Thought I'd pass this along...

Bobby Owsinski (author of the the Mix Engineer Handbook, the Mastering Engineer Handbook, Mixing and Mastering w/ T-Racks, and many others) has a 9 hours audio mixing course called Audio Mixing Bootcamp, available on Lynda.com.

The cool thing is that, Lynda.com offers free one week trials. So if you have time to kill at work or something... ;)

If you need the basics covered, this is a very nice series of vids - nothing esoteric, just the basics - prepping the mix, creating your balance, using compression, eq, how to set up reverb, delay, and such... 

BTW - If you think that your mixes suck just because you don't have a UAD card or Waves plug-ins, these will show you otherwise and may help you save some money or at least, spend it more wisely.... ;) He uses nothing but the basic Pro Tools plug-ins. 

Lynda.com also has some pretty cool tutorials for a lot of things, from Photoshop to Pro Tools. Nothing about Sonar, but still  - may be of interest...

I'll check it out.  Thanks, Rain.  

Nice heads up. Thanks. I've talked to Bobby on a couple of occassions and suggested some new ideas for some books, as if he needs them. He is a great and personable fellow. My first mixing book was V1 of his MEH book.

Rain


Thought I'd pass this along...

Bobby Owsinski (author of the the Mix Engineer Handbook, the Mastering Engineer Handbook, Mixing and Mastering w/ T-Racks, and many others) has a 9 hours audio mixing course called Audio Mixing Bootcamp, available on Lynda.com.

The cool thing is that, Lynda.com offers free one week trials. So if you have time to kill at work or something... ;)

If you need the basics covered, this is a very nice series of vids - nothing esoteric, just the basics - prepping the mix, creating your balance, using compression, eq, how to set up reverb, delay, and such... 

BTW - If you think that your mixes suck just because you don't have a UAD card or Waves plug-ins, these will show you otherwise and may help you save some money or at least, spend it more wisely.... ;) He uses nothing but the basic Pro Tools plug-ins. 

Lynda.com also has some pretty cool tutorials for a lot of things, from Photoshop to Pro Tools. Nothing about Sonar, but still  - may be of interest...

*Shameless plug* And for those that DO have Sonar, you have me to create custom videos for you. :) I'm no Bobby Owsinski, but I pretty much do the same things. Save people money, show that you don't need massive amounts of gear to get good results, and most importantly, how to listen to things correctly and make the right calls. So Sonar users have options too....they just gotta deal with my accent. :)
 
-Danny

Danny Danzi

Rain


Thought I'd pass this along...

Bobby Owsinski (author of the the Mix Engineer Handbook, the Mastering Engineer Handbook, Mixing and Mastering w/ T-Racks, and many others) has a 9 hours audio mixing course called Audio Mixing Bootcamp, available on Lynda.com.

The cool thing is that, Lynda.com offers free one week trials. So if you have time to kill at work or something... ;)

If you need the basics covered, this is a very nice series of vids - nothing esoteric, just the basics - prepping the mix, creating your balance, using compression, eq, how to set up reverb, delay, and such... 

BTW - If you think that your mixes suck just because you don't have a UAD card or Waves plug-ins, these will show you otherwise and may help you save some money or at least, spend it more wisely.... ;) He uses nothing but the basic Pro Tools plug-ins. 

Lynda.com also has some pretty cool tutorials for a lot of things, from Photoshop to Pro Tools. Nothing about Sonar, but still  - may be of interest...

*Shameless plug* And for those that DO have Sonar, you have me to create custom videos for you. :) I'm no Bobby Owsinski, but I pretty much do the same things. Save people money, show that you don't need massive amounts of gear to get good results, and most importantly, how to listen to things correctly and make the right calls. So Sonar users have options too....they just gotta deal with my accent. :)
 
-Danny

You have a YouTube channel or something Danny? I've seen you "distributing" your vids in context of specific convesations here, but I didn't know whether you had them all somewhere online. I seem to recall that they were in a proprietary Windows format though, so I don't think I could check them out.

I sure would appreciate - I do have a few excerpts from your posts pasted into notes on my laptop for quick reference. ;)

Rain
You have a YouTube channel or something Danny? I've seen you "distributing" your vids in context of specific convesations here, but I didn't know whether you had them all somewhere online. I seem to recall that they were in a proprietary Windows format though, so I don't think I could check them out. I sure would appreciate - I do have a few excerpts from your posts pasted into notes on my laptop for quick reference. ;)

 
I do have a Youtube channel, but no Rain, unfortunately brother, I don't offer them online. All the video's I do these days are for clients that have contacted me about specific techniques or full mixes where I run video while I mix their song.
 
I have about 30 that I've done for fun over the years, but nothing that anyone would take serious because most times I have a bit too much fun in those situations. LOL! But the vids I do now are custom made to a persons needs.
 
I have several students (as well as clients) that send me entire mixes via bundle files or wave files if they use another DAW other than Sonar. I load them up and show them how to fix them instrument at a time...what to listen for, why I use certain things, what to do, what not to do, where they did good, where they failed, why something sounds bad etc etc...it's pretty intense.
 
I cover anything and everthing. Compression, effects, busses, parallel compression, imaging, eq, tricks I use personally...stuff like that. Some of the videos may be 6 chapters. Drums alone usually is a video all in itself.
 
It's like....imagine sending one of your mixes to someone to where you could sit with them and watch them do the entire mix from the ground up while asking questions. Of course "the questions" usually come after they see the video, but I try my best to answer whatever they may ask during the video so they ask less questions through mail or on the phone. That's the best way I can explain it really. :) What's good is, the stuff I teach will work on any DAW. I just use Sonar as my weapon of choice and often times use the plugs that are supplied with it unless someone calls for something like UAD or they say "hey Danny, mix it the way YOU would mix it". Then I have some fun. :)
 
-Danny

Danny Danzi

Rain
You have a YouTube channel or something Danny? I've seen you "distributing" your vids in context of specific convesations here, but I didn't know whether you had them all somewhere online. I seem to recall that they were in a proprietary Windows format though, so I don't think I could check them out. I sure would appreciate - I do have a few excerpts from your posts pasted into notes on my laptop for quick reference. ;)

 
I do have a Youtube channel, but no Rain, unfortunately brother, I don't offer them online. All the video's I do these days are for clients that have contacted me about specific techniques or full mixes where I run video while I mix their song.
 
I have about 30 that I've done for fun over the years, but nothing that anyone would take serious because most times I have a bit too much fun in those situations. LOL! But the vids I do now are custom made to a persons needs.
 
I have several students (as well as clients) that send me entire mixes via bundle files or wave files if they use another DAW other than Sonar. I load them up and show them how to fix them instrument at a time...what to listen for, why I use certain things, what to do, what not to do, where they did good, where they failed, why something sounds bad etc etc...it's pretty intense.
 
I cover anything and everthing. Compression, effects, busses, parallel compression, imaging, eq, tricks I use personally...stuff like that. Some of the videos may be 6 chapters. Drums alone usually is a video all in itself.
 
It's like....imagine sending one of your mixes to someone to where you could sit with them and watch them do the entire mix from the ground up while asking questions. Of course "the questions" usually come after they see the video, but I try my best to answer whatever they may ask during the video so they ask less questions through mail or on the phone. That's the best way I can explain it really. :) What's good is, the stuff I teach will work on any DAW. I just use Sonar as my weapon of choice and often times use the plugs that are supplied with it unless someone calls for something like UAD or they say "hey Danny, mix it the way YOU would mix it". Then I have some fun. :)
 
-Danny

Wow, that sounds like an awesome approach, man!

Yeah it's been working quite well. I do about 5 video lessons per week these days...sometimes more. But it's been at least 5 for the past year or so. I just wish they didn't take so long to render! I love doing them and the people I've been doing them for have enjoyed them also. Quite a few repeat customers as well as new ones....so it looks as though it's a pretty cool approach for now. :)

I've had 3 guys from here that just needed one video lesson and their recording quality changed for the better. They were already decent before they came to me, but the change in my opinion was pretty drastic. Others that commented on their mixes noticed too so that's also a good thing. :)

-Danny   

I can't wait to see what you do with one of my songs when it's ready to be mixed!

Quick question. Do the majority of your clients finish a mix and then send you what they have done so you can analyse what they did and how to fix it? Or do you get a lot of raw, unmixed tracks, some sort of direction and the instructions to just 'mix it and make it sound good and teach me along the way'. I'm guessing the first would probably be the most valuable learning experience but the second would put a different spin on things and help you learn things a different way.

Maybe when I book in for your services I'll give you two songs, one mixed showing the direction I'm going and you can fix it, and the second one for you to just do whatever the hell you want to do with it. Best of both worlds!

Matt I can't wait to see what you do with one of my songs when it's ready to be mixed! Quick question. Do the majority of your clients finish a mix and then send you what they have done so you can analyse what they did and how to fix it?

 
That's the most popular way. This way I can see what you did, where you may have gone wrong, we fix bad habits etc.
 

Or do you get a lot of raw, unmixed tracks, some sort of direction and the instructions to just 'mix it and make it sound good and teach me along the way'.

 
I do that too, but when that stuff gets done, it's usually because someone wants me to mix something without video.
 

I'm guessing the first would probably be the most valuable learning experience but the second would put a different spin on things and help you learn things a different way. Maybe when I book in for your services I'll give you two songs, one mixed showing the direction I'm going and you can fix it, and the second one for you to just do whatever the hell you want to do with it. Best of both worlds!

 
Yeah we could do that too...whatever you feel the most comfortable with. Normally though, when I mess with your processed tracks I show you a few things that *I* might do if I were mixing things to my specs. You know, drum sample replacement, maybe a different guitar sound...stuff like that. Maybe some of the guys will chime in here if they see this and tell you of their experience. We'll talk when you're ready.
 
Rain: sorry for the thread hi-jacking...I just figured I'd give the Sonar users an option along the lines of what Bobby is offering but with a bit of a twist of custom lessons based on user material.
 
-Danny