Absolutely love the breakdown and attention to detail here! The way you highlight each step of the drum mix really shows the artistry behind creating that perfect groove. Anderson .Paak’s drum fills bring such a unique touch, and your approach to balancing the kit with panning, subtle EQ moves, and transient shaping is 🔥. Also, manually automating the ghost notes to improve dynamics? Genius! You took this mix from solid to sublime. Can’t wait to see more of these deep dives, super helpful! 👏👏
Oh Man...what a great run! This was just what the tips of my mixing neurons needed! So many of us are trying to gracefully dial in super tasty God level drums - this was a real treat to watch you surgically isolate each layer (multi-track audio ADSR essentially) and inject sonic steroids around every corner. But most importantly, keeping a texture blend and balance between strength/flow to make the whole performance shine. Refreshing to sense how much you love the smallest details as they unfold!! TY
Hey Jesse I notice that when you make a new band on ProQ3 it is defaulting to 24dB slope, is this a setting/option? I'd love to have that, I used that shape a lot. Thanks!
If I remember correctly, you make a new band and then option-shift-click the band itself, and it changes the slope. I like that filter shape because it's a little more precise without dragging in unwanted nearby frequencies.
Hey mate shouts from down under Australia! I'm wondering if you can help me with my question. I'm trying to make a video recording of my mastering hardware. I am running it out of Ableton, through the hardware and back into Ableton, then through a limiter. I'm trying to use OBS to capture the post ITB limiter as the audio but it is either capturing the pre and post-outboard signal together or not capturing the final limiting if I set it to record the input. I’ve see your vids where you run through your hardware and insert it and it sounds great so I assume it is possible. Any ideas? I'm OSX and also tried Loopback but it only seems to see the pre-final master as the Ableton signal! I'm losing my mind over here!
@@jesseraymixyo thanks man, I’m trying to do the same with loopback but it only seems to pull the pre final limiter version out of Ableton. Any ideas why?
Yes, it's super disorienting for me to see meter energy that doesn't reflect the fader balances. Wow, I haven't ever actually thought about why that is though.. Great question! What do y'all prefer?
@@jesseraymix I kinda see it more like a console. for me if there's nothing going on in my meters..there's nothing. I tend to use bright colours (like no gray zone on my tracks) to not be disoriented in a big session with a lot of tracks. I really hate dark pro tools, I can't see clearly.
I think this treatment made less of what was a great groove. Sonically better and more interesting, but listening to the end versus the beginning, it’s like a robot was asked to replicate what the drummer played. The playing loses a lot of its subtlety.
To each their own, but there’s a lot more to a groove than timing. I think it loses feel. It becomes mechanical sounding. And that’s totally fine if it’s the desired result. But I hear less movement. I think you could quite easily make these drums apparent in a mix and keep the groove as played personally. I actually find it’s the variation in things that give them more excitement. Agree with you about the texture - sonically they’re much improved.
@@GlassideI absolutely agree that it comes down to taste. And yes, I agree that groove is not -just- in the hit placement but I think, however, that when a performance is quantized to this degree, you run the risk of sounding a bit "in between" and on the unprocessed side if you don't approach processing like this, especially considering genre, style and the overall production.
"In every stroke, a soul’s unique art." It all comes down to personal taste, and that's the essence of creating in this big beautiful world. We all have a different take on things. I'm not certain that I would even approach this the same way if I were to mix it the next day, or the day after that! The intent here was just to "hang out" and have some fun mixing drums! :)
The free nature of RUclips is really appealing to me, and is a big reason I've veered away from the "paid courses" model. This is just a place for me to jam and yap and have fun, and hopefully whoever digs it will enjoy being here for free. This world is expensive enough as it is :/
This is basically a Bob Ross episode for mixing 🔥
Interesting to see a mixing engineers print inside not in a treated studio room and just out in the open with monitors
Absolutely love the breakdown and attention to detail here! The way you highlight each step of the drum mix really shows the artistry behind creating that perfect groove. Anderson .Paak’s drum fills bring such a unique touch, and your approach to balancing the kit with panning, subtle EQ moves, and transient shaping is 🔥. Also, manually automating the ghost notes to improve dynamics? Genius! You took this mix from solid to sublime. Can’t wait to see more of these deep dives, super helpful! 👏👏
Oh Man...what a great run! This was just what the tips of my mixing neurons needed! So many of us are trying to gracefully dial in super tasty God level drums - this was a real treat to watch you surgically isolate each layer (multi-track audio ADSR essentially) and inject sonic steroids around every corner. But most importantly, keeping a texture blend and balance between strength/flow to make the whole performance shine. Refreshing to sense how much you love the smallest details as they unfold!! TY
Awesome video! 🤘🏻 Great to see your process and get some explanations of what you’re hearing!
Love the new videos you've been uploading!
Please don't stop making them!🤲🏾😭
Thank you sooo much for uploading these videos! 🙏🏼🫶🏼
Dmn ❤️🔥.I can’t wait until you drop the next video.
THE GOAT DOES IT AGAIN
Jesse Ray the goat!
The Sonnox Drum Gate is a lifesaver if you mix lots of live drums. Excellent video Jesse!
Yeeeaaahhhhh I'll snag that today :)
Sheesh! That mix after was fire! And no samples too 😤
a lot learnt here. great techniques
love the way you explain things!
But we worked so hard to make that one bar before the break brighter... and now you cocked it. 😂
When are you mixing the whole record?
Hey Jesse I notice that when you make a new band on ProQ3 it is defaulting to 24dB slope, is this a setting/option? I'd love to have that, I used that shape a lot. Thanks!
If I remember correctly, you make a new band and then option-shift-click the band itself, and it changes the slope. I like that filter shape because it's a little more precise without dragging in unwanted nearby frequencies.
@@jesseraymix Thanks Jesse that works a treat!
Hey mate shouts from down under Australia!
I'm wondering if you can help me with my question. I'm trying to make a video recording of my mastering hardware. I am running it out of Ableton, through the hardware and back into Ableton, then through a limiter.
I'm trying to use OBS to capture the post ITB limiter as the audio but it is either capturing the pre and post-outboard signal together or not capturing the final limiting if I set it to record the input.
I’ve see your vids where you run through your hardware and insert it and it sounds great so I assume it is possible. Any ideas? I'm OSX and also tried Loopback but it only seems to see the pre-final master as the Ableton signal! I'm losing my mind over here!
Hey hey, I use Loopback to pull the Pro Tools and Microphone audio into Screenflow !
@@jesseraymixyo thanks man, I’m trying to do the same with loopback but it only seems to pull the pre final limiter version out of Ableton. Any ideas why?
Thanks man
any reason why you prefer your meters to be post fader ?
Yes, it's super disorienting for me to see meter energy that doesn't reflect the fader balances. Wow, I haven't ever actually thought about why that is though.. Great question! What do y'all prefer?
@@jesseraymix I kinda see it more like a console. for me if there's nothing going on in my meters..there's nothing. I tend to use bright colours (like no gray zone on my tracks) to not be disoriented in a big session with a lot of tracks. I really hate dark pro tools, I can't see clearly.
Awesome vid. Omega TWK is great for when both N and A dont make the cut
TWK is the secret sauce for kicks. So underrated!!!
❤Thanks
Don master Jesse
🔥🔥🔥
Just for curiosity what speakers are those Jesse ?
Strauss Elektroakustik SE-MF-4 !
I think this treatment made less of what was a great groove. Sonically better and more interesting, but listening to the end versus the beginning, it’s like a robot was asked to replicate what the drummer played. The playing loses a lot of its subtlety.
The groove is really quantized from the get go. The final mix achieves much needed excitement, texture and movement.
To each their own, but there’s a lot more to a groove than timing. I think it loses feel. It becomes mechanical sounding. And that’s totally fine if it’s the desired result. But I hear less movement. I think you could quite easily make these drums apparent in a mix and keep the groove as played personally. I actually find it’s the variation in things that give them more excitement. Agree with you about the texture - sonically they’re much improved.
@@GlassideI absolutely agree that it comes down to taste. And yes, I agree that groove is not -just- in the hit placement but I think, however, that when a performance is quantized to this degree, you run the risk of sounding a bit "in between" and on the unprocessed side if you don't approach processing like this, especially considering genre, style and the overall production.
"In every stroke, a soul’s unique art." It all comes down to personal taste, and that's the essence of creating in this big beautiful world. We all have a different take on things. I'm not certain that I would even approach this the same way if I were to mix it the next day, or the day after that! The intent here was just to "hang out" and have some fun mixing drums! :)
Cool way of hearing too 😎
Howdy, Can you start a paid Twitch and Discord group pls!? Would love to mod. Got some tunes on my page.
The free nature of RUclips is really appealing to me, and is a big reason I've veered away from the "paid courses" model. This is just a place for me to jam and yap and have fun, and hopefully whoever digs it will enjoy being here for free. This world is expensive enough as it is :/