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title: "Dark Horse Institute: Advanced Mixing Online Program"
description: Our Advanced Mixing Online course is a 20-week certificate program built on a real-world, hands-on, full-immersion approach to learning — blending flexibility with mentorship.
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# Music Production School
The mission of Dark Horse Institute is to provide students with an accelerated, affordable and experiential learning environment designed to prepare them for a career in audio engineering, production, and the music business.
Our hands-on, mentor-based programs pair students with working industry professionals in real-world scenarios with recording studio resources, gear, and so much more.
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## Advanced Mixing Online:
**Our Advanced Mixing Online course is a 20-week certificate program built on a real-world, hands-on, full-immersion approach to learning — blending flexibility with mentorship.**
This program, like all Dark Horse Institute programs, is designed to help accelerate your growth as a music maker. You will get on-demand video lessons and tutorials, real-world practice, and most importantly real-time feedback on your efforts from a collection of industry professional mentors.
You’ll get expert instruction and hands-on experience in evaluating mixes, prepping DAW sessions, working with the Six Mix Tools, mixing in various genres, working with a wide variety of instruments, and powerful mix template techniques. You will also get an overview of mixing for spatial audio, post-production audio, and mastering for various formats.
## About the Program:
This program is a synchronous 20-week process, with twice per week meetings over Zoom to learn from professional mixers directly, and to workshop ongoing projects for helpful feedback on student work. By using full-resolution audio streaming, screen sharing, and screen control features it is easy for the mix mentors and students to see, listen, and even interact with the mixing in real-time — a feature which is increasingly being used within the industry to collaborate on mixes from across the globe.
Our instructors and mentors have decades of experience recording a “who’s who” of recording artists from all genres of music. They’ve worked on Gold, Platinum, and Grammy® winning albums and will be sharing their tips, tricks, and tools of the trade with you firsthand.
Our Advanced Mixing Online Program is a 20-week, 240-hour program divided into 17 modules. Mondays and Thursdays will be live with a mentor from 6-9pm CST, for a total of 120 hours of interactive mentorship throughout the course. There will be two real-world mixing projects during which you’ll build a professional portfolio and a public site to promote your work.
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## **Join the Music Industry**
Like our other courses, our online music business program is taught in a real-world, no-nonsense, immersive setting to help you enter the entertainment industry with a competitive edge. When it comes to getting an education in the Music Business, there are surprisingly few options that are both practical and affordable. Dark Horse Institute is that option!
## **Dark Horse Music Group**
Our Music Business program offers students the unique opportunity to manage new bands through our own indie Label. Dark Horse Music Group is is based in Nashville, the heart of the music industry. This cooperative is run exclusively by students where you will gain hands-on experience representing the diverse local music community.
## **Career Opportunities**
That's the bottom line. When you combine your business education with an entrepreneurial mindset there are no limits to your career opportunities. Artist Management, Booking & Touring, A&R, Digital Marketing & Distribution, Music Publishing, Entertainment Law & Finance and **many, many more...**
## Pitch Perfect
Our Music Business programs will take you behind the scenes where your class will PITCH an artist to the head of a major record label and the A & R Department.
Nothing is more important than receiving hands-on, real-world experience. Using all the tools available, you will scout out talent which has the potential to take it all the way.
## Dark Horse Music Group
In our programs, you’ll work with Dark Horse Music Group, a student-run recording, marketing and project management company. Using digital marketing platforms, you’ll scout and sign indie bands, and prepare them for the production of 6-song EPs recorded by our audio engineering students on-site in Franklin, TN, just outside of Nashville. You’ll also develop the web and social media marketing tools that are essential to launching a career.
### You'll find our GRADUATES working with some of the most celebrated artists in the world.
Dark Horse Institute is authorized for operation as a postsecondary education institution by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. In order to view detailed job placement and graduation information on the programs offered by Dark Horse Institute, please visit http://tn.gov/thec/topic/authorized-institutions-data and click on the Authorized Institutions Data.
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