Mixing Acoustic Pop Songs.

In this course, Elmo Arteaga explains how to mix drums, percussions, keys, bass guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and vocals.

To achieve spacious and creative mixes, you will learn to use Equalizers, compressors, reverb, delays, and automation. Elmo will be introducing various production techniques to help add punch, color, and excitement to your mixes, including:

• Reinforcing your drum tracks with samples

• Splitting the bass signal

• Automating guitar tracks to create room for both acoustic guitars and electric guitars

• Side-chain processing

• Creative bussing and routing

• Working with vocal harmonies and background vocals

• How to handle male and female vocals tracks.

• Master bus processing and much more.

Mixing music is an art form, and therefore, each mixing engineer can render a unique artistic approach to a song. Good mixing engineers can add listening value to music by adding motion, depth, dynamics, and "color" to the instruments initially recorded.

This course teaches solid mixing concepts and the utilization of technology to enable students to develop their own creative approach to mixing. You should never waste time moving knobs randomly without understanding what you are doing. The principles in this class will equip you to use your mixing time efficiently and creatively and deliver good mixes consistently.