineer and Laptop Producer. This class is designed for the intermediate audio engineer and above, and showcases tried and true mixing techniques heard on countless records combined with a unique perspective from a seasoned engineer. For beginners this class still offers the opportunity to see how a professional mix comes to life from beginning to end and will give you a rare look under the hood of a world class mix.
Engineer Ian Sutton background: Engineer/Producer Ian Sutton has worked with hundreds of artists and bands, including +44 (Mark Hoppus & Travis Barker) Fallout Boy, Rob Halford, and Frankie J, just to name a few. Ian will thoroughly walk you through one of his most recent pop rock mixes, revealing all sorts of creative mixing and production techniques hes acquired throughout years of study and practice.
Ian Sutton is a graduate of The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences. He is Certified Pro in Apple's Logic and Avid's Pro Tools. Ian has also worked with the likes of +44 (Mark Hoppus & Travis Barker), Fallout Boy, Frankie J, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, T-Pain, Deepak Chopra, Jerry Lewis, Los Tucanes de Tijuana and many more.
IMPORTANT!! What happens if you don't get professional help? Well ask yourself this, 3 months from now how much better will my mixes sound? The reality is without proper training they won't sound much different. Yes, you can spend hours, days, and weeks trying to find YouTube clips online, but they only do so much. This mixing class has over 4+ hours of instruction from a professional Recording Studio with over 25 years of experience servicing some of the biggest bands in the world. Invest in something that matters, your passion in creating music! We're the answer to help you get better. Who this course is for:
Intermediate to advanced audio engineers and enthusiasts who want to learn industry standard mixing techniques and mixing secrets used by professional engineers on todays hit records.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
398 Reviews
Signature Sound
Signature Sound has been in business for over 25 years servicing Artists/Bands such as U2, Blink 182, Switchfoot, Akon, and Producers such as Jerry Finn, Steve Churchyard, Vincent Di Pasquale, Kiko Cibrian and many more. Signature Sound's commitment is to share our vast experience and expertise on a global scale. Learning from working professionals who record & mix on a day-to-day basis and who are up to date with the latest and most effective recording and mixing techniques is an outstanding resource to learn from. We believe Music is a very subjective, but we also believe diversity is crucial because not only does it allows you to expand your clientele or improve your bands recordings, but it also helps you Discover Your Signature Sound.
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Reviews
By Phil McKernan on 10/22/2020
Very Informative!!!
By Karol Konop on 9/17/2020
Rhather than listening what FX channels are in the session I'd like to hear why each of them is there.
By Andrea Lombardo on 9/17/2020
very good course with lots of very useful techniques, well explained.
By Nikolaos Hatzinikolaou on 8/1/2020
tima informao
By Noahail John on 7/13/2020
Amazing and easy to learn through courses like this.
Thank You
By Christiaan Kritzinger on 6/8/2020
Loving the deetail we are going in too . Frustrating to get the same sound out of cubase , the cubase VSTs definitely have a different sonic value but it forces me to think and not just copy the course.
Thanks, even as a "pro" i am still learning allot.
By Robert Schmidt on 6/6/2020
Das ist sehr oberflchlich und entspricht nicht den erwartungen die es in der beschreibung weckt. ich bin erfahren und das ist nichtssagend bzw. bringend. das kann man sich auch kostenlos bei youtube beibringen.
By Graham Turner on 5/9/2020
I'vI've really enjoyed this course; it helped me with my knowledge , but also with building a basic template that I can now use going forward.
By Azman AL Ibrahim on 5/5/2020
yes it is a good match for me. thank you
By Matt Bearman on 4/26/2020
While Ian is clearly a very skilled engineer, I felt this course was far too specific to the song he was mixing.
There was a lot of going over what he had done in the mix, but not enough of the "why", and very rarely did he give more general examples of how you could use a technique when mixing a different song.
I think it would have helped if the song hadn't already been mixed in advance, and instead Ian had filmed his actual mixing process, explaining his process as he went though.
I gave two stars as there were definitely some good nuggets of information in there, but over all I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this course.
By Ryan Johnson on 4/8/2020
I literally took notes on everything. I watched the videos, took notes and then went to the project and from what I wrote down I mixed the song. I really learned so much more from this class than any other class or my audio engineering courses. It was like an in-depth look into Ian Sutton's mind rather than a mixing class. How he perceives a mix and how it should sound. It gave me an understanding of more than I could ever have learned scrubbing through youtube videos, which I love doing, and reading books, love doing as well. This is by far out of my 17 years of work and love in the recording and mixing business the most informative information I've ever had. Of course without understanding the basics and how to use your tools this class would not be much help. If you have a firm or even just a basic understanding of how to use your tools and sends/auxs then this class will take you far. I am so glad I took this course. Its very intense and lots of information is jam packed. I wrote down almost everything he commented on. There is a vocal trick he uses with the tracks and also with the bass that I have heard about or have heard hinted about but I've never seen it gone into much depth or detail until I saw this course. It really brought out the understanding of how to get the cleanest sounding vocals without them getting washed out with reverb and other fx but still having all those fx stand out so powerfully without sounding amatuer, basically like something Adele or Rhianna would have on their vocals. This is a game-changer and so much can be said that can't be typed here in one night. Thanks Ian Sutton you have saved me from my mental worry questions of not knowing what to do next in a mix to fix the issues I was having. The questions I had have been answered and now I'm on to just finding more darn questions and other answers to those, but these new questions are going to be subtler than the ones you helped me finally get answered. Thank you!
By Aashman Sabharwal on 4/4/2020
Thanks so much for this course Ian. This is definitely what I was looking for. This course takes you into the depths of how professional mixes are done. I would highly recommend this course to take your mixing skills to the next level.
This course was neither too simple nor too complex for me. It helped apply my knowledge to actual mixes and showed me how the professionals do it.
Thanks again
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Overall Score : 90 / 100






