Mix & Mastering: Diplo "On My Mind"
3x Grammy Mixing & Mastering Legend Luca Pretolesi shares his highly sought after mixing techniques from Diplo "On My Mind" ft. Sidepiece which recently became the top house track across Spotify, clubs, and radio playlists worldwide. Luca Pretolesi gives an in-depth look into his personal template and workflow in five part series processing drums, bass, synths, and vocals separately before his final master chain. This course explains the "in the box" plugin workflow for you to apply to your mixes as well as a complete overview of Luca's hybrid and analog mixing approach.
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Mix & Mastering: Diplo "On My Mind"
3x Grammy Mixing & Mastering Legend Luca Pretolesi shares his highly sought after mixing techniques from Diplo "On My Mind" ft. Sidepiece which recently became the top house track across Spotify, clubs, and radio playlists worldwide. Luca Pretolesi gives an in-depth look into his personal template and workflow in five part series processing drums, bass, synths, and vocals separately before his final master chain. This course explains the "in the box" plugin workflow for you to apply to your mixes as well as a complete overview of Luca's hybrid and analog mixing approach.
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Luca Pretolesi
Luca Pretolesi is a world-renowned mixing and mastering engineer with a wealth of professional experience and a reputation as one of the best in the industry. With multiple Grammy nominations and wins, as well as Platinum, Diamond, Billboard, and Golden Melody awards, he has mixed and mastered some of the most streamed songs of all time. He is also the founder and creator of Studio DMI, a state-of-the-art facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. Luca has worked with top artists such as Drake, Skrillex, Diplo, Chiquis, Major Lazer, Alan Walker, Dillon Francis, David Guetta, J Balvin, and many more. Luca’s Grammy nominations include Chiquis “Abeja Reina” for Best Regional Mexican Music Album, Diplo “Diplo” for Best Dance/Electronic Album, Diplo & Miguel “Don’t Forget My Love” for Best Dance/Electronic Single, J Balvin & Willy William’s “Mi Gente” for Record of the Year, Steve Aoki’s “Wonderland” for Best Dance Album, Snoop Lion’s “Reincarnation” for Best Reggae Album.
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Studio I Tour
Take a tour of Luca Pretolesi’s personal mixing and mastering console in Studio I at Studio DMI Las Vegas. Learn about how he mixes and masters artists like Drake, Diplo, Major Lazer, Skrillex, and more in this complete guide to analog gear, signal flow, and hybrid setup techniques. This exclusive look into his workspace will help you better understand the tools used to mix and master 11x Grammy Nominated hit songs and more.
How To Mix Louder
3x Grammy Mixing & Mastering Legend Luca Pretolesi shares his highly sought after techniques for loud mixes. Learn how to balance your tone and levels for optimal loudness before your master chain. Watch the 20+ minute tutorial and download Luca’s FabFilter Limiter and EQ presets to finish your mix!
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Loud Master For Spotify
Learn how to master your tracks loud for Spotify. 3x Grammy Mixing & Mastering Legend Luca Pretolesi explains his workflow for mastering and loudness for Spotify and other online music streaming platforms. This tutorial covers techniques for EQ. Clipping, and more. Learn how to perfectly analyze, compare, and level your tracks for their final online delivery format.
Vocal Sidechain
In this course, 3x Grammy Mixing & Mastering Legend Luca Pretolesi teaches you how to use Sidechain Compression to mix vocals. He shares 3 techniques to sidechain lead vocals, background vocals, and synths. Use your Kick or vocal as a sidechain input in this creative mixing course inside the session for Promises by Diplo
How To Start A Mix
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House Legend Jon Kong shares his personal workflow for mixing techno drums in Logic Pro. This tutorial covers which elements drum to approach first, how to sculpt a perfect kick, multiband transient shaping, bringing each element to life using creative compression, processing techniques with various EQs, when and how to apply analog and mid/side saturation, and creative tremolo techniques to add movement to your high end information. Additionally, Jon shares his personal mixing presets from this course, and they are available below for download.
Diamond Lift 4
3x Grammy Mixing & Mastering Legend Luca Pretolesi shares his brand new update to Diamond Lift 4, by Acoustic Audio and Studio DMI. This plugin tutorial is a first look at how to use Diamond Lift 4 to achieve a dynamic mix and master. Luca will demonstrate his personal workflow and how he approaches mixing drums and bass, and mastering using Diamond Lift 4.
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Studio Tour
3x Grammy Mixing & Mastering Legend Luca Pretolesi gives you a tour of Studio DMI where he mixes and masters hit song and albums across Dance, Pop, and Hip Hip music. Take a complete walkthrough of his facilities for Recording, production, mixing, mastering, and Dolby Atmos Surround Sound. Studio DMI is in Las Vegas Nevada and is home to both Luca Pretolesi and his assistant engineer Robert Guzman. This studio provides all services from Stem Mixing, Stereo Master, Surround Sound Mixing, and more!