Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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🎚️ The Reverse Engineer: mastering.com
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Chapters

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:23 Valence vs arousal
00:02:45 How do we translate this to mixing tools?
00:03:24 EQ
00:05:01 Compression
00:08:16 Mixing with and without emotion
00:09:23 EQ cont...
00:10:16 Spatial FX
00:11:45 Saturation
00:12:19 Compression cont...
00:13:02 Volume balance
00:13:38 Depth
00:14:30 Dark vs bright
00:15:59 Free Cheatsheeet
00:16:09 Technical vs emotional
00:20:28 Mixing workflow
00:23:54 Demo 1
00:39:59 Demo 2
00:49:28 Demo 3
01:00:44 Outro