Mixing Cinematic Music | Orchestral Mixing Course

In the first Section Joël goes over all the key concepts of mixing cinematic music. These lessons will make sure you understand all the fundamental mixing principles and don't just follow some rules.

From tweaking reverbs to fine tuning your panning to perfecting the tonal balance of your tracks, everything is covered.

This series of videos is designed to be highly applicable and straight to the point. EQ, reverbs or panning won't have secrets for you anymore. No matter how advanced you are, you will learn something new from this part of the course. Basic topics are covered, like routing or balance, but we also go in depth with advanced reverb techniques or parallel compression tricks, for example.

The second set of videos is called ‘’how to EQ’’ where Joël breaks down all the main orchestral instruments and how to EQ them.

How many times have you been sitting in front of your production asking yourself: „how did the mixing engineer EQ this instrument again“?

To help you out with speeding up your workflow, we built this section as sort of an encyclopedia for the students to come back to and check how certain instruments are usually processed.

This series of videos is useful for orchestral instruments, as there often are common problem areas unique to each orchestral instrument, even between two different libraries from different manufacturers.

The third section is all about sound design. Since sound design elements like braams, risers, downers, wooshes, hits, synth elements, signature sounds, pads, atmospheres and so on are a big part of modern cinematic music, Joël dedicates a whole section on how to process them to make them sound polished and impactful at the same time.

He teaches you how to enhance synths as well as custom sound design elements made by Simon Haglund during his course „Sound Design for Media Composers“.

The fourth section, and arguably the most important, is the mix deconstructions. In order to put everything that was previously learnt into practice, Joël mixes various styles of tracks provided by industry professionals such as Adam Lukas, Christoph Allerstorfer, Mattia Chiappa, Simon Haglund, Luke Olney, Julien Casel and Layal Watfeh. In order to prepare students for as many situations as possible we made sure to include a variety of different styles as mix deconstructions.