Extra Tutorials (Commonly Sought Techniques)
Here's a series of extras that will help you achieve commonly sought techniques such as the telephone loss effect, fatter kicks, gated reverb (Industrial anyone) and you can even find out how to make your own tutorials. This series of tutorials is all about practical applications so whip out your favorite DAW and let's get our hands dirty.

 

Before we proceed with our next set of videos I thought it might be useful for you guys to have access to this Interactive Frequency Chart It has a lot of information that will be helpful as we continue into the next section on mixing. Keep in mind that you will need to allow scripts in order to be able to interact with it.

Mixing
Our next series of tutorials will focus on mixing. Since this is where the releases have stopped by Wickiemedia we will have to wait for continuation of this season. Please be patient as it takes him a long time to make the tutorials particularly because of their quality.

 

Frito bro, glad you're here to join us. Thanks so much for all your kind words my friend and let me be the first to congratulate you in your new role as Dean Of Girls Locker Rooms. Go out there and make us proud, we're counting on you.

Apparently I tried to introduce too much awesomeness at once and I may have fried a circuit on AudioSex. However you helped out just with your presence and you don't even know it. Thanks to your post I was able to finally get those last 8 videos on page 2 which should alleviate some of the bottlenecks. I don't think the pictures are the root cause as I removed some and wasn't all that impressed with the change. Also your suggestion is great for our users and I use it myself but I am on Chrome right now because it's faster for me to post and do all the searches I need. Honestly I prefer Firefox because of the customizability but I've been having some problems with Flash that are exacerbated by the use of said browser. I need to install an extension like that in Chrome because it's so annoying when you're working on a page in which case you have to reload all the time. I also think that for you the pictures might be bigger because NoScript blocks resizing of the images.

 

PLACEHOLDER


THE FIRST PAGE OF THIS THREAD IS THE ONLY ONE THAT IS SLOW. THE SECOND PAGE WORKS LOVELY WITHOUT SCRIPT BLOCKING SO TURN IT OFF TO GET THE FULL EXPERIENCE.

 

This is nothing short of fantastic. I'm all over this.

THANK YOU so much.

 

Thanks man, I really appreciate the kind words. I'm glad that people are enjoying the series.

 

5 Minutes To A Better Mix
Catalyst I've gotten my feet wet with mixing but I am still looking for tips and tweaks that will help me to take my mixes to the next level. Well my answer to that is: I'm way ahead of you guys. Let's get some tips and techniques on one of the most difficult areas of production. I won't be implementing YouTube embedding in this post unless requested so I've taken the liberty of making a table of contents and you can either watch all of them or just the ones that interest you. Each one is approximately 5 minutes so there's a ton of content to go through. AudioSex...taking it to the next level.

1) Proper Gain Staging
2) Mix Bus Compression
3) LCR Panning
4) High Pass Filter
5) Kick Drum Low End
6) Tape Saturation On Drums
7) Gating Drums
8) Subgroups
9) Room Mic Compression
10) Instant Effected Drum Kit
11) Compressing Bass Guitar
12) Bass Saturation
13) Piano In Mono
14) The Mute Button
15) Pre Vs. Post Fader Sends
16) Reverb Pre-Delay On Snare
17) Vocal Delay Trick
18) Wider Lead Vocals
19) Panning Harmonies Wide
20) Vocal Stutter Effect
21) Telephone Vocals Effect
22) Mixing In Mono
23) Vocal De-Esser
24) Mixing At Low Volumes
25) Vocal Rides
26) Drum Overheads Automation
27) Automate Subgroups
28) Reverse Crash
29) Limiter For Reference
30) Separate Mixing Sessions
31) Mixing Templates

 

I like the idea of videos being short, rather than a 4 hour marathon, and losing the will to live

 

5 Minutes To A Better Mix II
Just when you thought it was over we're back with more great videos from the series you all know and love presented in table of content format for your convenience, so watch them all or only the ones that interest you. Stay tuned because I have lots of content lined up and ready to go I'm just in the process of organizing it all. If you would like to contribute let us know what videos are helping your master your craft and if they offer quality content then you can be sure they'll find their way to the Academy and to our awesome family. It's all part of the AudioSex experience.

1) Volume Fader EQ
2) Most Important Section
3) Most Important Instrument
4) Phase Check Drums
5) EQ In Mono
6) Subtractive EQ
7) Avoid The Solo Button
8) Instant Drum Polish
9) Snare Drum Distortion
10) Cut Through Kick
11) The Fat Fader
12) Kick And Bass EQ
13) The Pain Frequency
14) Punchy Acoustic Guitar
15) Depth With EQ
16) Vocal Cleanup
17) Stacking Compressors
18) Vocal Presence
19) Sidechain Compression
20) Switch Vocal Delays
21) Dynamic Delay
22) Reverb Glue
23) The Attack Principle
24) The 4db Rule
25) The Instant Double
26) Octave Guitar Tricks
27) The Wide Chorus
28) The Minimal Verse
29) Percussion Layers
30) Power Of The Pad
31) Mix Versions

 

5 Minutes To A Better Mix III
And here's the third and final season available of the 5 Minutes To A Better Mix series arranged in a table of content format for your convenience. So now that you've undoubtedly learned a lot at the Academy it's time to get out there and put what you've learned into practice. Happy mixing.

1) First Impressions
2) The 24 Track Mindset
3) Steal From Pro Mixes
4) The Mix Buss Half Rule
5) The Static Mix
6) One Stereo Track
7) The Mixing Console Mindset
8) Buss Mixing
9) Compress Drums Quietly
10) Wide Drums Trick
11) Kick And Bass Sidechain
12) EQ Before Compression
13) Gain Matching Plugins
14) Fatter Snare With EQ
15) Fatter Snare With Compression
16) EQ Carving Guitars
17) The Center Guitar
18) The 10 Minute Rule
19) Drop The Bottom
20) Mute The Guitars
21) Mix Vocals Last
22) Vocal Compressor Options
23) Tighter Vocal Harmonies
24) Mix Delay Into Reverb
25) Mono Vocal Delays
26) Mixing Background Vocals
27) Panning Pockets
28) Reverse Mixing
29) The Mix EQ Check
30) Multiband Compression
31) The Final Listen

 

You have no idea how much I learned from this guy, it's insane! would recommended it to all my fellow producers

 

Glad you've enjoyed yourself, that's why I made this place and filled it with some of the best tutorials one can find. I will be expanding it as time allows but unfortunately I'm very busy on both forums. Sometimes I add videos where I have left placeholders so check back later.

 

Fantastic resource... Many thanks matey.

 

Glad to know you're enjoying it.

 

Excellent stuff Catalyst!!

This sort of suff invaluable learning tool & does it on a good level. Nice one indeed! I will be watching them all *yes*

 

Grooooovy
Thanks!

 

Wow,

I've been away for so long and I just came across this.

Catalyst, fucking hell! Man do you even sleep!? This is amazing. As you and many others know I am very new to all of ths and I am always learning. Sometimes I read your or others' comments (i.e. Evorax) about audio questions and my mind gets blasted (note: not mind-blown... MIND-FUCKING-BLASTED!!!). These series are amazing and the fact that you took the time to set it all up in content format... amazing. Thank you so much. I learn so much from you and other audiosexuals from posts like this... Just amazing.

Ok, I should get my learning cap on and start listening!

Thanks again.

 

No Demon...no I don't.

Thanks so much, really happy you found a use for this section of the forums. This is an evolving series and I've made it easy to find what you want across different installments by referencing the AudioSex Academy Table Of Contents I will expand these threads as time allows so check back from time to time. As always it's my pleasure, we all learn from each other. That video you made was amazing, even sent the link to SAiNT.