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Mixing/Mixdown

Mixing/Mixdown

Mixing/Mix-down Course
-Worldwide or LIVE Online

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

Balancing, introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
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

 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)

 A/B’ing & how to get the best from your separation and EQ
 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

The instructor was amazing. To be able to learn mixing and mastering in 36 hours is unbelievable!

COG

I have taken about 3 mixing courses online and learned something from each. This by far was the most helpful because it tied everything together and having a hands-on approach is the best. The instructor was super enthusiastic and patient as well. For the price and being a one week full session, nothing else compares.

Biren M Patel

The teacher is awesome, his enthusiasm and knowledge makes the class a blast while taking in tons of useful tips/techniques.

Sep

Darryl Swann. Enough said. He is a passionate, humble, experienced, and incredible human. He would help any of his students in anyway he could and he loves teaching. We now work together outside of Garnish and I couldn't be happier to have connected with him through Garnish.

Patrick McCutcheon

I came into the class with a good understanding of my DAW (Logic Pro course here at Garnish) but minimal knowledge of mixing/mastering. I thought the class was a great supplement to the knowledge I gained from the Logic Pro course. I never felt lost, and now know how to achieve a clean mix and master.

Kevin Yee

I won't change anything. I learned and enjoyed a lot! Good location and neighborhood, nice people and easy parking.

Mono Villa

I've been producing music for 15-20 years and even have a recording arts degree. The instructors were absolutely amazing and helped me grasp mixing and mastering in a very relatable down to earth way. I feel like my production has finally taken the step up it needed. Loved the class and would love to take more courses at Garnish. Great learning

Jeremy Wells

Instructors are well-experienced and can speak from tremendous amounts of real-world experience. They are also very passionate - not just about music and working in the industry, but they are passionate about teaching and getting the students the best learning experience possible. This makes a big difference in how successful the course is for the students… We were also able to get a lot of detailed and hands-on work - which was great!

Alan G

Garnish mix classes helped me the strengthen and expand my knowledge in mixing and mastering techniques immensely. With Grammy-winning engineers, what more could you hope for?!

Bernardo Passarinho

At last I have a clear perspective of how mixing and mastering works!

Andres Alzate

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

36 Hours

USA: $1499 + $100 Registration if booked 14 days before start or $1799 + $200 Registration

EU: €1299 + €100 Registration if booked 14 days before start or €1499 + €200 Registration

UK: £1099 + £100 Registration if booked 14 days before start or £1299 + £200 Registration

Use the ‘CONNECT’ button below to request schedule information for our classes. One of our placement experts will follow up within a business day. For one-to-one lessons, see Mixing & Mastering Private Instruction, and connect with a specialist on that page.