Course Details for online classes

Now in our 11th year!

Dates - Please see the calendar here

About The Course

Covid 19 forever changed the way everyone does business, except mastering engineers really. Ok we might be having a few less clients sitting in on sessions, but that was something of a novelty in recent years. However, our courses have run physically for the past decade and Russ & Paul have made some great friends from previous students over that time.

We now realise that post-pandemic people are used to working remotely, so we are responding to the change and we now offer our Learn Mastering course online as a weekend event.

The cost for the weekend will be £150 and you'll need to be free for the full weekend (a bit of mastering to do on Saturday evening!). You'll also need some basic equipment to make this happen:

• a digital audio workstation of choice (if you've not got one, please download www.reaper.fm))

• a decent pair of headphones. Please contact us for advice on this.

• a solid internet connection

• a webcam for communication

• a microphone for communication

• some unmastered music (not essential)

Music

Yes - bring your own music and we'll look to master some of it with you. This is a great way to see how to review your mixing and your mastering when you go home. If we, for whatever, don't get time. Russ and Paul, after the course, will happily master one track using Reaper/Ozone later to share with you to analyse what we've done and why.

We have a catalogue of pre-mastered music you can use. Our clients and previous students have been kind and permitted us to use this material.

The Running Order (tbc)

The following is a rough outline of what we'll cover. More details will be given when we meet.

• Welcome

• History & context of mastering

• Listening frameworks for analysis (with set examples)

• Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) discussion: WaveLab, Pyramix, ProTools, Reaper and any other DAW

• Ozone introduction

• Tools of the trade (compression/limiting/EQ/other tools!)

• Mastering approaches and destination discussion

• Pyramix demonstration & let's begin mastering together

  • transferring those approaches to other DAWs

• Discussion about results

• Mastering task and workshop

• Plenary discussion to close

Mentoring

After the weekend, students like to continue with their learning. Paul and Russ are both available on an hourly basis. If you wish to continue by Mentoring, please mention this to us and we can outline the costs. We tend to do these over fortnightly meetings with tasks in-between. Contact us for more details.