Lynda.com – Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Mixing (TUTORIAL)

By | January 9, 2026

 

Release Year: 2013
Producer: Lynda.com
Producer’s Website: www.lynda.com/Pro-Tools-tutorials/Music-Production-Secrets-Larry-Crane-Mixing/121905-2.html
Author: Larry Crane
Duration: 01:51:00
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English

  • 1.17 GB

Description: Pull more life and energy out of your existing tracks and create great final mixes. Producer and founder of Tape Op magazine, Larry Crane, is back with a new course. In his recording studio in Portland, Oregon, Larry will demonstrate the mixing techniques he uses to produce music for renowned artists She & Him, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Jenny Lewis, The Go-Betweens, and Sleater-Kinney.
Pull more life and energy out of your existing tracks and create great final mixes. Producer and Tape Op magazine founder Larry Crane is back at Jackpot! Recording Studios in Portland, Oregon, to demonstrate mixing techniques that he uses when producing music for well-known musicians She & Him, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Jenny Lewis, The Go-Betweens, and Sleater-Kinney. First, learn how to set up a satisfying and efficient place to listen and mix, and get familiar with working with frequencies. Then Larry shares some of his mixing secrets, such as using compression to change drum sounds, using parallel drum buss compression, and cutting frequencies to clean up a mix. In the second half of the course, he demonstrates his sound processing secrets, like how to best use tape delay on vocals, how to create backwards reverb, and how to choose the right distortion on a bass guitar.

Topics include:
Understanding the mix room acoustics
Cutting frequencies
Prepping vocals
Drum mixing
Gating audio for noise elimination or for creative purposes
Creating and using backwards reverb in a DAW
Re-amping guitars, bass, vocals, and more

Content :
0. Introduction 1m 12s
Welcome 1m 12s
1. Mixing Secrets 49m 6s
Mix room acoustics 3m 24s
Mixing with multiple speakers 6m 13s
Cutting frequencies 6m 46s
Prepping vocal takes for mixing 6m 50s
Parallel drum bus compression 6m 49s
Preparing the drum tracks for mixing 8m 19s
Drum mixing 10m 45s
2. Sound Processing Secrets 1h 0m
Gating audio for noise elimination 8m 36s
Gating audio for creative and musical purposes 5m 5s
Using analog tape delay for vocals 9m 32s
Creating and using backwards reverb in a DAW 5m 54s
Why compress? 7m 4s
Re-amping guitars 4m 30s
Re-amping bass 4m 57s
Re-amping drums 5m 46s
Re-amping vocals 3m 21s
Re-amping a Leslie speaker cabinet 5m 49s
3. Conclusion 39s
What’s next? 39s

Example files: none
Video format: MOV
Video: AVC, 960×540, 16:9, 23.976 fps, 1337 kbps
Audio: AAC, 48.0 kHz, ~160 kbps, 2 channels


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