The “MIR” series concept

Sitting in on a mixing session is not something every home studio musician has the opportunity to do. I aimed to give the experience of sitting with me through a mix, sharing tips as I go and all for less cost than an hour of studio time.

This new video training product gives you an over the shoulder look at one of my mixing sessions. Over the course of a few hours I take you through the process of preparing to mix, creating a rough mix, processing, automation and finally mastering a very dynamic song.

After I made Mixing In REAPER Volume 1, I analyzed my habits and workflow and did a lot of rethinking and optimizing. This series shows many of the ways REAPER can aid in mixing flow. I also approached the mix in a different way from last time to demonstrate some other options that are available.

There are a lot of REAPER-specific tips and tricks demonstrated, but the overall mixing concepts can be applied to any DAW and genre of music.

There’s something I need to stress about this video series. It is not a step by step, how-to-mix tutorial for beginners. Because that’s not how I approach mixing… if you want the experience of having a mixing engineer explain his thought process to you as he’s mixing, this might be something you’d like.

Before you get into this course you should already have a good understanding of using EQ, single and multiband compressors, delay, reverb and other effect processors.

Here’s an excerpt from the course so you can see the exact format of the series.

What people are saying about this course

Keenen Blockson Awesome! This series is the most helpful mixing tutorial I’ve ever seen. Mid-side techniques used to be very painful to wrap my head around.

Here’s what you’ll learn from this course:

• Top-down mixing approach
• Mix bus processing for control and enhancing
• Equalizer techniques that get results fast
• Compression starting points to get the mix under control
• Gain staging strategies to avoid overloading the master
• How to organize a complex project with over 60 tracks
• Using saturation plugins to add excitement
• Blending delays and reverbs for texture and depth
• Mid-side processing techniques
• Technical and creative automation ideas that make every part of the mix special
• How to master a very dynamic mix without killing the feel

Difficulty: Intermediate