Internal Mixing Tutorial Volume II
Internal Mixing is an essential resource for disk recording application users who do their mixing mainly inside their workstation. Providing hands-on strategies for using computers to make powerful, clear and perfectly balanced mixes, Internal Mixing supports you in creating them without using expensive outboard equipment. Internal Mixing includes English, French, Spanish and German soundtracks.
With more than 160 minutes of video in Volume I and over 180 minutes of video on Volume II, Internal Mixing covers tried and tested methods for achieving that often elusive sound known from professionally produced CDs and DVDs. Covering a huge range of issues surrounding mixes, Internal Mixing offers valuable insights into topics such as native and DSP-based plug-ins, the concepts behind positioning instruments and voices within a three dimensional sound field, frequency spaces, optimized mixing workflow and much, much more.
Contents of Vol. II
- Exercises with compressors
- Layering with reverb and delay
- Native and DSP-aided reverb devices
- Pre-delay as a design component
- EQing in reverb return as a design component
- Layering strategies
- Pre-fader or post-fader?
- How many reverb devices do you need? Planning depth design
- Additional aspect: Design and the use of Mute and Special FX
- Automation
- Processing single instruments
- Microphone tracks
- Refining loops (doubling, gating, compressing, reverbing)
- Exercise in editing loops
- EQing and compressing vocals
- Special aspects concerning choruses
Minimum System Requirements for the DVD-ROM:
- DVD Drive
- Quicktime 7
- Windows XP Home or Pro
- Mac OS X 10.4
- 2 GHz Processor or Faster (PC)
- 1.67 GHz Processor or Faster (Power Mac)
