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Ableton 12 Master Chain

18 min

Learn how to Master hpouse tracks in Ableton 12 with 100% Stock Plugins using Reid Stefan's updated 2025 Mymixlab Master Chain. This course covers all the setup steps from gain staging,eq,dynamics,saturation,clipping,limiting, and more! Download the final preset as an ADG file to easily drag and drop into any Ableton Project

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Ableton 12 Master chain
Reid Stefan

Ableton 12 Master Chain

18 min

Learn how to Master hpouse tracks in Ableton 12 with 100% Stock Plugins using Reid Stefan's updated 2025 Mymixlab Master Chain. This course covers all the setup steps from gain staging,eq,dynamics,saturation,clipping,limiting, and more! Download the final preset as an ADG file to easily drag and drop into any Ableton Project

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Reid Stefan

Reid Stefan

The Realest Puppet In The Game is one of the top educators of modern music making with production, songwriting, mixing, and engineering credits including Suicide Boyz, Travis Barker, Steve Aoki, Alan Walker, KSHMR, & more! Reid Stefan tutorials are amongst the most popular on YouTube and Instagram and now you can enjoy full length Reid Stefan mixing videos exclusively on MyMixLab

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