Our In the Studio course fee includes the cost of Ableton Live 11 Suite EDU license which gives the student full access to all Ableton Live Instruments, Audio & Midi effects, Max for Live and Premium sample banks which can be downloaded from Ableton’s website.
Get free and unlimited access for a year to more than 30 recorded courses in multiple languages covering more than 100+ hrs of training in Western and Bollywood Music Production, Mixing & Mastering, Audio Engineering & Music business. Get free access to our Ear Training games which will save you hrs of guesswork with EQs, Compression, music theory, and much more. Train your ears to identify chords, intervals, panning, boosts and cuts, and a lot more with over 10 games and 100s of examples.
On joining the course, students get free and complete access to customised ready to use Ableton Racks, Presets & Completed Ableton Templates for their projects & references. This helps them save time and funds and also elevate their sounds to a professional quality.
Zoom sessions are recorded and also made available to all the students for 1 year, at no extra cost. Students are also provided access to additional self-paced courses for free. (All Access Pass)
Learn how to achieve the right balance between the core elements of your mix and elevate the overall quality of your track which translates well across different platforms. This module covers how audio effects such as EQs, Compressors, Limiters, Saturators, Reverb and Delay are used in different ways during mixing and mastering to achieve more depth, clarity, fullness, width and loudness, making your track commercially ready. Learn how to apply the most famous methods used by artists and sound engineers around the world.
Learning to understand mixing using Session Arrangement, Buses, Auxes and Grouping for Miixng and use of templates. Understanding the interrelation of the tracks to start with fader balance as a first step towards mixing
Understanding the gain staging with and without the plugins in the mix chain. Understanding analog vs digital gain staging and exploring the terms like RMS, Peak and LUFS. Floating Point and non Floating point gaain staging, dynamic range, dBFS and soft clipping
Philosophies of why to compress ? Explaining multiple parameters for compressors like threshold, knee, ratio etc. and exploring different types of compressors like VCA, Opto, FET, Tube etc.
Exploring the world of parallel and through compression and sidechain.Understanding upward and downward compression with genre specific demonstration and usage. Understabding Glue compression
Understanding the parameters of noise gate, attenuation with hystersis and cleanup for mic bleed within the tracks. Understanding Attack and Release along with the Hold parameters to gate tracks. Using gates for Reverb and Delay to create multi timbral layers for mix
Understanding Frequency based compression and using de-essers to tame the esses in the vocal tracks . Using the multiband compression to manipulate the buss compression for Rhytyhm, Vocals and backing vocals etc. Understanding Limiters and its parameters like threshold and ceiling along with upward limiting and maximising
Understanding the fundamentals of EQ in additive and subtractive approach. Understanding the parametric EQ with in-built EQ and Console EQ. Understanding EQing techniques with waves and slate digital EQ
Understanding Semi Parametric EQ, Quasi parametric EQ and emulations based on Neve, SSL, API and Pultec
Understanding the saturation and distorion using Ableton Saturators, Understanding soft clipping and clipping and analog warmth using emulation plugins like VTR tapes, Vinyl distortion and tube saturation. Exploring the need for saturation in a mix.
Exploring the varirty of tape emulations by waves and slate digital to utilise them as a blend in tracks for creating analog like warmth and saturation. Understanding aliasing filters and measurements for floating point and how a plugin can change the harmonic structure of a track
Understanding Reverb and its parametere. Reverb Types like convultation and algorythmic. Parameters of a reverb liike Decay, Pre-Delay, Damping etc. Exploring impulse response and calculation for IR using Waves IR. Understanding spatial treatment methods using reverbs and types of reverbs suitable for a song eg. Plate, Spring, Hall etc.
Time Basd effects processing with delay, Delay Time mpping and automtion. Typs of delay like Tape Delays, Mono Delays, Stereo Delays , Ping Pong etc.
Understanding the need for Chorus, Phaser, Flanger and modulations. Exploring the basics. of these effects to be used in a song for creative effeccts on vocals and synths to make harmonically rich content
Explorng different philosophies in Mixing : London, New York and Nashiville to understnd the mixing approach by mix engineers and genre based mixing for tracks. Fixing issues like resonance and glue / Buss compression in detail to demonstrate mixing approaches
Understanding replacement layering, Sample layering to enhnce the mix and approach to use imager, spectrum analyser, rectify phasing issues with linear phase and phase invert, exploring the noise reduction and noise shaping
Understanding the automation and balancong using automating volume, Pan and understanding the 3dB Pan Law. Automation mapping on controllers and fader ports, drawing automation vs automation using controllers etc.
Gain Matching, Buss processing and Additive EQ to understand tight and punchy EDM mixes, exploring the details of parallel buss processing and routing matrix to add the flexibilty and. punch to mixes
Exploring VU, LUFS, LKFS, dBFS, dBV, dBu, durrough metering. Callibarations of meter for mixing at different levels, understanding Izotop insight and spectral analyser. Understanding co-relation metering and exploring the concept of “loudness” vs ” Levels”. Understanding dBFS Vs dB SPL
Understanding the need for Mastering and why we have master songs based on mix. Mastering Basics : Mastering Plugins, Mastering philosophies and utlising the loudness concpets of modern day masters
Difference between mastering for CD’, Tapes and Vinyls vs modern day mastering for streaming purposes. Exploring izotope Ozone for mastering : Imager, Exciter, Maximiser, Vintage Cmpressors and EQ
Understanding the need for Dither and Nosie shaping Post Mix. Understanding the Mastering proxess for conversion of sample rates for files, Stems Mastering vs Stereo Master using one track, Aliasing filters and EQ Shelving as a part of mastering process,
Hybrid EQ, Digital EQ and Maag EQ. Using Brainworks Mastering Chain to understand the buss procesing. Elyssia Bus conditioners and Mastering rack ertc.
Exploring the fab filters plugins like Pro EQ, MB, Compressors etc. Understanding the effects like volcano and Saturn for spatial treatment and masteering process and also for buss processing
Virtual Mix Racks, FG digital Mastering Compressor, Opto Compressors and Revival for master processing, Tape emulations by slate digital, Mastering EQ by Eliosis and Kilohearts-Series pugin bundle eg. Multipass, Hass effect , Formant EQ etc. Understanding the different Plugin emulations of companies like SSL, Neve, API etc.
A student who aspires to become a mix engineer, associate audio engineer, or who wishes to enhance the quality of music production and learn the technical as well as creative aspects of mixing and mastering their songs so as to make it ready to release.
1. Understanding of Ableton Live basics and working principles
2. Understanding aspects of ableton routing , MIDI and Audio workflow along with Ableton racks, instruments, effects etc
3. There is no minimum age requirement
1.Student has to submit the proof of knowledge for Ableton Live training if he/she has taken training elsewhere prior to apply for this course
2. A thorough screening test will be conducted to validate the submitted document of DAW training
3. Upgrade is feasible when the person has completed the Ableton Basic ( 1 Month ) and Ableton Advanced ( 1 Month ) and Songwriting and Sound Design Course ( 2 months ) is completed from LSA
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Music Production to Music Marketing, we have it all covered in detail in our offline courses conducted in Mumbai.
The course is conducted at our academy in Chembur, Mumbai.The student receives a confirmation email about the course enrolment as soon as we successfully receive the fees.
Every batch consist of maximum 15 students. To attend the sessions, students are requested to carry their laptop to take important notes during the sessions.
Once all the modules are successfully completed, the students keep in touch for continuous feedback on their work from our faculty.
Once students have tracks ready for audience consumption, we offer free promotions across all LSA social media platforms.
Lost stories are a name synonymous to Dance Music in India and South Asia. Ranked #52 on Dj mag 2016 and labelled the “Scene Starters” by DJ Mag, Rishab and Prayag began their journey in dance music in 2008 earlier producing Trance and Progressive House and garnering support from heavyweights like Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, BT, Markus Schulz etc. They then evolved their sound with their debut album – Music for the # Generation (Universal Music) in 2012 which was the no 3 Album on Top 100 Dance Albums iTunes Charts.
Ever since, they’ve had 3 #1 singles on iTunes and remixed the likes of One Republic, Afrojack, Alan Walker with releases on Universal Music, Interscope Records, Sony Music and Spinnin’ Records.
Lost Stories are the biggest Dance Music exports with Performances at Tomorrowland (2015-2019), Global Citizen Festival, Mysteryland, New Horizons Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival, Sunburn, VH1 Supersonic etc.
They’ve done extensive club and local festivals tours in India, UAE, China, Europe, Mexico and multiple South Asian countries.
Lost Stories Academy, an initiative by Lost Stories has been a pioneer in electronic music education since 2015. Lost Stories are India’s most renowned export from India to the world in the field of electronic music production. From representating India at world’s largest festival, Tomorrowland for five times to working with world renowned artists such as KSHMR, Marshmello, U2, One Republic, Alan Walker, etc. They have steadily raised India’s flag on world stages for over a decade.
Rs. 75,000
Live offline classes or “In the Studio” courses are in-person classes or group sessions conducted by our experienced faculty team at our academy in Mumbai. All offline live classes include Ableton Live Suite EDU license, Free All Access Pass and other benefits. Complete details about the course modules and benefits are listed on the respective course pages.
Lost Stories Academy is located in Chembur, Mumbai where offline or “In the Studio” courses are conducted.
In the studio classes have a limit of 15 students per batch for practical lectures.
We offer 2 modes of payment. If you want to pay online in order to confirm your seat, a non-refundable advance payment of 100% is payable via secured online payment gateway on our website. If you want to pay via cheque/bank transfer to confirm your seat, a non-refundable advance payment of1st instalment or 50% of the course fee is payable through cheque/bank transfer. The student receives a confirmation email about the course enrolment as soon as we successfully receive the transfer. The student is then added to a whatsapp group where further details about the batch commencement is communicated. In case of cheque/bank transfer, the pending 50% fee or the remaining instalments are payable within 2 months of the course commencement. Complete details about the instalments is listed on the respective course pages.
In case of some students failing to clear the pending fees, their access to all the course benefits is revoked. Furthermore, they will not be allowed to attend the remaining sessions.
Students are requested to carry their laptop to take important notes during the sessions and a studio quality headphone to practise exercises related to music production. Students can take advantage of in-person feedback (unlimited) from our experienced faculty whenever they have new demos ready.
Students can avail EMI or Pay Later options on our online payment gateways (Razorpay or PayTM) as per the payment gateways’ Terms & Conditions or get in touch with our representative for offline partners.In case, if students wish to pay via cheque/bank transfer, we offer two to three instalments, depending on the course. A non-refundable advance payment of 50% or one instalment is payable via bank transfer in order to confirm the seat. The student receives a confirmation email about the course enrolment as soon as we successfully receive the transfer.
We do not offer demo sessions. We suggest students to get in touch with our offline and online course Alumni or go through testimonials on our website, talk to our representative in case of any doubts and to get an idea about the quality of education we provide, before enrolment.
In case you miss a session, you can go through the recorded live session video (screen recording) which is made available to the students in the membership area on our website on the same day of the live offline session. We try to also accommodate you in the next batch for the topic you have missed, subject to seat availability in that batch.
In the studio sessions are conducted using the latest Ableton Live Suite version.
Students should have a laptop and a studio quality headphone in order to make the most out of this course. Knowing how to play an instrument also helps in understanding music theory better but it is not a pre-requisite as we teach music theory from scratch in the studio.
We offer a very limited number of enrolments to the GOLD course every year. In order to enrol in the GOLD course, its mandatory to successfully complete Music PRODIGY course first. Post the completion of the PRODIGY course and after thorough assessment, a qualifying student is given an option to upgrade to the remaining modules of the GOLD course and its benefits by paying the fee difference. The additional modules covered are The Next Big DJ (1 month) & Audio & Video Post-Production (1 month). Some of the GOLD course benefits include Photoshoot, social media assets and demo drop with a record label.
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