Explore pureMix Assignment

Overview

pureMix Pro offers a wide variety of incredible resources for learning about all things audio. With courses and tutorials taught by some of the industry's leading songwriters, producers, and engineers, your subscription provides you the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look into the process, tools, and techniques, utilized by some of the best in the field.

For this assignment we would like you to explore and become familiar with all that pureMix Pro has to offer.

Instructions

1. Go to pureMix.net and login to your pureMix Pro account
2. Click around and explore everything pureMix has to offer
   • This can be any video tutorials, upcoming contests, plugins and apps included FREE with the subscription, etc.
3. In the discussion, provide a description of the content you found with a summary of your thoughts
   • Are you participating in a contest?
   • Have you downloaded, installed, and tested out one of the plugins?
   • Did a specific video tutorial help you understand a particular concept?
4. The Minimum word count for this discussion is 100 words
5. Paste a link to the content you discussed

52A Mixing and Mastering 1

Devin

3: Yes I signed up for the giveaway and did all of the steps to get 5 entries, and I haven't downloaded the plugins because I'm not a huge fan of something that if I cancel the subscription they stop working.

One app I did try was the frequency response test which I did pretty okay at, the first lower octave test I got a 7/10, the midrange I got a 10/10, and the highs I got an 8/10, though some were a but hard to distinguish. I remember that "ooeeaa" thing when listening to white noise and boosting a certain range so that helped a lot too.

Here is the test: https://www.puremix.net/ear-training.html

Diego

The section I was mainly looking through was just the tutorial section, there's a large variety of different content that I found very interesting, and honestly it wasn't all necessarily tutorials, for example, I watched a tour of the blackbird studio which was super cool, and a very interstingly/intricately designed studio. (Link for the Blackbird studio tour Links to an external site.) But I did also see some actual tutorials/guides, for example, Start to Finish with Snark Puppy and Nic Hard was one that I watched for a little bit, it was only a 30 minute video but it had a lot of insight into stereo mixing and I guess just different peoples styles.

https://www.puremix.net/video/start-to-finish-nic-hard-mixing-snarky-puppy-coney-bear.html

Christopher

After browsing through the menus and categories of the Puremix site, I am glad that I was able to discover content beyond the video tutorials, plug-in perks, and other services (Mixup) that initially came with my subscription.

Probably my most interesting find so far was the Mix Analysis section found under the Features menu. As the name implies, this section includes links to various hit recordings, each giving an in-depth analysis of the mixing and other details leading to the creation of the hit songs. I was drawn and found myself spending some time reading a few of the somewhat long articles about the recording backgrounds behind such hits, like Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature,” Earth Wind & Fire’s “Let’s Groove” and Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” Links to an external site.. Reading some exclusive behind-the-scenes analysis of the creation of these hit songs was a real treat and really broadened my mixing & production horizons even further. Eventually I’ll read the analysis of all 25 tracks and hope that more new insight stories on other songs will appear in the future.

Puremix: Mix Check - Mix Analysis