Advanced EDM Mixing

Course details

While genre does not affect many mixing techniques, EDM (electronic dance music) has unique challenges. Artists want their songs to sound loud, wide, and heavy, without suppressing their unique texture or competing with the underlying rhythm. In this course, Colin Fisher teaches advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment. He'll touch on loudness and dynamics, headroom and gain, and processing with compression, limiting, and clipping, as well as show how to manipulate stereo and frequency placement like the pros do. The end result is a fat, wide, and full sound that will help your tracks break through.

Learning objectives
Using dynamics to create power
Balancing a mix
Avoiding ear fatigue
Improving consistency with gain
Working with compression, limiting, and clipping
Using subgroups
Understanding stereo and frequency placement
Tricks for achieving stereo width

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Mixdown Introduction

04 - Mixdowns explained
05 - What is loudness
06 - Using dynamics to create power
07 - Balancing a mix
08 - The importance of good audio references
09 - Avoiding ear fatigue
10 - Patience is your ally

2. Headroom and Gain

11 - What is headroom
12 - How to improve consistency with gain
13 - Ways to manage loudness

3. Compression, Limiting, and Clipping

14 - Compression, limiting, and clipping - The famed three explained
15 - Ways to use compression
16 - Ways to use limiting
17 - Ways to use clipping

4. Subgroups

18 - What are subgroups
19 - Organizing a mixdown
20 - Using a kick subgroup
21 - Using a drum subgroup
22 - Using a bass subgroup
23 - Using an instruments subgroup
24 - Using an FX subgroup
25 - Other ways of using subgroups

5. Stereo and Frequency Placement

26 - Stereo and frequency placement explained simply
27 - The philosophy of wideness
28 - Use of fatness and understanding what it means
29 - The dos and don'ts of applying width and fatness
30 - Understanding the differences between width and panning
31 - Tricks for achieving stereo width

Conclusion

32 - Next steps and additional resources

Advanced EDM Mixing

Authors

Colin Fisher