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The Mastercourse
Start Your Journey

Begin your journey with this in-depth course where you will learn about balancing, gain staging, and the transformative "less is more" approach. Through immersive VR experiences, master essential techniques including drum tuning, acoustic treatment and monitor placement to start you on your journey towards professional-grade mixing.

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The Mastercourse
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Elevate your skills where Hannes guides you through advanced drum tuning, EQ, compression, and spatial design. Focus on shaping soundwaves, dynamic control, and creating depth, refining your mix with minimal processing for a clear and polished sound.

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The Mastercourse
Career Skills

In the final module, fine-tune your mix with advanced techniques getting to grips with low-end control, vocal processing, and bus effects. Learn how to create 3D sound and use automation to add life and depth to your tracks, ensuring your mix sounds great everywhere.

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Unlock your full potential with the complete Mastercourse Bundle. Led by Hannes Bieger, this comprehensive series covers everything from foundational principles to advanced techniques, empowering you to mix tracks that stand out with professional clarity and impact

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VR, virtual reality creates a completely virtual environment within the headset, blocking out the real world. MR, mixed reality allows you to engage with the virtual studio in the real world.

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Part 1  — Available September

Mixed Reality Modules

  • Drum Tuning
  • Acoustic Treatment
  • Monitor Placement

Introduction

  • Basic concepts and goals
  • Less is more
  • Techniques instead of technology
  • The right balance
  • The build of a mix
  • Common problems
  • Less is more“ approach
  • Solving problems

Preparation

The Creative Bermuda Triangle

  • File formats and handling
  • Project organisation/folder structure
  • Importing the files
  • Grouping
  • Rough mix(es) and reference track(s)

Monitoring

What you hear is
(the opposite of) what you get

  • Basic studio layout
  • Monitor speakers
  • Mixing with headphones
  • The signal path
  • Curating a reference playlist
  • Working with a reference playlist
  • Using metering tools

Basic Mixing

Focusing on the simple things

  • Gain staging
  • Mono vs. stereo signals
  • Time domain and frequency domain
  • Panning signals
  • Cleaning up the sound
  • Low cuts and high cuts
  • Balancing
  • Fader balance vs. EQ
  • Finding the sweet spot

Part 2  — Available December

Drum Tuning

The Most Important Step in the Process

  • The concept
  • The tools
  • How it works
  • The different drum elements

EQ

Shaping Soundwaves

  • EQ 101
  • EQ concepts: surgical vs. sweetening
  • Resonances
  • Minimal invasive filtering
  • Bell/Shelve/Tilt
  • The „Pultec trick“ demystified

Philosophical Interlude

If in doubt, make it loud or leave it out

Compression

Control, cohesion, and character

  • Compression 101
  • Types of compression
  • Automation vs. compression
  • Use cases
  • Multiband: yay or nay
  • Compression vs. Dynamic EQ
  • Parallel compression demystified

Philosophical Interlude 

Music is the greatest art form that doesn’t even exist

Spatial Design

Setting the Soundstage

  • Basic concepts
  • Depth layers in a mix
  • Reverb 101
  • Delay 101
  • Pre-delay and decay
  • Creating depth with early reflections
  • Creating one-shot tails
  • Reverb tails as pads
  • Channel inserts vs. send effects
  • Bus routings with reverbs and delays
  • Sound design with reverbs

Mixing and Groove

Let it Roll

  • Delays as groove tools
  • Sidechain compression
  • Reverb and delay parameters
  • Tools and techniques and how they influence the groove

Part 3  — Available December

Mixing Low End

Fundamental Issues

  • Monitoring 101
  • The toolbox
  • The sequence is key
  • Drum tuning: benefits and limits
  • Sidechain compression: yay or nay
  • Bass drum shaping

Mixing Vocals

Acoustic Signals in an Electronic World

  • Vocal 101
  • Cleaning up the sound
  • Editing and comping
  • Tuning
  • Automation
  • EQ
  • Compression
  • De-essing
  • Placement and treatment

Buss Processing

Group Therapy

  • Routing concepts
  • Less is more
  • Bussing vs. grouping
  • Drum buss processing: Compression
  • Drum buss processing: EQ
  • Drum buss processing: Saturation
  • Vocal buss processing: EQ
  • Vocal buss processing: Compression

Advanced Mixing & Techniques

Going the Extra Mile

  • Ideas and concepts
  • The sound stage
  • Modelling 3D sonic sculptures
  • Placing sounds
  • Automation
  • Creating drama and big sounds
  • The yin and yang principle
  • Telling a story with a mix

Philosophical Interlude

  • Emphasize the flaws the „good“ ones

Mixing The Bigger Picture

No Mix is an Island

  • The different stages
  • The earlier quality occurs, the better
  • Ingredients
  • Tackling issues at the source
  • Fixing it in the mix?
  • Arrangement is key

Exporting The Mix

The Launchpad

  • Master buss processing: yay or nay
  • Export for mastering
  • Export for DJ testing

Famous Last Words

  • Gardening, not architecture!

Mixing Low End

Fundamental Issues

  • Monitoring 101
  • The toolbox
  • The sequence is key
  • Drum tuning: benefits and limits
  • Sidechain compression: yay or nay
  • Bass drum shaping

Mixing Vocals

Acoustic Signals in an Electronic World

  • Vocal 101
  • Cleaning up the sound
  • Editing and comping
  • Tuning
  • Automation
  • EQ
  • Compression
  • De-essing
  • Placement and treatment

Buss Processing

Group Therapy

  • Routing concepts
  • Less is more
  • Bussing vs. grouping
  • Drum buss processing: Compression
  • Drum buss processing: EQ
  • Drum buss processing: Saturation
  • Vocal buss processing: EQ
  • Vocal buss processing: Compression

Advanced Mixing & Techniques

Going the Extra Mile

  • Ideas and concepts
  • The sound stage
  • Modelling 3D sonic sculptures
  • Placing sounds
  • Automation
  • Creating drama and big sounds
  • The yin and yang principle
  • Telling a story with a mix

Philosophical Interlude

  • Emphasize the flaws the „good“ ones

Mixing The Bigger Picture

No Mix is an Island

  • The different stages
  • The earlier quality occurs, the better
  • Ingredients
  • Tackling issues at the source
  • Fixing it in the mix?
  • Arrangement is key

Exporting The Mix

The Launchpad

  • Master buss processing: yay or nay
  • Export for mastering
  • Export for DJ testing

Famous Last Words

  • Gardening, not architecture!

Mixed Reality Modules

  • Coming Soon

Drum Tuning

The Most Important Step in the Process

  • The concept
  • The tools
  • How it works
  • The different drum elements

EQ

Shaping Soundwaves

  • EQ 101
  • EQ concepts: surgical vs. sweetening
  • Resonances
  • Minimal invasive filtering
  • Bell/Shelve/Tilt
  • The „Pultec trick“ demystified

Philosophical Interlude

If in doubt, make it loud or leave it out

Compression

Control, cohesion, and character

  • Compression 101
  • Types of compression
  • Automation vs. compression
  • Use cases
  • Multiband: yay or nay
  • Compression vs. Dynamic EQ
  • Parallel compression demystified

Philosophical Interlude 

Music is the greatest art form that doesn’t even exist

Spatial Design

Setting the Soundstage

  • Basic concepts
  • Depth layers in a mix
  • Reverb 101
  • Delay 101
  • Pre-delay and decay
  • Creating depth with early reflections
  • Creating one-shot tails
  • Reverb tails as pads
  • Channel inserts vs. send effects
  • Bus routings with reverbs and delays
  • Sound design with reverbs

Mixing and Groove

Let it Roll

  • Delays as groove tools
  • Sidechain compression
  • Reverb and delay parameters
  • Tools and techniques and how they influence the groove

Mixed Reality Modules(Free)

  • Drum Tuning
  • Acoustic Treatment
  • Monitor Placement

Introduction(Free)

  • Basic concepts and goals
  • Less is more
  • Techniques instead of technology
  • The right balance
  • The build of a mix
  • Common problems
  • Less is more“ approach
  • Solving problems

Preparation*

The Creative Bermuda Triangle

  • File formats and handling
  • Project organisation/folder structure
  • Importing the files
  • Grouping
  • Rough mix(es) and reference track(s)

Monitoring*

What you hear is
(the opposite of) what you get

  • Basic studio layout
  • Monitor speakers
  • Mixing with headphones
  • The signal path
  • Curating a reference playlist
  • Working with a reference playlist
  • Using metering tools

Basic Mixing*

Focusing on the simple things

  • Gain staging
  • Mono vs. stereo signals
  • Time domain and frequency domain
  • Panning signals
  • Cleaning up the sound
  • Low cuts and high cuts
  • Balancing
  • Fader balance vs. EQ
  • Finding the sweet spot

*Not Included in the Free Trial