This excellent course from Groove 3 helps demystify room acoustics, and offers practical tips to improve your mixing environment. There’s no getting around the fact that trying to mix in a poorly treated room will make decision making much harder than it needs to be. Best acoustics: Home Studio Know-How: The Room & Acoustics Zangar has a clear presentation style, with concise use of examples, making this an essential tutorial for beginners and pros alike.” We consider ourselves to be Logic veterans and even on chapters covering topics as simple as creating and deleting control points, we still learnt several highly useful tips and keyboard shortcuts. We said: “Topics covered include automation settings, creating and editing points and curves, working on multiple tracks at once, automation record modes, region automation, MIDI draw and much more. Aside from a few omissions, Logic has long had some of the most extensive automation tools available, and this course from Groove 3 goes deeper than deep to explain each and every detail across 28 chapters. It’s not big and it’s not sexy, but mastering automation is an essential skill to learn if you want to craft fluid mixes that ebb and swell dynamically along with the music.

Best automation: Logic Pro X Automation Explained

It’s all very well getting caught up in buying the latest plug-ins and outboard, but it’s no use if you don’t know how to use them! Here are six of the best mixing tutorials and online courses that you need to know about.

Mixpad tutorial