Not at all. You can follow along using whatever DAW you're most comfortable with. In addition, I will show you how to make your mixes sound louder with stock plug-ins and premium plug-ins so you can use whatever plug-ins you have in your DAW to master your mixes.

Actually, that’s a good thing because I am teaching you everything I’ve learned from mastering music in my home studio so that you can do the same in yours, even if you don’t have fancy acoustic treatment or a professionally tuned room

This is for anyone who wants to add that extra 10% polish to make their mixes sound like professional records.

You can use the methods inside Master Your Mixes on any genre of music. My students work in every style of music, from rock, country, and folk to EDM, hip-hop, and pop.

At the end of this course, you'll have all the knowledge you need to create loud and powerful records, no matter what genre you're working in.

I have done recordings with acts such as WALK THE MOON, Sheryl Crow, ALT-J, Old Crow Medicine Show, Andrew Bird, Monsieur Periné, Caroline Rose and Jade Bird to name a few. Oh, and Björk's son...randomly enough. But that's a story for another day.

However, my students' success is the most important thing to me. Thousands of home studio musicians and engineers have learned to confidently finish their mixes through my Audio Issues education in the last 10 years. Listening to their great-sounding music, and knowing that I taught them how to do it themselves, is all the credit I need.

No. That's why it's so important that you learn how to master your mixes. If you want your mixes to compete, they have to sound mastered.

As soon as you sign up you'll get access to the full Master Your Mixes area that you can take from your computer or your smartphone. 

The videos inside Master Your Mixes are short and to the point, so it'll take no time at all to learn everything you need to know to make your mixes loud, powerful, and punchy.

Once you follow the process, you'll have all the knowledge necessary to create powerful masters - and lifetime access to the materials to refresh your knowledge whenever you need.

You can certainly search for videos teaching you generic advice on mastering, but no video will tie it together like this to show you how to use the correct processing on the master bus in such a way that you learn how to take your finished mix and transform it into a loud and powerful record. Instead, you'll end up wading through poorly explained techniques and watching a bunch of ads.

Online robot mastering services won't listen to your music the same way a human being does. They don't take your genre, feel, or emotion into account because...well they're robots. At that point, you're only left with the option of choosing Loud, Louder, or LOUDEST! which often ends up overcompressing your mixes and sometimes even distorting your low-end.

If you're serious about mixing, mastering, and releasing your songs, you're better off learning how to do it yourself so you have complete quality control over the entire process. Once you master your mixes, you'll be able to carefully tweak the low-end frequency response, glue the bottom end together, and increase overall loudness without accidental distortion.

Don't discount the power of knowing how to master your mixes because every time you send a mix over to a client or to your bandmates they'll want your mix to sound like a mastered record. There's simply no getting around that. If your mixes are quiet, they'll think your skills are lacking.

Every mixing engineer should know how to master their mixes, even if they prefer to send their songs to a mastering engineer because who knows if you ever end up mastering other people's mixes?

Wouldn't you like to know the process of taking an unmastered mix and transforming it into a professionally mastered record? That's what Master Your Mixes will teach you.