The Art of Mixing and Mastering

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Mixing and Mastering Music Production Course | Oakland

Learn to mix and master at the world’s boutique music production school, in small class sizes for the best personalized experience, now with the option to pay in interest free installments.
Bring clarity, depth, and punch to your mixes in any genre, in any DAW. Discover a range of classic and innovative mixing techniques shared by our active industry audio engineers.

This class is for anyone looking to take their music from production, all the way to the radio. You will learn how to navigate the industry as an audio engineer, mixing for clients or yourself, and will train your ears to be ready for any project that comes your way.

View the dropdown boxes below to discover what you will learn in this class. Listed material is not in chronological order, and class material is not limited to these topics.

Mixing & Mastering

EQ, Environment, Acoustics & Separation

Studio monitor speaker design
Acoustics and physics
How to use your ears for mixing
The art of balancing and panning
All about mono and stereo
EQ

Dynamics

All about compression
In-depth with the parameters
Types of compression circuitry (optical, valve, etc.) and their digital emulations
Parallel dynamic processing
Gates and de-essers
Dynamic controller tips to achieve clarity in your mix

Reverbs, Delays & Other FX

Types of reverb and delay, where and how to use them
In-depth with all the parameters
Spatialisation with convolution reverbs and delays
Phaser, flanger, chorus, pitch shifters, harmonisers and creative FX
Tips on how to make your records come to life with FX

Mixing Vocals

Preparing vocals, vocal comping and tuning vocals
Getting separation between lead and BVs
Tips on automating levels (rides)
FX Chains for your vocal sound

Creative Mixing

Filtering and samples
Vocoder, Ring Modulators, Envelopers, Auto-panning, distortion and bit crushing
Sidechaining dynamic controllers and filters for FX
Getting creative with reverb and delay
Pitch shifters, harmonisers and creative FX
Saturation
Automation

Analysis & The Final Mix

Active listening and critiquing of released mixes
Analysis and critique of your mixes
The mix revision process
Preparing your mix for the master process

Mastering

Using references to get your EQ and separation. A/Bing
EQ, brick wall limiting, levels, and phase
Which mastering plugins to use – dos and don’ts
Other useful metering tools and techniques

Additional Information

Use your own laptop, or use our macbooks free of charge.
Headphones are available to use.
Personal USB drive or SSD for storing your files is recommended
Our small class sizes allow for instructors to curate class content to the students wants and needs.
Students receive access to numerous discounts on production software.

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Testimonials

The instructor was amazing. To be able to learn mixing and mastering in 36 hours is unbelievable!

COG

I have taken about 3 mixing courses online and learned something from each. This by far was the most helpful because it tied everything together and having a hands-on approach is the best. The instructor was super enthusiastic and patient as well. For the price and being a one week full session, nothing else compares.

Biren M Patel

The teacher is awesome, his enthusiasm and knowledge makes the class a blast while taking in tons of useful tips/techniques.

Sep

Darryl Swann. Enough said. He is a passionate, humble, experienced, and incredible human. He would help any of his students in anyway he could and he loves teaching. We now work together outside of Garnish and I couldn't be happier to have connected with him through Garnish.

Patrick McCutcheon

I came into the class with a good understanding of my DAW (Logic Pro X course here at Garnish) but minimal knowledge of mixing/mastering. I thought the class was a great supplement to the knowledge I gained from the Logic Pro X course. I never felt lost, and now know how to achieve a clean mix and master.

Kevin Yee

I won't change anything. I learned and enjoyed a lot! Good location and neighborhood, nice people and easy parking.

Mono Villa

I've been producing music for 15-20 years and even have a recording arts degree. The instructors were absolutely amazing and helped me grasp mixing and mastering in a very relatable down to earth way. I feel like my production has finally taken the step up it needed. Loved the class and would love to take more courses at Garnish. Great learning

Jeremy Wells

Instructors are well-experienced and can speak from tremendous amounts of real-world experience. They are also very passionate - not just about music and working in the industry, but they are passionate about teaching and getting the students the best learning experience possible. This makes a big difference in how successful the course is for the students… We were also able to get a lot of detailed and hands-on work - which was great!

Alan G

Garnish mix classes helped me the strengthen and expand my knowledge in mixing and mastering techniques immensely. With Grammy-winning engineers, what more could you hope for?!

Bernardo Passarinho

At last I have a clear perspective of how mixing and mastering works!

Andres Alzate

definitely learned so much in this course. The techniques on mixing and mastering that I learned in this class really helped me take my music to another level.

Raymond Medina

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