artistproMediaLearning Studio

Shaping Your Sound with Equalizers, Compressors, and Gates

Mike Lawson · artistproMedia

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Eight complete lessons with Street Life listening examples, artistpro plugin demonstrations, studio labs, and a course assessment.

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Course outline

  1. 1. Make a processing decision
  2. 2. Read an EQ curve
  3. 3. Create space without thinning the mix
  4. 4. Understand compression
  5. 5. Shape attack and release
  6. 6. Use gates and expanders musically
  7. 7. Control the detector
  8. 8. Build and evaluate a processing chain