Jack Wood – Creating a Professional Sound

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Course Lessons

• Course Preview 
• Introduction
• Organising Your Project
• Making a Sound Louder Without Affecting the Mix 
• Stem Mixing the Drums

Live Q&A

• Live Q&A

About This Course

Learning how to make your music sound professional does not have to be a lengthy process. If you’ve spent hours tweaking the mix of your latest track and it still doesn’t bear comparison with your favourite releases, this course will give you the help you need to take your productions to the next level with Ableton Live.

You will learn how to:

• Pro grade mixing template 
• Why sound/ sample selection is key 
• Gain staging strategy 
• Basic EQ for a clean sound 
• Sidechain compression
• Identifying issues in the mix 
• EQ and compression 
• How to make something quieter but sound louder 
• Advanced Bus Processing

Lessons:
 
1. Introduction

Jack introduces himself and what he will be covering in this course. He talks about problems he faced when starting off and what he did to overcome them to achieve professional sounding tracks.

2. Organising Your Project

Using templates to mix your tracks is key to saving time and staying consistent from track to track. Alex gives you some simple tips on setting up your project for easy and convenient workflow, from pre-loading samples into your instrument racks to using reference tracks to help your mix.

3. Making a Sound Louder Without Affecting the Mix

Jack shows you how to get the most out of your sounds without having to turn the volume up in the mix. He demonstrates how he uses basic mixing techniques such as EQ and Compression to create space in the mix for each element and let the samples shine through.

4. Stem Mixing the Drums

Jack demonstrates a ‘stem mix’ of his drum buss channel, going through each track in the group and what processing he would use to make it sit better in the mix and drum groove.

5. Live Q&A

• Would you suggest not to exaggerate with the stereo expander as it may make your tracks sound worse in clubs?
• Can you give some tips on panning on drums, synths and vocals? Why or why not?
• The majority of your track is in MIDI, would you recommend this over audio files and what is the reason why? 
• Can you show how you would go about mixing kick and bass as these are the areas I struggle with when pushing the volume for the final mix?
• I see you mix a lot in session view, do you use automation for your affects and mixing?

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