Mixing Mentorship

Mix the way you hear it in your head

ADVANCED MIXING

COURSE BY ALEX SHULGA

"These recordings sound fantastic here - the bottom end and the vocals especially. It is a wonderful piece of work"

Matt Colton

mastering engineer

(Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, James Blake)

"These recordings sound fantastic here -
the bottom end and the vocals especially.
It is a wonderful piece of work"

Matt Colton

mastering engineer

(Coldplay, Thom Yorke, James Blake)

ABOUT ALEX

Alex Shulga is a mixing engineer & music producer based in Los Angeles, with 20 years of experience working at some of Europe's top studios. His work spans indie, soul, jazz, electronic, and contemporary world music — with credits including:

• Herbie Hancock
• Marcus Miller
• Dhafer Youssef
• Vinnie Colaiuta
• Esbjörn Svensson Trio
• Jamala
• Kalush Orchestra

COURSE OVERVIEW

8 weeks of advanced, in-depth video tutorials covering every stage of a professional mix — from studio setup and session fundamentals to release-ready masters — with hands-on home assignments after each module

Weekly live listening sessions with Alex Shulga — get direct, personalized feedback and recommendations on your work in real time

Exclusive access to a private sound community — new techniques, plugins, and tools shared regularly with active discussion on all things audio

Exclusive offers and free plugins — special deals and complimentary tools from our industry partners

8 Weeks

WEEK 1. Studio & session fundamentals

1) Studio room basics — how to improve your room yourself. Digital correction
2) Studio equipment & plugins — the minimum setup to get professional mixes
3) Preparing a project:
A) Session arrangement — effective workflow
B) Editing basics — drum re-triggering
C) Initial balance and panning
D) Mix bus — mixing into compression and saturation. Should I EQ from the start?

3. Analog vs digital vs digital-analog hybrid
A) Lecture on the evolution of sound engineering — what we can take from the old school world into a modern workflow
B) Analog treatment of individual tracks with the best world analog equipment without leaving your studio (online robotic studio gear services)
C) Plugin emulations vs real physical equipment — is analog a time saver and magical tool, or just a waste of money?

WEEK 2. Building the mix. Live drums and bass

1. Low end philosophy and techniques
2. Mixing bass and kick as the song's foundation:
EQ, compression, saturation, low end harmonic enhancers, gates and expanders
3. Mixing live drums
A) Phase correction
B) Low end filtering and resonance work
C) 3D sound architecture of a drum set
D) EQ'ing drums
E) Drum saturation
F) Creative reverbs and delays on drums

WEEK 3. Electronic drums and synths

1. Electronic drums:
A) EQ'ing electronic drums
B) Low end filtering and resonance control
C) Building weight and definition
D) Transient shaping — attack, punch and snap
E) Saturation on electronic drums
F) Creative reverbs and delays — space, atmosphere and movement
2. Mixing electronic bass and synths
A) Compression and EQ
B) Saturation
C) Modulation and width
D) Using short reverbs on bass — how and when

WEEK 4. Vocals

1. De-essing
2. Initial automation and macro dynamics
3. Working with resonances — dynamic EQ'ing
4. Technical and creative EQ'ing — vintage emulations and modern transparent tools
5. Dynamic control and colour — compression chains
6. Vocal saturation — from subtle technical to crazy creative chains
7. Modulation of vocals — creative approach to mixing vocals
8. Backing vocals

WEEK 5. Reverbs & delays. Automation.

1. Reverbs overview for different instruments and styles
2. Reverb techniques — creating 3D space in a stereo mix
3. Creating custom unique reverb stacks using filters, saturation and modulation on reverb aux tracks
4. Technical delays
5. Creative delays — emulations of vintage tape and tube echoes. Creating special effects with delays

2.1 Automation as a mixing tool
A) Volume rides
B) FX automation
C) Automating compression and saturation for dynamic texture
D) Macro dynamics

WEEK 6 — The world of colours: saturation, drive, distortion

1. Types of saturation
A) Tube saturation
B) Transformer saturation
C) Tape saturation
D) Digital clipping, bitcrushing and lo-fi textures
2. Multiband saturation
3. Distortion and drive
4. Master bus saturation
5. Analog saturation via online robotic services
6. Vintage compressor emulations as a saturation tool

WEEK 7 — Mixing harmonic instruments

1. Guitars: acoustic and electric
A) EQ'ing, compression & reampling DI guitars
B) Spring & chamber reverbs, tape echo

2. Piano
A) Dealing with the full frequency range of piano in a mix
B) EQ and compression — keeping it natural vs pushing it forward

3. Strings and brass
Mixing orchestral sections

4. Ethnic and world instruments. Integrating unusual timbres into a modern mix. Reverb and space choices for acoustic world instruments

WEEK 8

Practical real life mixing session - from start to finish
Mastering in a mixing facility. Referencing and translation

WHAT STUDENTS SAY

An awesome course!
What’s really cool is that your approach to mixing isn’t formulaic — it’s creative! And you’re a genuinely kind, pleasant person.

Overall, it’s not just a course — it’s art therapy! Thank you.

Suren Tomasian

music producer (Mama13, Ivan Dorn)

I’m very grateful to you for sharing your truly practical experience with me during our sessions. I felt a major breakthrough in my approach to mixing and sound overall. What I would’ve spent another year trying to figure out through endless YouTube videos, you explained simply and clearly.

For me, it was not only useful but also inspiring. Thanks to this knowledge, for the first time I felt that I can actually keep my sound under control and move toward a more professional result.

Honestly, it was worth much more than what I paid, and after our last session, I even felt a bit sad that we were done. It was a very valuable experience that gave me confidence and a fresh boost of motivation.

Vadym

JOIN THE COURSE

8 weeks of video tutorials, live sessions, community access and partner plugins.

This course comes with a 100% money-back guarantee if you feel it doesn’t meet your expectations.

$

300

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