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Well, I hope you have enjoyed going through these mixes with me.

It's been a blast doing this course, it's taught me a lot about mixing to go back

through this process and if I was able to mix these tracks and get reasonably

professional sounds using nothing but stock plugins, in many cases using

plugins I've never used or even seen before, and doing them very quickly in a

matter of hours, not days, not weeks, not going back and forth.

Of these mixes again over the course of a year, getting to a really solid place,

fast tools I've never used, and potentially hamstringing myself with

tools that aren't my favorites and aren't the best ones out there and aren't

familiar to me and all that stuff.

But we can still get these things to a

good place. That's only going to happen because you

have a process and you have principles that are going to work no matter what

tools you are using.

So the most important tools are in here.

I'd say that they're the ears, but they're not even the ears.

Because the truth is, a lot of your favorite mixers, people have made some of

the records you love.

The sound of the most, can't hear as well

as you.

Some of them are in their fifties and

sixties and even seventies and do great work, and there's a good chance that

you're younger than that.

The Dirty little secret is that hearing

gets worse as you age, and a lot of people in their fifties and sixties and

seventies can't really hear high frequencies the way that maybe you can if

you're a couple decades younger than they are.

But what they have going on is a mindset that works for mixing, because mixing

isn't about hearing, it's about listening.

It's about decision making.

It's also about strategizing.

And I think that this is the big thing in the mixing breakthroughs course is giving

you a strategy, an approach, a road map for mixing.

You could very well not even like my mixes for this course and still come away

with some tremendous benefits from this course.

Because it's about giving you a framework that I've seen not only work for me in

getting me to better results than I'd otherwise be able to get, and much more

quickly and with more confidence and with less second guessing, but I've seen it

work for so many others.

When you use the techniques in this

course, you're using techniques, strategies, and approaches that I have

called from watching the best mixers work for more than the past decade I've spent

interviewing. Producing content master classes with

studying the work of opening their sessions, working alongside, asking every

which way a question.

I can, you know, interviewing Michael

Brauer five times we looked at one of his mixes like I know this guy's approach.

I've studied the way that he does things, and not just him, because there are

certain things that he does that are slightly different than what I might

recommend to the average person.

But also Mikuszewski and John Congleton

and Joel Hamilton and all these and Joe Chiccarelli these people have interviewed

and studied to get.

Their sense for how they go about it,

because I always ask people about their process whenever I interview them.

What's your approach? What are the things you do first?

What order do you do things in? Do you start with everything up?

Do you start with some elements up? Do you start this way?

Do you start that way? And I've really tried to base this course

around the common threads that I found in their answers.

Do every single one of the great mixers do exactly the step by step process I've

discussed in mixing breakthroughs? No, and not even I do, and I don't expect

you to do.

Exactly the road map I've plotted out,

but it is an order of operations that some people do.

And that has so many similarities with the way so many different mixers do

things. And the biggest thing I found is that

people who have taken this course, actual students who've tried this process, have

told me how much better their mixes have gotten, how much more comfortable and

confident and fast they've felt by applying these techniques.

Not only has that happened, but some of them have become my mastering clients and

sent me tracks to work on and asked me for feedback on their mixes.

And I've been.

Blown away by some of these.

One particular guy, a guy named Guy, actually sent me a bunch of tracks just

recently where he sent me his original mix he did before watching mixing

breakthroughs, and his revised mix he did after watching mixing breakthroughs.

And man, the difference in before and after was astounding.

I mean, the relationships were better, the mood of the track was better, the

feel of the track was better, the sound of the track was better.

And it's not just him.

There are so many.

Folks out there, I believe Richie has taken the course.

He was a big fan of it.

I've mastered some of his records and

just tremendous results.

Like I couldn't improve on his mixes and

I'm having so many students over the course follow up and send me their mixes

and say wow, taking this really.