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Hi, it's Justin Coletti and thanks for joining me for these practical modules of

the mixing breakthroughs course.

This first module in the practical

section of the course, we're going to just take a minute to kind of recap

everything from the theory modules and look at the session templates together.

And then as we get further into practical module, we'll hear a whole bunch of

different mixes. We've got some rock mixes, some

electronic mixes, some hip hop mixes and I've done mixes in different DAW using

nothing but stock plugins in those.

Laws, and you're going to be able to

download these sessions and all these stock plugin settings for yourself to try

these out.

I've got a session here in RO tools, I've

got a session here in logic, got a session here even in Ableton Live, which

I just used for the first time for this course and.

I have not been mixing that much, actually pretty much at all for the past

eight years because I've been focusing on mastering and also coaching my clients

who usually work in either recording or mixing or mastering.

So I've been really exclusively focused on mastering these days, but going back

into the mix, something I used to do for years and years.

Was even easier now, having been away from it after having done this mixing

breakthroughs course for you guys, the principles in this really work.

I was mixing these tracks every single one of these incredibly fast, getting

more than 80 % of the way there on each of these tracks within two hours, and

purposefully not spending any more than four hours on any of these mixes to show

you that it really can be done quickly once you have a vision and a process in

mind. And that's really the biggest thing.

So the quick recap here is just to remind you the most important part of this

course. If you've done the theory modules, you've

already gone through it.

It's getting the mindset, getting the

road map, going through some of those exercises we discussed and putting those

things into practice on your own mixes.

Now though this is always fun, is

something people have been asking for me to add on to the mixing breakthroughs

course, which is you're going to hear me mix.

This course isn't about how well I can mix, although I think you'll.

Three, that in every one of these cases, my mix is sounding significantly better

than the rough mix in really short time frame.

But more importantly than just seeing how well I can mix these things, it's about

you getting your hands on these tracks and you kind of seeing the thought

process along with me.

So I've got the template open here and I

wanted to discuss the template and want to discuss some ways that we're going to

deviate from the template in some of these mixes.

But before we do, I want to recap really the core.

Ideas from the mixing breakthroughs theory module for those of you who

skipped it and wanted to get right to this section.

You can't get away from the theory modules because it's the most important

thing, so here's a quick recap.

The major takeaways are that I want you

to figure out a new process, a new approach to mixing.

That is going to get you done with mixes faster, more confidently and more

creatively. And the biggest step number one, the most

important one, is to get as much of the technical considerations out of the way

before you mix a thing.

So that's number one.

And that's what this template is here for, that we're going to look at in some

more detail in just a second.

Once you've gotten a lot of this

technical stuff out of the way you're routing, in particular out of the way,

you can get down to mixing and.

I really recommend that you start with

the most important part of mixing.

The mixing part of mixing.

Setting levels, setting balances.

And that is the process I did in every

single one of these mixes you're going to hear in this practical section.

I spent a good at least 30 minutes on each of these mics just playing with

different levels maybe a little bit.

Longer in some cases, because once I get

the overall balances right then I can really evaluate what needs to be changed

from there, if anything.

And that's the first thing that I'm

touching after I've set all of.

The routing up, then after we're done

with balances, the next thing that I'm doing is I'm kind of cheating and going

ahead to the compression module where I'm starting the bus processing.

And if you're going to do bus processing, here's the time to do it.

In my opinion, putting it on relatively early into the mix.

If you want to mix through a compressor, if you want to mix through an EQ, want to

mix through a limiter, I would recommend putting those things on relatively early.

And I find that works a lot better than putting them on at the.

And because when you put them on the end, that's basically mastering and you're

kind of not mixing anymore O that would be kind of Step 1 and a half is if you

want bus processing at some point when you're getting near the end of final

balances, that's a good place to really get that dialed in and happening when you

get real.