Mixing Pop and EDM

About Course

Richie Beretta is a professional producer and engineer that has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry. He has credits with Beyonce, Major Lazer and Dillon Francis to name a few. In this course, Richie demonstrates how to mix Pop & EDM. In 20 lessons, Richie will detail how to use multiple mixing techniques to elevate your tracks to the next level.

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Course Content

Starting Your Pop Mix
Richie discusses how to create a mixing plan, the importance of multi tracks in Pro Tools, track color coding to create mix groups, and where to start your mix.

Intro And Overview

03:07
Genre Semiotics: Pop & EDM

03:01
Mixing Game Plan

04:45
Importing Audio

06:06
Session Organization

09:27
Where to Start a Mix

02:57

Using Compression In Your Mix
Richie explains the the differences between parallel and direct compression, the purpose of having two parallel busses, and the purpose of a vocal parallel bus.

Mixing Your Drums and Using The Mix Bus
Richie explains the differences between a VU meter vs. a DAW meter, how the bass and kick can work together to act as one foundation, dissecting the rest of your drum kits, the mis bus and the advantages it has.

Processing Melodies and Vocals
Richie demonstrates the relationship of the guitars level to the rest of the mix and the differences between guitars with and without parallel processing.

Adding Effects To Your Mix
Richie explains how to choose the loudness of a vocal for a song, clipping words and phrases, and analog and digital processors for vocals.

About Course

This content is for Essential, Pro Path Premium, All-Access Membership Subscription, and Pro Path Basic members only.

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Starting Your Pop Mix
Richie discusses how to create a mixing plan, the importance of multi tracks in Pro Tools, track color coding to create mix groups, and where to start your mix.

Intro And Overview

Genre Semiotics: Pop & EDM

Mixing Game Plan

Importing Audio

Session Organization

Where to Start a Mix

Using Compression In Your Mix
Richie explains the the differences between parallel and direct compression, the purpose of having two parallel busses, and the purpose of a vocal parallel bus.

Parallel Compression VS. Direct Compression

Parallel Mix Busses and Parallel Drum Busses

Parallel Vocal Compression

Mixing Your Drums and Using The Mix Bus
Richie explains the differences between a VU meter vs. a DAW meter, how the bass and kick can work together to act as one foundation, dissecting the rest of your drum kits, the mis bus and the advantages it has.

Metering and Low End Balance

Kick and Bass

Completing the Drums

The Mix Bus

Mix Bus Compression

Processing Melodies and Vocals
Richie demonstrates the relationship of the guitars level to the rest of the mix and the differences between guitars with and without parallel processing.

Processing Synths

Processing Vocal Chops

Vocal Processing

Adding Effects To Your Mix
Richie explains how to choose the loudness of a vocal for a song, clipping words and phrases, and analog and digital processors for vocals.

Reverb

Vocal Delay and Widening

Conclusion

About Course

This content is for Essential, Pro Path Premium, All-Access Membership Subscription, and Pro Path Basic members only.

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Starting Your Pop Mix Richie discusses how to create a mixing plan, the importance of multi tracks in Pro Tools, track color coding to create mix groups, and where to start your mix.

Intro And Overview

Genre Semiotics: Pop & EDM

Mixing Game Plan

Importing Audio

Session Organization

Where to Start a Mix

Using Compression In Your Mix Richie explains the the differences between parallel and direct compression, the purpose of having two parallel busses, and the purpose of a vocal parallel bus.

Parallel Compression VS. Direct Compression

Parallel Mix Busses and Parallel Drum Busses

Parallel Vocal Compression

Mixing Your Drums and Using The Mix Bus Richie explains the differences between a VU meter vs. a DAW meter, how the bass and kick can work together to act as one foundation, dissecting the rest of your drum kits, the mis bus and the advantages it has.

Metering and Low End Balance

Kick and Bass

Completing the Drums

The Mix Bus

Mix Bus Compression

Processing Melodies and Vocals Richie demonstrates the relationship of the guitars level to the rest of the mix and the differences between guitars with and without parallel processing.

Processing Synths

Processing Vocal Chops

Vocal Processing

Adding Effects To Your Mix Richie explains how to choose the loudness of a vocal for a song, clipping words and phrases, and analog and digital processors for vocals.

Reverb

Vocal Delay and Widening

Conclusion

Starting Your Pop Mix
Richie discusses how to create a mixing plan, the importance of multi tracks in Pro Tools, track color coding to create mix groups, and where to start your mix.

Using Compression In Your Mix
Richie explains the the differences between parallel and direct compression, the purpose of having two parallel busses, and the purpose of a vocal parallel bus.

Mixing Your Drums and Using The Mix Bus
Richie explains the differences between a VU meter vs. a DAW meter, how the bass and kick can work together to act as one foundation, dissecting the rest of your drum kits, the mis bus and the advantages it has.

Processing Melodies and Vocals
Richie demonstrates the relationship of the guitars level to the rest of the mix and the differences between guitars with and without parallel processing.

Adding Effects To Your Mix
Richie explains how to choose the loudness of a vocal for a song, clipping words and phrases, and analog and digital processors for vocals.