Recording Institute of Detroit and Recording Website family of sites announce free hands-on training in mixing & mastering techniques by master engineer, Bob Dennis and Studio Owner/Engineer, Stephen Baldassarre. Online training began 3/11/2012. The "family" of sites offering this service are as follows:      recordingwebsite.com, mixingwebsite.com and masteringwebsite.com. Registering as a user on any of these sites allows member service at all of the sites. 
  

Despite all sorts of software and hardware mastering tools being available to today's engineers, the sound quality of music releases diminishes more and more each year. The golden ears of the industry will quickly tell you that the best sound quality for released music was in the late 1970's to early 1980's. Question: What have the engineers been doing for the last 30 years? Answer: Ignoring quality in favor of increased loudness. The mastering techniques taught though RW's Mastering Website are called "Motown Heritage" mastering techniques, because both the loudness and the sound quality of the final product are considered, the same method that helped the Motown Label become a huge success in the 1960's.

Mixing skills come from a lot of practice. Knowing audio theory helps to get you started, but there is no substitute for doing it, over & over. When mixing you have 16-24 audio tracks, each of which can be processed to bring out the subtleties of the performance, but the new engineer will quickly find that mixing is much more than this. You have to get your enhanced track to sound good while it plays with the other tracks - not as easy a task as one could imagine. Good mixing skills take years of practice and is all-important to an engineer's success.

Getting good at anything requires feedback on your work from professionals. The Recording Website format shines in this area with lots of feedback for participants. 
  

With Music, production and recording credits on hit country artist Kenya Darling, major films like "The Fighter," "Love Guru,' "Dwegons" and "Entrance," Fox TV Series, "Sons of Tucson" Marshall has become a nationally recognized producer  and does client sessions in at his mid-Michigan studio (Real II Reel Productions), and also at Nashville & Burbank, CA studios.

Superstar songwriter/performer Dick Wagner  with songwriting & performing credits for Alice Cooper, KISS, Areosmith, Meat Loaf, Ringo Starr, Air Supply, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Hall & Oats (to name a few) recently spent almost a month at Real II Reel writing and recording music for himself and for RIIR Clients.