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Before we dive into some of these mixes together, I wanted to give

you some additional notes on how to use the mixes in this course,

and I want you to know exactly what to expect from these mixed

walkthroughs before we get into them.

The goal in this course, I said it before and I'll say it throughout

the course, is this course is not about how well I can mix.

It's about how well you can mix O in each and everyone of these

mixes. I'm going to leave a select couple

of things, two or three things unfinished that I think you could

pick up where I left off and enhance in one of the tracks.

I might recommend that you do vocal rides.

I specifically didn't do one of the last most important steps in

one of the tracks vocal rides because I wanted to leave that for

you to do.

I wanted to.

Listen to it with you and say we've got this track pretty much

done, but there's one last step to do and I want you to finish it.

There's another track where I suggest.

Let's do a little bit of sample replacement on this.

We've again gotten the mix 90 % of the way there.

I want you to take the last little 10 %.

Maybe I would reshape the low end slightly by finding a sample

that's going to help augment or replace the kick drum we have here

and just give a slightly different spin.

There's another track with a wrap vocal where you have some

puncheons and I've smoothed them out considerably compared to where

they were on the rough mix.

But I think you could do a last

little bit of a stage of equating to bring them even a little bit.

Or into alignment.

So in each one of these tracks,

I'm going to leave at least something last little thing undone

that I want you to enhance on your end.

Because I want to drive home that idea that this is not about me

doing the perfect mix and then giving it to you guys is here's

the mix set in stone.

No, I want to give you ideas for

how to mix.

I want to give you ideas for

opening up these sessions yourself, either from scratch, in

your own DAW, using your own favorite plugins.

Or taking the pretty much finished mix I did for you and having at

least a few extra things you can do in them, because I want you to

get in the habit of solving problems for yourself, trusting

your own judgment, your own taste, and your own instincts.

In each of these cases, I think that you'll find that the mix that

I do sounds better, I think and I hope, than the rough mix in here.

But this is ultimately a matter of taste, matter of judgment, a

matter of style, a matter of preference.

There might be times where you think maybe my mix could go a

little less bright than it did, or a little brighter than it did,

where I could goose up the vocals a little bit more, I could tuck

them back. And if you think any of those

things about my mix, you're right.

If you prefer to hear things a

different way, you're right.

And particularly if the client is

someone other than you, thinks that they would sound better

different way they are, right.

My opinion and my instincts and

where I want to go here on each of these mixes.

There's just one vision for how this could turn out.

Again, the point of this course is not to listen to my mixes and take

them as the gold standard.

If this is how mix should sound,

it's to give you insights into a process that is going to allow you

to get to your end vision much more quickly, much more easily

than ever before.

So I want to give you that

overarching framework. If you disagree with some of my

mixed choices, you're right.

Go in there and do different mix

choices that suit your preferences, your taste better.

There is no right.

One way to mix any track.

Every person is going to bring their own taste, their own values,

their own subjective judgments to what should and shouldn't happen

in these mixes.

And if you have differing opinions

on what to do, that's awesome, because it gives you a reason to

open these tracks up from scratch, the DAW of your choice, and do

them start to finish.

Do them top to bottom on your own

time. Couple other things I want to let

you know about how to use these tracks.

In each of these I've used a different law, and in each of

these mixes I've used nothing but stock plugins.

There is a mix in here with no tools using nothing but stock

plugins in Pro Tools.

There is a mix in here in Ableton

Live using nothing but stock plugins in Ableton Live.

There's a mix in here and logic using nothing but stock plugins in

logic. And one of the reasons I did this

is to show you that the techniques, the approach matter

more than the plugins.

Could I have gotten a slightly

better? Nicks and some of these cases by

using my preferred plugins of choice.

Yeah, probably, and it probably would have been quicker.

I would have had to like learn Ableton to do one of the mixes and

spend some of the mixing time learning the quirks of Ableton.

So maybe I could have done even better using my own boutique

plugins that I prefer to use.

But I think you can see that even

using really basic tools you can get reasonably professional

sounding mixes that might sound even a little bit better than

someone else's reasonably professional sounding mixes.

But when you do these for yourself, you don't have to use

nothing but stock plugins.

I did use nothing but stock

plugins A to demonstrate this principle, but also B.