Mixing and Mastering Toolbox

Studio One is a mixing and mastering machine and Gary Hiebner is here to show you all the tools that this Presonus DAW has buried deep in its vast audio toolbox... Mixing and mastering is the secret sauce of any audio production. In this collection of tutorials you learn all about mixing and mastering "in-the-box" with Studio One. With its robust mixer and plethora of innovative plugins, Studio One can handle any genre of music you can throw at it! This course takes you through the final stages of the production process where you learn all about the mix console, setting levels, pro audio processing, automation and side chaining as well as bus compression and very cool bus folders. Once the track is mixed, Gary sets up a mastering project. This is where all of the songs in your album come together and are fused into a coherent collection. Here you are taken step-by-step through all of Studio One’s mastering plugins. You learn about loudness. You also dive into frequencies and see how to use the very cool Spectral Meter. Gary also explains the all-important mastering plugin chain and how multi-band compressors and limiters are deployed to get that platinum audio sound! This course comes to a conclusion with a section on dithering, burning and sharing your beautifully mixed and mastered tunes! Table of contents: 1. Preparing a Song for Mixing 2. Setting Up Markers 3. The Mix Console 4. EQing Tracks 5. Dynamics with Compression 6. Reverb for Depth 7. Delay and Modulation FX 8. Sidechain Compression 9. Getting Deeper with Automation 10. Bus and Folder Automation 11. Bus Compression on Bus Folders 12. Exporting the Mixdown 13. Setting Up a Mastering Project 14. Editing Songs in the Project 15. Adjusting Volumes of Tracks 16. Adding Inserts for the Pre, Master and Post 17. Mastering Chain Order 18. Using 'Detect Loudness' 19. The Spectral and Output Meters 20. Using Multiband Compression 21. Limiting Your Tracks 22. Disable Tracks 23. Dithering 24. Burning a CD 25. Images and DDP Explained 26. Digital Releases