Music Production

Mindset, Tools and a Repeatable Workflow

Part One covers mindset and fundamentals before touching a real mix: what mixing is actually for, the tools every engineer reaches for, Solo’s own repeatable workflow, and the mental habits that get you through the moments a mix isn’t coming together.

Nothing here touches a fader yet. It builds the thinking that makes every later module make sense.

Welcome & Introduction to Solo

Module One: What Mixing Actually Means, and Why It Should Sound “Expensive”

Module Two: Studio vs Live, the Two Career Paths Inside Mix Engineering

Module Three: The Three Tools Every Mix Engineer Reaches For First

Module Four: Solo’s Own Four-Step Mixing Workflow, From Prep to Polish

Module Five: Using a Reference Track to Know When Your Mix Is On Track

Module Six: The Mental Habits That Get You Through Every Mixing Wall

Part One Workbook & Outcomes

Part One: Origins & Foundations

Monitor Placement and Room Treatment

Before the plugins, the room. Part Two covers the physical setup that determines whether you can actually trust what you’re hearing: monitor placement and basic room treatment, both genuinely achievable at home.

Get this part right and every decision in Part Three becomes more reliable.

Environment Introduction

Module Seven: The Exact Monitor Placement Setup for an Accurate Stereo Image

Module Eight: Treating Your Room, From Bass Traps to Curtains

Part Two Workbook & OutcomesUtilise this workbook to reflect on each module’s content and how it relates to what you are currently doing and / or look

Part Two: Building Your Mixing Environment

A Full Session, First Import to Pre-Master

Part Three is the full hands-on session: a real multi-stem mix built from first import through to a genuine pre-master chain, with Solo’s actual settings and numbers throughout, closing with the one rule that overrides every guideline in the course.

This is Solo’s most hands-on, most personal advice in the course.


Module Nine: Setting Up a Real Session, Importing Stems and Locking the Tempo

Module Ten: Organising Dozens of Stems Into a Clean, Band-Shaped Session

Module Eleven: Carving Space With EQ So Every Instrument Has Room to Breathe

Module Twelve: Resetting Levels and Rebuilding a Mix Around the Vocal

Module Thirteen: A Real Sidechain Trick for Ducking Vocal Chops Automatically

Module Fourteen: Using Room Size to Give a Vocal Depth, Width or Intimacy

Module Fifteen: Adding Movement and a Three-Dimensional Feel With Panning Automation

Module Sixteen: A Single Delay Send That Adds Rhythm and Width Without Clutter

Module Seventeen: Solo’s Quick Pre-Master Chain, Before a Mix Ever Leaves the Session

PDF Workbook & Outcomes

Part Three: Making Space in the Mix

Solo closes with the one principle that matters more than any technique taught in the course: mixing has no single formal method, and his own guidelines are just that, guidelines, not a formula.

Module Eighteen: Why “Trust Your Ear” Overrides Every Rule in This Course

Solo’s Full Workbook & Outcomes PDF

Part Four: Solo's Best Advice

Step behind the curtain with Solo Tohi, the Sydney-based musician, songwriter and audio engineer known as i.amsolo. Solo entered the entertainment industry in Justice Crew before moving fully into music production, and has since achieved significant industry acclaim, including an ARIA Award nomination co-producing records for some of Australian hip hop’s biggest names, including ONEFOUR’s platinum single “Say It Again” featuring A$AP Ferg.&nbsp;<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ONEFOUR &amp; The Kid LAROI: Co-producing the multi-platinum hit "My City".</li><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">HP Boyz: Crafting the beat for their popular track "Reminders" alongside frequent collaborator Willstah.</li><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Plus collaborations with artists like Ella Mai, Becca Hatch, Urthboy, BLESSED, and Anfa Rose.</li></ul>This isn’t a generic plugin walkthrough, it’s an insider’s look at a real session, built start to finish, using Solo's own genuine numbers and settings throughout.Across mixing, monitoring and pre-mastering for genres built on dense vocal chops and samples, Solo distils his working process into fundamentals any self-producing artist or mixer can apply immediately.His philosophy centres on space: every instrument, like every player in a band, needs its own room to be heard. Get that right, he believes, and the rest of the mix takes care of itself.You’ll learn how to:<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -6pt; padding-left: 6pt;">Build a repeatable mixing workflow, from prepping and organising stems through to a finished, balanced mix.</li><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -6pt; padding-left: 6pt;">Set up a mixing environment that tells you the truth, with practical monitor placement and room treatment.</li><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -6pt; padding-left: 6pt;">Organise a dense session the way a working engineer does, grouping and labelling stems so nothing gets lost as a mix grows.</li><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -6pt; padding-left: 6pt;">Carve real space between instruments with EQ, clearing the frequencies a vocal needs to sit clean and upfront.</li><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -6pt; padding-left: 6pt;">Duck a vocal chop automatically using a genuine sidechain technique, so busy vocal-adjacent elements never clash with the lead.</li><li aria-level="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -6pt; padding-left: 6pt;">Add depth, movement and width with reverb, panning automation and a delay send, then run a real pre-master chain before a mix ever leaves the session.</li></ul>You’ll get exclusive access to Solo's own settings, signal chains and session habits, giving you a toolkit to: set up a space that tells you the truth, build a mix that doesn’t fight itself, and finish with a genuine pre-master ready for streaming or a mastering engineer. By the end of the course, you’ll understand not just which tools to reach for, but why, and how to trust your own ear once the guidelines run out.Whether you’re a self-producing artist mixing your own tracks for the first time, a producer wanting to properly finish what you write, or an emerging mix engineer building real technical foundations, this course is your blueprint for a mix where every element finally has its own space.Join Solo as he shares his real working numbers, signal chains and mixing philosophy, to help you build mixes that hold together, and the confidence to trust your own ear once you do.

Give It Space: Fundamentals of Mixing - In this exclusive mentor session, SOLO breaks down his complete mixing process from first import to a pre-master chain, so every instrument in your mix finally gets the room it needs to be heard.

Course content

Solo - Give it Space - The Fundamentals of Mixing and Producing

Helen Marx

What you will learn

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