The Professional Edition includes the complete masterclass, plus one private session where we apply the framework directly to your own projects. If you prefer the self-paced option, the Core Edition is available here.
ABOUT THE MASTERCLASS
This masterclass doesn't just teach reverb.
It teaches you how to think about spatial decisions the way they function inside a professional mix — where workflow, technical execution, and storytelling are inseparable.
You'll work through the complete audio post-production workflow—from dialogue editing to the final mix—following the same progression used on professional projects. Each technical concept is introduced in context before becoming a creative storytelling decision.
Along the way, you'll explore how spatial decisions influence realism, perspective, subjectivity, and narrative focus, developing the judgment behind every choice rather than relying on presets or fixed techniques.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Built for people who think seriously about sound.
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Students of film sound
Still relying on tutorials?
Build a professional way of thinking.
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Early-career mixers
Still second-guessing your mixes? Learn how to make confident decisions.
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Sound designers
Go beyond creating impressive sounds. Learn to shape emotion, perspective and story.
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Professionals
Elevate your creative judgment and articulate every decision with clarity.
THE PRIVATE ONE-TO-ONE SESSION
The masterclass builds understanding.
The one-to-one application refines judgement.
Leave the session with clearer answers, specific revisions to your mix, and a deeper understanding you can carry into future projects.
GUIDED APPLICATION
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We analyse your work together.
In a private one-to-one session, we examine your dialogue mix in detail — unpacking the technical and creative decisions behind it, and refining how you evaluate space, realism, and narrative perspective in real sessions.
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We apply the framework to your real projects.
The concepts are not left theoretical. We work directly inside your session — translating intention into practical decisions, balance, and a mix that serves the moment within the story.
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Every chapter combines focused video lessons with written guides and practical, real-world demonstrations.
Alongside the masterclass, you’ll receive a 60+ page Practical Companion — built as a working reference rather than a transcript of the lessons.
Decision frameworks, workflow notes, tool guidance and practical principles are organised so you can return to them when those decisions come up in your own work.
CURRICULUM
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START HERE
1 video introduction · 1 written guide
The Intro
— About the masterclass, the practical companion and exercises.
How this masterclass is designed and structured to ensure your success.
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TECHNICAL USE OF REVERB ON DIALOGUE
12 video lessons · 14 written guides · 60 min of focused instruction
Most people learn how to use reverb.
Few learn what it is actually doing.
Before reverb becomes a creative tool, it serves a different purpose entirely. This chapter explores how technical reverb creates spatial consistency throughout the dialogue editing and mixing stages of audio post-production — between microphones, recordings, ADR, and production dialogue. More importantly, you'll learn the thinking behind those decisions — building a way of approaching audio post that extends far beyond reverb itself. You'll stop wondering whether a cut is hiding a continuity problem, and start hearing exactly where the space breaks. You'll learn how to: — Understand why technical reverb exists before creative decisions begin — Match microphones, recordings, ADR, and production dialogue — Restore spatial information lost through dialogue repair and heavy processing — Decide when to add, reduce, or remove reverb — Create spatial consistency throughout the dialogue edit and the final mix — Understand how workflow shapes technical decisions — Develop judgment beyond presets and automatic tools Outcome By the end of this chapter, technical reverb will no longer feel like a plug-in or a process — it will feel like a way of thinking about consistency throughout audio post-production. You'll catch the seams other mixers miss, before a client ever has to point them out.
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CREATIVE USE OF REVERB ON DIALOGUE
The same tool. An entirely different objective.
Now it doesn't just shape space, it defines how the story is told.
11 video lessons · 11 written guides · 60 min of focused instruction
Once technical consistency has been established, reverb becomes a creative decision. This chapter explores how reverb shapes realism, perspective, focus, and immersion throughout the mixing stage of audio post-production. More importantly, you'll learn how every creative reverb decision begins with narrative intent rather than presets or convention. You'll stop defaulting to a reverb because it sounds good, and start choosing it because it tells the audience where to look. You'll learn how to: — Distinguish between technical and creative uses of reverb — Shape believable spaces without confusing realism with accuracy — Understand the relationship between realism and immersion — Control audience focus through mono, stereo, and surround reverbs — Use perspective to support distance, movement, and visual storytelling — Build believable exterior spaces — Make creative reverb decisions that serve the story rather than the effect Outcome By the end of this chapter, you'll understand how reverb shapes the sonic world of a film and the audience's experience of it — and you'll be able to defend every spatial choice you make, because you'll know exactly what it's doing for the story.
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When reality begins to bend, reverb can shape how the audience experiences the moment.
REVERB, DIALOGUE AND SUBJECTIVITY
2 video lessons · 3 written guides · 25 min of focused instruction
When reverb breaks away from the physical reality of a scene, it can begin to reflect experience rather than environment. This chapter explores how reverberation can move beyond realism and become subjective, emotional or symbolic — shaping not just where we are, but how the moment is experienced. More importantly, you’ll learn why subjectivity is not created simply by choosing an unusual reverb. The story itself has to create the opportunity for sound to take us somewhere beyond physical reality. You’ll learn how to: — Understand the shift from objective space to subjective experience — Use reverb to support a character’s internal perspective — Distinguish between character subjectivity and subjectivity created primarily for the audience — Shape different degrees of subjectivity, from subtle detachment to complete abstraction — Use space to create isolation, intimacy, distance, or emotional exposure — Break the relationship between reverberation and physical reality with narrative intention — Understand how mono, stereo, and surround formats can contribute to contrast without defining subjectivity themselves — Recognise when a subjective treatment is serving the story rather than simply creating an interesting effect Outcome By the end of this chapter, you’ll understand how reverb can move beyond describing where a character is and begin shaping how a moment is experienced. You’ll be able to recognise when the story invites a subjective approach, decide how far to push it, and use reverberation as part of the emotional narrative rather than simply as a representation of space.
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PRACTICAL APLICATION
Building on the demonstrations throughout the masterclass, this final chapter brings the technical, creative and narrative thinking together across longer practical walkthroughs.
Extended practical walkthroughs
Watch the decisions develop in context — from identifying what the scene needs to testing, refining and committing to an approach.
Frequently Asked Questions
PRACTICAL DETAILS
SEE HOW THE MASTERCLASS THINKS.
FROM CHAPTER TWO — REALISM
Defining Realism in Audio Post
In audio post-production, our goal is not to recreate reality.
It's to construct a version of it that serves the story.
Realism is not accuracy. It is believability.
What matters is not whether something is technically identical to the real world —
but whether it feels believable within the context of the scene.
This distinction shapes every creative decision we make.
Don't be literal — be believable.
INSIDE THE MASTERCLASS
The full chapter is divided into focused video lessons and written breakdowns. Together they guide you step by step through the creative use of reverb in audio post.
Each section builds on the last.
By the end, you'll hear the whole picture.
And the Practical Companion gives you a way to carry that thinking back into your own sessions.
ENROL
PROFESSIONAL ONLY
One-to-one session & project feedback — 45min
26 video lessons · 25 written guides
Practical, real-world demonstrations throughout
Lifetime access — no expiry
01 Technical Use of Reverb on DX
04 Practical Application
The Practical Companion · 60+ pages
WHAT'S INCLUDED
A reference you'll return to long after the course ends.
02 Creative Use of Reverb on DX
03 Reverb, Dialogue & Subjectivity
Go further —
from sound to story.
After this masterclass, you won’t approach reverb as something you simply add to dialogue.
You’ll understand when it is solving a technical problem, shaping realism or subjectivity, or controlling the audience’s relationship to the character, the space and the story.
You’ll make spatial decisions with intention — not from presets, habits or guesswork.
