If you mix hip-hop and rap music you're in for a fun treat today.

Even if you don't explicitly work in this genre, but still use beats, 808s, and software synths in your mixes, you're going to get a lot out of this.

There have been a lot of new subscribers lately who work in the hip-hop genre so I thought I'd make something special for them. It's a brand-new step by step mixing hip-hop series where you can follow along as I mix a song from scratch.

In the first video we talk about:

• Breaking down and simplifying the mix into its production elements
• General rough balancing using the 1 dB rule
• Adding mix bus processing to get a good rough mix immediately

The song I'm working on is called "Get It" by Anthony Barber and be forewarned: the hook really sticks in your head. 

Whenever I work on this song I end up rapping this to myself under my breath around the house the whole day afterward. It's not a good look for me.

Also....I got some new duds...check it!

There's much more to come as this is just the first of ten videos in this free hip-hop mixing course so make sure you subscribe to the Youtube channel to be notified whenever there's a new episode.

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"I use this for myself and with students in the Music Technology A Level and Music Practitioners RSL (like a L3 BTEC) courses I teach. I've found it to be VERY readable, accurate, easy to follow and apply and my students find it really useful. It is not overly long but is very practical and Bjorgvin clearly knows his stuff. Highly recommended for live and studio mixing of audio on both professional and academic levels." -Dan

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