How I Mix | Aggy Bas | Grinding Gears 3
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- I open up the logic session for Aggy Bas to show you how I mixed it. Warts and all!
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Grinding Gears Volume 3 will be out before 2021 :)
Video edited by John Hollingworth
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Hey guys, I’m Rabea. I'm the lead guitarist in Toska, Frog Leap & Dorje where I write music, make songs and have a great time with my mates. I also have my own line of guitars with Chapman Guitars, and I’ve designed numerous products with some really cool companies, such as the Victory Amps VX Kraken. Anyway, i hope you enjoy my videos, thank you for watching!
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I'm taking notes!
Damn.. it sounds absolutely crushing. And thats just with you doing a few tweaks here and there. Also speaks volumes about the QC. Its becoming more and more of an instant buy..
Seeing you become an entirely self-sufficient music factory has been one of my favorite things to watch. I am also very impressed at how minimal your mixing is. All the moves are important, and nothing is wasted. Thank God you've landed in a creative field, where you clearly are meant to be.
The phrase "I captured my Krackens" was pleasing to hear.
Perhaps a How2 on how exactly we might capture our own Krackens...?
..pop it in the box mate
My favorite bit of advice for mixing is “if it sounds good, it is good.” Don’t worry about doing things the right way, worry about what you think sounds better!
You're "knowledge" is DEAD-ON!!!! I've been doing this for a very long time. There are no rules. You got the result you wanted. Very well done sir.
If it sounds good it is good.
Love how you still remain humble - but this sounds better than most professional mixes.
Thanks for the tips - I think some tutorials on how to actually set up side chains and mix busses may be useful for beginners.
Stay safe, stay metal
we need more of these, bea.
Thank you Bea! Please yeah, do more of this!
Ok, Bea. If you're gonna continue to entertain the thought that you might be doing things wrong, I hope that my mixes will someday sound as wrong as this track does...
If it sounds good to you, and you're happy with it. Then I'm happy too.
Keep doin' you, my man
i love all your vids man and i am soooo happy that you have gone through how you mix i love your approach, thank youuuu and keep em coming dudeeeeee!!!!
That was great to see and hear! More for sure! The was you present your videos are so well articulated.
This was great. I’m still finding my way around. Very helpful.
This is awesome man. It’s interesting to see all the bits that make up a finishing sound. Love it!
Wow Bea. This is pure gold. Thank you
Well, to be the first with this clincher, but if it sounds good, it probably is good. Just goes to show once again! And also good that you show people that you don't need 135 tracks to make a great song. Awesome video, keep these coming please!
I learned a few really cool techniques from this video- Thank you so much, Bea!
You have a great starting point: your ideas and your playing.
Love your live/studio band effect, absolutely on with it.
Thanks for rhe breakdown
Thank you for making this video. This is so helpful to me. Hopefully more of these to come 😄
Definitely love this kind of content. Your end product is great. Big fan of what you do!
Love it !!!!!♥️🔥🔥♥️
Please don't stop doing this kind of videos!!
Incredible mix and video, I've seen so many mixing videos but yours takes the cake.
It's amazing following someone with so much talent and so humble at the same time.
keep doing you
Hey bro, I'm loving your new musicisum course!
Thanks for the tips! Great job!
If it sounds good, it sounds good man. I always like seeing other people’s process. Keep up the great work bea
Thanks for sharing this! What a killer main riff! For the record and when it comes to mixing, there’s no such thing as right or wrong. It’s like cooking because it all comes down to taste. In my ears your mix sounds really awesome - whatever you’re doing it sounds good, really good.🤘🏼
Freakin loved this video....
Nice video Rabea - learned a lot from this. Always enjoy your mixes
Love this dude! Thanks for the breakdown.
Brother...if it sounds good it IS good. Of course, there's always room to grow in our skill. But have no fear. It sounds MASSIVE!
Would love to see more of these!
This is GOLDEN!! Thanks Rabea 🤩
Cool stuff!
Will copy some of your techniques -sounds great!
looking forward to Vol 3 coming out!
Definitely dig this video. Would enjoy more like it. Lots of info and entertaining, thanks!!
Good guitar mix with those crazy drums
Loved it! More videos like this would be great. 😁
Great video! Sounds good to my ear.
Thanks for sharing this process, man! That was fun and informative. I've been trying to learn more about mixing and mastering too, so it's nice to see the thought processes of someone who knows a thing or ten about making great music. Your buddy Mark is also always gracious in fielding my questions and tolerating my dumb humor. Killer track, sounds clear and immenzzzze! Happy holidays to you, Hannah, and Nelly!
Buddy, this was suuuuuuuper helpful. Mix sounds incredible. It's different from the way I've been working, but if the results are awesome...I'm all for it. Thanks, mate!
This mix is superb. You have nothing to worry about. Your unconventional creativity and intuition is probably teaching the ‘experts’ a thing or two!
Been waiting for this! Good to see your workflow and how you go around this subject, awesome! Be good to see you go through your tracking process too. Keep it up dude! Peace ✌🏻
Sounds awesome great mix👍
Love this. Only just started mixing to a decent level and I use a tonne of presets n following my ears. A sound engineer would probably hate my process but it works for me. There’s some awesome stuff in here to take away. Love the guitar processing.
SOOOO DAMN Cooool to see your mix! CRUSHED IT! Thanks for this Rabea! Would LOVE to see more mix breakdown :)
ahhhh I'm so happy you posted this.
I'm ALWAYS interested to see how people mix, in whatever style of music, as there will always be that "Oooooh!" moment when you learn something new/clever which will improve my own mixes. Excellent work, carry on sir!
This was absolutely amazing!!! I would love if you did more of these videos, I’ve always wondered how you got stuff sounding so aggressive
How humble... Bea your awesome man!! Thank u for being u!! Love from Liverpool dude 🤙🏻
Would love to see more videos like this I thought your mixing skills where pretty solid considering the final outcome sounds amazing
Dude your mix sounds great 👍🏻
I asked for this on the last video and you did it! Thanks so much, man!
So refreshing to see a simple mix tutorial
Finally, awesome
thanks for the mixing video, always super interesting! e.g. didn't know about the middle guitar, but it really adds to the track!
I like all your mixes, demo or not, therefore I trust you on this. Hopefully I can grab a thing or two from your tutorial. Those knowledge type info are hard to find nowadays for free. So that is very kind of you sharing your workflow. thanks for this mate!!
Man the things you write and produce are truly inspiring. Everytime I watch you play I want to pick up my axe. Its always something new and original. Don't be so hesitant, you're learning and that's fantastic, what can anyone say? It's the wrong way? Well its sounds good af! Can they lay down the tracks as good as you? Unlikely. All im saying is you're a beast my dude. Cheers!
Great video my friend :D
love this video learned a lot. top fella.
This is super cool I'm trying to figure out how to do simple things thanks for posting this!
There's no wrong way in Mixing Rebea! If it sounds good thats alll that matters.
I am very much an amateur when it comes to recording/mixing/mastering but one thing a friend of mine (with a music technology degree) said to me is, if it sounds good then it is right...! Good job Rabea, love the track.
I've been dying to see you do a mixing video. Great work dude and thanks for the effort. Loving the Nolly Cheat Code EQ. 😂
It sounds awesome!!!! 😈
That opening riff gets me every time.
It’s about time this Vidoe got made by you man. GG
If it sounds good it's perfectly fine no matter how you mixed it! Great job dude!
Very interesting to see your layer work and how you craft your sounds, very helpful!
I'd love to see a mixbreakdown of "Oh My GetGoodness"
Fuck yeah! Finally!
Don't apologise for not mixing 'correctly'. There's so much snobbery around mixing it's unreal. Your videos/songs/demos always sound incredible and I've been wanting to see more mixing videos from you so this is perfect :) Thanks!
This track is sick!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
GG3 has so many bangers
The "right way" to mix is whatever sounds good, and your mix sounded ungodly.
woah dude really
Dynamics....just dynamics.....
@@Charners what about dynamics?
@@mrcoatsworth429 Just. Dy. Nam. Ics.
Amen 💯🤙
Your a great musician
Finally, our prayers were heard. BRB, going to mix some godlike prog.
From someone else who doesn't know what they're doing, I can say this track sounds absolutely awesome!!
Definitely need some kind of breakdown of "In the face of the nameless"! 🤘😈🤘
For me it doesn’t matter how you got there. If it sounds good, it‘s good! And it is very good!
bring on some more vids like these it helped me a lot
This is one of my favourite guitar tones right here. If you are planing on creating some tonex capture of the kraken at some point that would be incredible. Anyways awesome mix!
Trained or not, this was exceptionally helpful. I'd absolutely love to see more of exactly the same thing as you continue your progression, use new gear and try new techniques. Most viewers aren't masters in the studio. While we may how to get a half-good tone in our mix, we are watching this to pick up on any tips, tricks or ideas - like the Aggressive Drummer kit, where, what & how you compressed, before & after, how you tracked your guitar, etc.
End of the day, it sounds fantastic my dude... and this was right when QC came out. I'm surprised this video doesn't have more views considering you were not only demonstrating the quality you can get from the QC but also using captured gear - all before many folks even received their QC in the mail. That's innovation.
Do you by chance have a link to the Kraken cabs you used in here that you'd be willing to share? I have the 2 you posted in cortex but I'm struggling with both of them.
Congrats on your 2023, new sponsors, new signature guitars, and some of the amazing stuff you've been kind enough to share. I've been able to find answers to 99% of my questions about gear all simply by digging thru your posts. It's all absolutely priceless and I seriously hope you continue because I'm definitely not alone in saying that. If I'm wondering about a plugin, pedal or tone, I literally type my question in Google and then at the end, I just type "Rabea" - and I almost always find some great nuggets -
loads of love from Nepallllll !!
Awesome walk through your process and elements, gives me lots to think about and try. 👍🏻 I would also love if you share your thought process on the musical part of the arrangement, i.e. how you considered Verse and Chorus parts and their transitions. 🤟🏻
grande rabea clap clap clap
I'm the same with logic,..tweaking constantly. Great demo Bea!
Amazing mix Rabea! Sounds GIGANTIC! Just a little thing, try the kick/bass sidechain with a multiband compressor that allows sidechain to make space for the kick on the bass only on the freq in which the kick resides, instead of the whole signal of the bass going down. Both things are great, just try both flavors and check what you like more, cheers to all!
Really cool video and very good mix as well, sounds super good. I'd love if you published the stems so that we could try our own mixes or even just practice some of the concepts you covered over the same tracks for reference.
Its so satisfying when I see others use logic
That API-550B just blew me away!!!
That is some seriously sick #ryddm
If it sounds good, it is good. No wrong answers. I fucking LOVE this track!
Dude idk what ur talking abt in the intro... your mixes always sound incredible and you use amazing signal chains
awesome video Rabea. Regarding the fabfilter, I think there may be some confusion, when selecting side, it is performing the corrective action on that element and is not moving the sound to that location. For example if you have side mode selected and have created a 2db cut at 1khz,, it is cutting that 1khz from the sides, leaving the middle. If you want to push the guitar to the sides you would actually want to do a slight cut on the mid so that the sides are now larger in relation. cheers.
i like that uad tape!
my song of the year 2021...heard it just some days ago for the first time...trying to find tabs now :D
Those guitar are tight af!
Thanks for taking us through your mix! That's the thing with music, there isn't a right way of doing anything, as long as it sounds good! Sick playing as always! Do you just adjust levels of tracks by ear or aim for a certain db?
Sounds awesome! Show us how you mix black friday
Hey Rabea, happy new year! :) Would it ever be possible to do a video like this, but "from the top" ? With guitars, mostly? like, how to get up until this point? Do you just record it all, then start tweaking, or do you go along, one track at a time, cause you won't know what's missing until you finish all fillers etc.? Thanks!
If it sounds good, it is good!
Sounds fucking sick Bea! You got shit hot fingers and ears!
What about doing a remix of older tracks/other music etc? I think that would be pretty cool!
Hey my dude, I noticed something with your GGD outputting that threw me off at first too when I started using their kits. When you were showing us the sidechain with the kick I noticed your kick was outputting to channel 1-2 in GGD. In GGD (all their kits) channel 1-2 are dedicated to their parallel comp track and there's no way to change that so the kick should start on channel 3-4 and the snare 5-6 and so on. When you solo'd the kick you can hear the parallel track mixed in, if you put your kick on 3-4 you'll get just the kick
Kick ass mix regardless. Love the Aggressive Kit