MASTERING THE MIX
Mixes That Finally Translate
The course that gets your mixes translating in the car, at the club, on the phone, and on the big rig. Same mix. Every system. Every time.
Join 1,000+ producers trained by ill.Gates.
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The course that gets your mixes translating in the car, at the club, on the phone, and on the big rig. Same mix. Every system. Every time.
Join 1,000+ producers trained by ill.Gates.
You’re in a car on date night. Your date picks you up and says, “Hey, play me one of your songs.” Especially if it’s your date’s car. Ooh, they know that stereo. They know what it’s supposed to sound like. And if your music doesn’t sound like that, you better be bringing some serious personality.
You get a gig. The DJ before you is like, “Hey, do you need me to slow it down for you? I can end with something chill.” What’s your answer? Are their mixes going to overwhelm the start of your set?
Imagine it’s 20 years from now. Your daughter is hanging out with her friends. One of her sons says, “Hey, didn’t one of your parents make music in the 2020s? Was it any good? Show us a song.” This is a question that gets asked. It gets asked a lot.
You haven’t walked the path yet.
Twelve weeks. Twelve classes. Twelve mixing challenges. Each one builds on the last, so by the end your ears hear the whole thing at once.
You’ll know why every fader move, every EQ cut, every master chain does what it does. No more guessing. No more second-guessing your references.
By the end, the mix in your headphones is the mix on the car stereo, the club rig, and the phone speaker.
Develop the reference ear a mix engineer leans on. Hear what’s actually in the track, so every move you make pushes the mix forward.
Waves, dynamics, depth, effects, bussing. The moves that hold up on every system, that you’ll reach for on every session from here on.
Finish the course with a master you’re proud of. Tracks that translate in the car, at the gig, on the phone, on the big rig.
Get mixes that translate on every system you play them on.
Every week you walk away with a real mixing skill, a real mix under your belt, and written feedback from ill.Gates on that mix. Weeks stack. By the end, your ears hear the whole thing at once and your mixes translate everywhere.
Before the first channel, we make sure your room, your monitors, and your session template aren’t fighting you. The foundation every mix gets built on.
Learn to compare your work to the standard you’re actually chasing. The listening habit every mix engineer leans on.
“Black magic S***.” –ill.Gates
Three companion sessions included with Mastering The Mix. Go deeper on any topic, on your own time.
The same toolkit ill.Gates uses on his own mixes. Load them up and you’re working behind tracks for Gucci Mane, Alanis Morissette, and Star Wars.
Drop your mixes in the course Discord. Get written feedback from ill.Gates on every one, every week.
You’re not going at this by yourself. You’re part of a community working through the same challenges as you. Drop your mixes in the Discord and get feedback from the community, including from ill.Gates.
Headliners who learned from ill.Gates:
These are the producers who did the work.
You can join them.
20 years · 60+M streams · 275 tracks · 1,000+ shows
My name is ill.Gates and I'm like the opposite of a Gatekeeper. Unlocking and sharing musical secrets is what I do.
I've racked up 58 million plays on over 300 songs, including collaborations with the winners of 10 Grammys, and made music for Star Wars and GTA5. My past students and collaborators include Apashe, G Jones, Illenium, Mr. Bill, Beats Antique, Eprom, Pretty Lights, Daily Bread, and Dr Fresch. Grammy nominee Damian Taylor (producer of Bjork, The Prodigy, The Killers, and Arcade Fire) even used my Moog sub multisamples on all his Grammy-nominated albums.
I've been DJing since I was 13. Performing is what I do. What I've always done. What I will never stop doing. Music runs through my veins. It's what fuels me. 1,000+ shows on 5 continents, still slayin' it on the daily.
I also teach. Built the world's first Ableton DJ Templates in 2006. Invented 'Mudpies' in 2008. Built '128s' in 2010. Founded Producer Dojo in 2016 with one mission: launch 1,000 music careers. 300+ consecutive weeks of live classes since. No breaks. No vacations. Guest lectures at Berklee College of Music, NYU, the Ableton Education Summit, and Ableton's 'One Thing'. Over 1,000 producers trained. My 128s-style wavetables ship with Serum 2, the world's most popular synth.
I spent 20 years designing the Dojo to be the most engaging, most effective, and most efficient home base for producers. The place I wish I'd had coming up.
Mastering The Mix is how you finish mixes that translate on every system.
I've worked with the best of the best, and I saw where the rest went astray. I studied both failure and success, tested method after method, and designed this course in collaboration with real musicians just like you.
Now it's your turn.
Mixing is where a lot of producers quit. They write tracks they love, the mixes don’t translate, and they can’t tell why. Most people stay stuck there for years.
This is the course where you learn to hear every detail in the mix, so every track you finish from here on sounds the way it’s supposed to.
Single payment. No subscription.
$499 ÷ 90 days = ~$5.54 a day. Less than your morning coffee.
Plus you keep it forever. No subscription. Free updates for life.
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee. If you don’t love it, email support for a full refund. No hoops.
Here's the deal.
Show up. Watch the classes. Do the assignments. If 30 days in, Mastering The Mix isn't delivering what I promised, email support and get every dollar back. No phone calls. No hassle. No weird cancellation hoops.
The only risk is staying stuck.
Every course in the Producer Dojo catalog is available individually. Or get everything with an Annual Membership.
Finish music you’re proud of.
Beginner
Sound like yourself.
IntermediateGet your sound pro.
Intermediate
Find your style.
Intermediate
The Album Challenge.
Advanced5 courses × $499 = $2,495 individually.
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Every course, every tool, every resource. For less than the price of three courses bought separately.
You’ll never have to worry about whether the low end is going to be a pile of mud at the gig. You’ll never have to cringe when your song comes on in somebody’s car. You’ll know the mix is sick and so will everybody else.
You’ll never have to wonder why your tracks aren’t hitting the mark on the big rig. Why the vocals are buried. Why the kick doesn’t punch through on a phone speaker. You’ll know.
You’ll hear every detail in the mix, make decisions with confidence, and print masters that sound like masters on every system you play them on.
Two paths. One choice.
Another year of tracks that sound good on your monitors and fall apart everywhere else. Another year of bouncing, driving around, cringing, and rebouncing. Another year wondering why your mixes don’t translate like the tracks you reference.
90 days from today, you have a repeatable mixing process. You hear what’s actually in the track. You print masters you’re proud to play in the car, at the club, and on the phone. You’ll know.
Miss it and you’re waiting until the next round. There are no extensions and no exceptions. When the cohort starts, the door closes.
P.S. Composition, mixing, and sound design are the three pillars of music that feels intentional and full of emotion. Miss one and you’re missing a massive chunk of what makes great songs great. Every producer needs all three to make music that’s irresistible and lasts for generations. Are you ready?
GREAT. THEN I’LL SEE YOU IN THE DOJO.