Essential Steps of Mixing Drums | Are You Listening? Season 5, Ep 2
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Learn how to mix drums by building a great foundation packed with punchy lows, crispy highs, and plenty of character. In this episode of ‘Are You Listening?,’ GRAMMY Award-winning mix engineer Enrique Gonzalez Müller shares how to identify the lowest and highest frequencies in your mix and use these as sonic references when selecting complementary sample replacements and EQ moves. Learn how to determine the “role” of each sound in your low end so you can use them to support a track’s overarching emotional objectives when mixing drums.
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The song used in this season of ‘Are You Listening?’ is “Kombucha” by Winnetka Bowling League: open.spotify.com/track/7pGYQz...
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - Inspecting the arrangement
00:08:53 - Adding drum samples
00:25:08 - Mixing Kicks
00:37:08 - Mixing Snares
00:45:23 - Mixing the verse drums
00:52:46 - High-frequency content
01:10:22 - Finishing up the beat
01:18:33 - Parallel processing
01:24:57 - Comparison and last thoughts
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What essential steps do you take when you're mixing drums? 🥁
I’m a simple man. I see Enrique Gonzalez Mueller, I click play.
Another awesome video, Professor! Always good to see your handiwork!
I love how passionate you present this. I would not make some of your choices, but then again, everyone has a different taste and preference. So all is good. The main importance is how you share the process with us. As a DIY musician, I fully appreciate this sharing. Thanks so much
“I love how passionate you present this. I would not make some of your choices, but then again, everyone has a different taste and preference.” Thank you and EXACTLY! For me mixing “success” is achieved when the artist feels extremely well represented and proud of the work we’ve done... while our UNIQUE and distinct voice as mixers clearly shines through. 😎 My hope is to raise awareness of specific applicable-to-all mixing CONCEPTS, while sharing my unique process as a creative mixer. Hopefully this will inspire you to explore how you would approach this in your own unique way. Thanks again and enjoy!
Enrique is the GOAT.
Great work, my friend. Awesome tutorial. Thanks so much
I liked the way he proceeded to deal with the crash live, delay + flanger #psychedelic thing , love it!!
Thank you for putting this super informative video. Also, thank you for making it easy to understand the concepts!
This episode is awesome 😎👌...
I can't wait to watch next episode...🔥🔥🔥
These are always great and inspiring. Thank you! Keep them coming HA
Thanks so a lot for this amazing tutorials.
Thanks alot for this amazing tutorials
What an incredible resource!!
Awesome tutorial Enrique, You give us good ideas with good energy, thank you Izotope and make more with this guy
All the drum samples made it sound like an earlier Beck tune. Still a great instructional video.
Amazing, I need this video! I've been using the UNMASK module plugin by itself on the drums and bass to get the vocal to sit in the mix. Just sidechain to the vocal and adjust the bands and it carves out frequencies that are stepping on the vocal. Very subtle blend.. but you can actually turn down the vocals a little and they are still more forward in the mix than before.
I might not make the same choices as you, but your logic I can get behind. Very creative and a vast improvement over the original
These are great, thanks
Literally can't wait for the next Epi
Really like the series, thank you! Also, thank you for a great example of phase issues. The example of fixing it with Relay at 13:13, helped to make the phase issues sink Enrique!
There are so many tips and ideas in this. What a masterclass!
MUCHAS GRACIAS MAESTRO !! What a great Master Class
god this shit is so interesting and useful for my music and your beard is magnificent thank you
"the plugin police aren't going to come after you" LOL
thanks for sharing and going through ur thought process!! its an interesting approach- i love the fullness it adds - i wonder it wouldn't be worth trying to actually mix the original drums sounds ur given to match some of these tones ur going for? like EQ VERB compression can get you to some of the sample sounds u brought in -- but i guess its faster (and seems fun) to just bring in samples to layer. LOVE the chorus tones
wow amazing video can actually say i got better as mixer after this video
Interesting session, but I don't think I would have chosen those samples. The verse reminds me of modern pop, but not really Indie, which this song is to me. Querky: yes! But I would have toned it down (literally: much less highs in the drums). The new chorus samples don't sound like classic rock to me (I was young in the 70's) but more like 80's new wave. Sorry, I don't like it. Still a great tutorial! The fact I would have chosen differently is an option to think about because you are very clear in explaining your choices, and it helps me think of what I would have done.
I can appreciate your looking to use samples to do what you've done. Is it safe to assume that the sample libraries you're pulling from that are either pre-cleared or properly licensed for that purpose?
Really enjoying the series so far! 👍😁
I just came across these videos, such a beautiful series, pls can this idea be replicated but on a future base style of music, that will be amazing to see how each section is mixed from top to bottom.
Thanks very much.
Thank you so much for the feedback. Working hard to drop more content like this as we speak. 🙌
Let's go!!!
This song gives if Beck "Odelay" and Abandoned Pools "Humanistic" had a baby
I used Neutron on all of my instruments in my latest release and I gotta say I was thoroughly impressed with the ai and how well it made each instrumental to a T sound!
Dude! That's so sick to hear. You reviewed my band a couple years ago and I didn't know you were into producing stuff, let alone with iZo plugins. Kudos man!
@@sharchik916 Absolutely man! WHo's your band? I got a new EP dropping February 17th
Just wana ask tho, which is a better practice? Finding smples that sound how you need em to sound or tweaking what you got till it fits ito what you'd prefer it to soud like?
1:06:55 Can you please explain how adding anything at 17kHz can "almost feel" like anything as I don't think you're at an age where you can hear these frequencies?
The ref mix played when starting the chorus low end kick is set to -14db. But how do you match that level to 1 kick sample?
51:57 odd choice for the snares. they don't sound quirky to me but artificial (tiny improvement over the original). personal taste probably. The new kick rocks though,
I was hearing The Jam's Start, nod to the Beatles taxman but tighter on the drums. I would have gated or transient shaped the bass drum to take the tail off and added some SB using mbassador from melda with some saturation on it so it would not be lost on shitty speakers, 5 or 12 semitones down from the bd pitch. Then I would have gated the snare to make it pop that way. The gating would open the space for the toms, which I thought were very cool as is. To me the samples take any dynamics out and change the sound to the mix engineer's sound rather than the bands. I think this alternative would draw out what's there instead of superimposing over it. A tight slap back and/or a tiny bit of tight reverb and /or a little compression on the overall drum bus to glue it back together although the gated sound could work alone with none of that for a kind of jagged postmodern sound. I lost interest after the snare treatment but would have returned to the whole mix to work on the cymbals. IDK, maybe he did. I'd love to have the stems for this track to hear if my way would do what I hear in my head, but that would be my first approach to it.
PS I am going to check Enrique"s other vids though, since while I would have taken a different approach here I learned some from the vid and it is really well presented.
I might also try pushing the snare a few ms here and there if it is too perfectly quantized. Maybe maybe not
Not to derail the very good ideas in this video but it seems like mono/stereo and mid/side are in some places used interchangeably (editing mistake, perhaps, I'm certain Mr Wyner knows the difference) and I think that should be clarified. Mono is summing L and R channels of the stereo channel together. Mid is only the information that is identical between L and R channels. Side is only the information that differs between L and R channels. Anyway, thanks for the great videos! ✌️
Perfect video! I have on question, at 12:16 the original kick transient looks a little delayed compared to the samples, should i worry to quantize it to the grid just as the samples transients?
I mean, phase flip is always the answer?
@@locatellichristian The old adage is "if it sounds good it is good" right? With drum phase, aligning everything visually is a good starting point, but you can get there fast enough by flipping phase on one track most of the time and listening for improvement. From there you can use a time align plugin or move stuff manually to get even "better" stuff but sometimes the "exactly right" phase coherent thing might not sound as cool as two mics or samples just layered and phase flipped to be close enough. In the end its up to you I guess
Your drum sample library is labeled "EGM"? What does that stand for?
EGM = Enrique Gonzalez Müller ;)
Looper man!?😁👍🏽
The artist clearly had a vision, and made a good track. The mix engineer decided arbitrarily, and unilaterally, to rob the drums of all personality by genericizing them.
Agreed. Mix engineer should by mixing not Reassigning.
First to comment!!!!!!
First to reply!!!
Stunning 🤪🙏 you should get your salary doubled…🤣👌✌️👏
your advocacy for sample replacement will be why AI replaces you.
I would be very upset if my drums came back sounding like this after I sent it off to get mixed. Samples are cool, but not that cool, especially the ones used here. They should enhance the arrangement, not completely change it. This song sounds so goofy with the replacement drums.