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Mixing Dance Music Course - Ableton Live

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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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Content

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

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Reviews

miguel mayen

Course rating: 10/10

The course was amazing; it covered plenty of aspects that I was not familiar with. It gave me tons of inputs on how to make my tracks sound a lot better. Regarding our tutor, Steve was hard on the reviews, which made it even better; sometimes people are to touchy feeling wise and rarely give you a good critique. Steve totally did it in a good way so you could understand the subject even more.

Mo Rada

Course rating: 10/10

All info had substance. Very few occasions did i find myself losing interest in things that did not apply to me. I have revisted some of my old projects and have improved them 10 fold. I am significantly a better producer for taking this course.

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!

David Zitney

Course rating: 10/10

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

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.