Gear Gods presents Studio Pass: Kurt Ballou with Kurt Ballou

This was a great course to pick apart the brain of The Kurt Ballou, but I felt some of the topics could be presented a little better and went more in-depth in like the framework of the mixing process. I fell like if you don't have an understanding of basic audio engineering you would be pretty lost but thank god I knew enough to get me through. But nonetheless, Kurt shared some pretty interesting techniques like the crossover method. Love this guy! Hope to see more of him!

What a great educator! I recommend this course to anyone on any level. I'd like more footage from the studio, though, but it is still cool. Don't think too long. Get it now!

Learned a lot. Highly recommend! Kurt is the best.

First off, even though I'm neither a beginner nor a recording professional, this class is absolutely worth the money you spend on it - especially if you plan on making heavy music. There are enough tips, tricks and guidance in here to get your money's worth many times over. That said, as an indie artist who goes to a studio to record drum tracks, then does the rest ina home studio I found some of the things disheartening. Much of the class follows a "I do this thing using item / amp / microphone / plugin (X), it's pretty cool" vibe, and it sounds cool.... until you check the price. As an example, the 'stereo buss processing' section sounds fun to try, except for the part where the three pieces of gear cost about $8K. As a result I found myself figuring out how to incorporate the essence of what he was saying without the gear budget to do so. Maybe I'm not the intended audience but a little more concept and less gearhead would have been even better. That said you should totally get it, it's a low price for so many hours of great content.

Solid gear class.

I thoroughly enjoyed and use this class on all my sessions. Very informative and obviously as a fan very entertaining. I primarily track punk and hardcore. Best money spent.

AWESOME

Super interesting class, well prepared, with a lot of simple and efficient little tricks as well as more wide vision about how a mix should be. Thank you Kurt and thank you CreativeLive :)

I've been engineering out of my home studio for the past 7 years. I recently graduated from college for studio production and recording bands has been my main source of income for the past 5 years or so. Honestly, this course was incredible and completely worth the $100. Kurt Ballou truly understands the art and he really got me excited to be a recording engineer. I already knew a lot of the techniques and details he went over, but he presented his ideas so intelligently that I was happy to sit through the topics that focused on beginners. I'm not a huge metal or hardcore fan, but Kurt has amazing taste in the way he produces these bands. It's hard to listen to some of the releases today that have the life sucked out of their music with full-on drum replacement and crazy amounts of autotune. It was just refreshing to listen to an engineer who totally knows what makes rock music exciting. This class is worth checking out even just to watch a successful modern engineer show you the basics of his craft.

After three years of university training I still found this master class very useful and am glad to have paid for it. Especially the drum premixing and tom editing parts were incredibly useful and Kurt was well prepared and very pedagogical in his teaching.

This course has been the most comprehensive I have watched concerning the art of audio manipulation. The points made in terms of phase relationships, mic technique, and polarity are valuable insight into getting good sound. My personal favorite was the way he edits toms. All the content is good stuff and well worth your money. Icing on the cake in the included IR samples. I purchased the course for $79. I love you Kurt!

Amazing, watch it the whole way through. Kurt explains a lot of techniques that is not so common for everyone. Will absolutely use this to reference in the future, when in doubt. Cheers/ Wilmer