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Mixing & Mastering Class | Seattle

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Mixing & Mastering Course – Make Your Tracks Sound Pro

Struggling to get your mix to sound polished and powerful? Know the basics but your tracks still don’t bump like they should? You’re not alone—and our Mixing & Mastering Course is designed exactly for producers like you.

In today’s crowded music landscape, a clean, professional mix isn’t just nice to have—it’s essential. If your productions lack depth, clarity, or that final touch of finesse, we’ll show you how to fix it. Since 2010, we’ve been teaching producers how to elevate their sound using a mix of classic engineering techniques and cutting-edge tricks. Discover qualities that distinguish us.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Create space, punch, and balance in your mix
  • Use EQ, compression, and reverb like a pro
  • Polish your final master for streaming and release
  • Avoid common pitfalls that kill clarity and energy

Whether you’re mixing house, hip hop, pop, or cinematic soundscapes, this course will help you dial in a professional sound—fast.

Available in-person worldwide or LIVE online. All learners must bring a laptop with their DAW of choice installed.

Prerequisite: This is an intermediate-level course. You’ll need a solid understanding of your DAW and the basics of music production. Not quite there yet? Take one of our DAW courses first—or reach out and we’ll help you figure out where to start.

Environment, Acoustics, EQ & Separation

  • Speaker design for studio monitors
  • How to handle your home studio acoustics
  • Stereo, mono, stereo & 5.1 surround sound software
  • The delicate art of panning and balance
  • Specialist EQ tutoring to help your production

Dynamics

  • Why is compression so important and how does it work
  • Getting to grips with parameters
  • Circuitry within compression & other digital emulations
  • Parallel processing dos and don'ts
  • De-essing and gating techniques
  • Achieve amazing clarity in your mix with dynamic controllers

Delay, Reverb and other Awesome FX

  • Learn about different types of delay and reverb
  • An in-depth look at all parameters
  • Spatialization with convolution delays and reverbs
  • Harmonizers, pitch shifters, flangers, phasers and creative FX
  • How FX can transform your tracks and really bring them to life

Recording Techniques and Introduction to Sound Design

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  • Introduction to sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
  • The recording patch in detail, introduction to gain structure
  • EQ and compression for recording
  • Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
  • Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
  • Microphones overview and stereo miking techniques
  • Recording specific aspects of Ableton
  • Compiling audio takes

Mixing Electronic Music

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  • Great tips on filters for FX, punch, ducking and side chaining dynamic controllers
  • The best ways to use delay and reverb
  • How to turn subtle sounds into monsters
  • Interesting electronic mixing techniques which apply to all music
  • Learn to improve and analyze every element of the mix
  • Electronic listening critique (bring in your music)
  • Great tips on filters for FX, punch, ducking and side chaining dynamic controllers
  • The best ways to use delay and reverb
  • How to turn subtle sounds into monsters
  • Interesting electronic mixing techniques which apply to all music
  • Learn to improve and analyze every element of the mix
  • Electronic listening critique (bring in your music)

Mastering Intro (Click here for full mastering course)

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  • Leveling, phasers, EQ & brick wall limiting
  • The 'dos and don'ts' of using mastering software & plugins
  • Learn about the best metering tools and their application
  • Live music listening critique (bring in your music)
Testimonials

What our students say.

definitely learned so much in this course. The techniques on mixing and mastering that I learned in this class really helped me take my music to another level.

Raymond Medina

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

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Why choose Garnish?

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