This course focuses on using a specific technique to develop a solid groove between piano and bass. It explores how to create a tight, rhythmic connection between these two elements, emphasizing the interplay of their roles in rhythm and harmony helping to establish a dynamic, cohesive musical foundation that drives the groove forward.

If Pro Tools is your DAW of choice, this is your beginner’s guide to creating your first Template! Reid Stefan Realest Puppet in the game shows you how to build a mixing template from scratch using Pro Tools 2021. You’ll learn the workflow and signal flow for creating audio channels, mix groups, sends, returns, busses, and your master output.

Discover an easy way to make your vocals and synths sit perfectly together in the mix! In this course, you’ll learn how to use Mid-Side EQ and sidechain techniques to create space, add clarity, and make everything sound smooth and balanced without losing energy or vibe.

Learn how to restore lost punch, clarity, and depth in your mixes by regaining dynamics and separation from an over-compressed master using Ozone 12. This course walks you through practical techniques and tools to breathe life back into flattened tracks, improve transient detail, and rebuild musical balance for a more open sounding master.

In this course, you’ll learn how to enhance the impact and character of your mix using parallel saturation. Step by step, you’ll see how to blend clean and saturated signals to add warmth, energy, and vibe without losing clarity or dynamics.

This course explores the creative, technical, and professional differences between mixing your own music and working as a mix engineer for other artists. You'll learn how personal vision shapes self-mixing, versus how communication, objectivity, and client expectations play key roles when mixing for others. Topics include workflow, decision-making and feedback handling.

In today’s episode, Luca Pretolesi touches on the approach of using a reference track during mastering. By using another track as a guideline, you can compare elements like dynamics, tonal, balance, and loudness to build and test your own master with more precision. Tap in to see how Luca approaches this essential technique!

How to mix low end in your tracks like Luca Pretolesi. Learn tips and tricks for bass clarity and balance in your mix using EQ, Saturation, Dynamic shaping, and more. Create punch and movement in the low frequencies of any track using these highly sought after techniques from an 11x Grammy Nominated Engineer

If Logic Pro X is your DAW of choice, this is your new Master Chain. Reid Stefan Realest Puppet in the game shows you how to build a mastering chain from scratch using Logic Pro X. You’ll learn the basics of EQ, Multiband Compression, Saturation, Clipping, Limiting, and more!

In this week’s all new course, Reid Stefan teaches his complete vocal chain and workflow for recording vocals like a pro. This tutorial covers everything from the mic, to hardware processing, into the Apollo interface and Console app where Reid creates a headphone mix for any vocalist. This course also covers the correct levels for recording vocals with and without hardware in between your microphone and interface. After recording vocals Reid uses LUFS metering plugins to check the levels of vocals against other mix groups such as Drums, synths, and mastering.