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re·academy

Build a home studio
that doesn't sound like one.

Re·Program is your free home studio setup course. What to buy, what to skip, and how to build a room that records music that actually sounds good.

Bao Pham — Mixology Studios

The Re·Academy Path

The full curriculum, in order

Eight steps from your first home studio to a working freelance career. Start free with Re·Program. Click any course to see what's inside.

01

Re·Program

You Are Here · Free

Home studio setup — what to buy, what to skip, how to build a room that records music that sounds good.

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  • ✓Intro to RE·PROGRAM
  • ✓Home Studio Essentials
  • ✓Your Computer: the central piece
  • ✓Interfaces, Microphones, Headphones & Monitors
  • ✓Essential Accessories
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02

Re·Listen

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Fix your hearing first — mix on headphones, no treated room required.

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  • ◌Introduction — who this is for, what you'll achieve
  • ◌Audio basics, impedance, and headphone types
  • ◌Building your mobile studio setup (tiered budgets)
  • ◌Overcoming mobile mixing challenges (fatigue, bass, crossfeed)
  • ◌Mastering software tools (SoundID, CanOpener, Metric AB)
  • ◌Effective referencing and finalizing mixes
  • ◌Best practices + workflow personalization
  • ◌Working With AI in your headphone workflow
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03

Re·Acoustics

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Fix your room, fix your ears. The acoustic treatment course.

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  • ◌Why your room is lying to you
  • ◌The physics you actually need to understand
  • ◌Diagnosing your specific room's problems
  • ◌Types of treatment — panels, bass traps, diffusers
  • ◌Where to place treatment in your specific room
  • ◌Budget-tiered solutions ($0 / $250 / $1,000+)
  • ◌DIY panel build — step by step
  • ◌Buying pre-built panels — what to look for
  • ◌Room measurement tools (REW, free options)
  • ◌AI-assisted room correction (Sonarworks, Dirac, ARC)
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04

Re·Set

Available Now

Mix Session Preparation. Prep a session right, mix faster, finish stronger. Includes the Re·Voice Vocal Chain walkthrough as bonus content.

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  • ✓RE·SET Introduction — types of sessions, when to accept
  • ✓Logic Pro / GarageBand / ProTools session export
  • ✓Audio stems & files import/setup
  • ✓ProTools modes, sub-menus & shortcuts
  • ✓Go-to ProTools plug-ins for session prep
  • ✓ProTools Session Prep 101
  • ✓Respecting the rough — full stem tracked-out scenario
  • ✓Pitch correction in-depth
  • ✓Full session prep videos + student critiques
  • ✓BONUS — Re·Voice Vocal Chain walkthrough
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05

Re·Mix

Coming Soon

A diagnostic mixing system for any genre, any room. Real sessions, real decisions, real results.

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  • ◌The diagnostic listening framework
  • ◌Gain staging in the mix (resolving conflicting advice)
  • ◌EQ philosophy — surgical vs. musical, additive vs. subtractive
  • ◌Compression — dynamics vs. tone, serial compression
  • ◌Low-end management — kick-bass relationship, masking, HPF strategy
  • ◌Vocal mixing — raw to finished pipeline (extended section)
  • ◌Mix bus & parallel processing
  • ◌Spatial processing — reverb, delay, stereo width without washout
  • ◌Referencing workflow + mono compatibility + device testing
  • ◌Mix translation — why it fails and how to solve it
  • ◌Mixing vocals over stereo beats (hip-hop specific)
  • ◌Co-mixing with AI — stem separation, gain riding, second-opinion AI
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06

Re·Voice Vocal Chain Preset

Optional Add-On

You have the plugins. You've watched the tutorials. Your mixes are good — maybe even professional. But the vocals sit in the mix instead of commanding it. Clean, but not finished. That gap is signal-flow architecture — how the chain is routed, where compression hits, what stays clean, what gets crushed.

What it solves
  • ✓A drop-in vocal chain that closes the gap between "good" and "major-label"
  • ✓Routing, compression staging, and recombination already mapped
  • ✓Full setup walkthrough lives inside Re·Set as a bonus module
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07

Re·Master

Coming Soon

Stop guessing at LUFS. Master for the streaming era with real loudness data and a complete modern chain.

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  • ◌How loudness normalization actually works (platform by platform)
  • ◌What professional masters actually measure (real LUFS data)
  • ◌The -14 LUFS myth — killed with evidence
  • ◌The complete modern mastering chain
  • ◌True peak management and lossy codecs
  • ◌Genre-appropriate loudness targets
  • ◌Apple Digital Masters workflow
  • ◌Self-mastering vs. outsourcing — a decision framework
  • ◌When AI mastering tools are OK, and when they're not
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08

Re·Structure

Coming Soon

The business side of being a freelance engineer. Turn the skills above into sustainable income — pricing, clients, contracts, scaling.

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  • ◌Portfolio creation without a client list (Cambridge MT multitracks)
  • ◌Pricing frameworks with actual calculators — never race to the bottom
  • ◌Client acquisition systems — cold outreach + SoundBetter/Fiverr optimization
  • ◌Contracts and revision management templates
  • ◌Client communication workflows — the hidden career skill
  • ◌Scaling from side hustle to full-time income
  • ◌Passive income — presets, templates, sample packs, eventually courses
  • ◌AI for proposals, client emails, contracts, content creation
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