Dude, I had Cubase open on one screen, and your video on another screen, and I just followed along. A lot of those plugins I've never used, but there are native Cubase plugins that function similarly enough. I was skeptical because I have no experience using these plugins, some I'm only vaguely sure of what they actually do, but I did it. Over 3 hours, I kept pausing your video and making adjustments to my mix, and I think you finally unlocked something for me. This is the modern pop punk sound I was going for!
this guide is pure gold! i was struggling while mixing the tracks for my album, and this really helped me a lot! now they sound much cleaner and professional!
I've had a general Idea of mixing, but didn't know any of the fundamentals or pro tips that could help. My mix just went from dog water to brilliance after watching and referring to your video. Mean this a lot, thank you. This was super helpful and a great start for me to develop my music!
Thank you for explaining sidechaning in a simple manner. Been trying to find out what it does and why it's useful for ages. I would love to see you mix some pop punk vocals as well! And even some videos on mastering would be awesome too. You're guiding me in the direction of great sound. Thank you so much, bro! ♥
Of course homie! Added a pop punk vocal mixing video to my list! Make sure to subscribe so you get notified when it’s out. Let me know if you have any questions
Hey dude! Great, great video. I'm on a long (seemingly unending) journey to get a repeatable workflow to consistently get my mixes closer to production so I can release my own stuff more regularly. Your video was really informative and had some cool techniques/plugins I hadn't considered. I'm gonna be workshopping this thing to try and replicate in Logic or Ableton soon as a project. Appreciate all your help!
Thanks homie! Remember mixing is only the last 25%, at least in my opinion. Editing and the elements of the song come first! Glad you enjoyed the video
I generally agree with you. I'm working on that too LOL. @@PetexZen The stuff I've released thus far (Letters From Suburbia) I have paid some music friends to mix and master I'm just trying to be more self-sufficient and I have a fair amount of equipment, plugins, computer power, etc., to do it. Just need to put it all together consistently.
Loved the tutorial!! Is everything left in the center or do you pan certain instruments ? If so what formula do you use ? Guitars, bass, drums.. Toms.. and when recording live instruments do you record in mono or stereo ? Thanks again
Hey homie, every song is different, but anything double tracked I usually hard pan. I record in mono most of the time, but if I'm running a stereo pedal like chorus or delay then I'll record in stereo. Thanks homie!
I have never stumbled across a TH-cam channel and felt this "happy" for it. Your videos are killer! And, your music and personality are awesome. Keep on Rockin'. Can I ask you a question? Love your guitar tone. I know you use both Amplitube and Pedals. But, when using Amplitube, how do you "gain stage" your audio interface. I can't seem to get a single good tone in Amplitube. I try to set the "gain" on my interface so the input signal lands around -12 to -6db. And you don't happen to have any presets for Amplitube on that fantastic Pop/Punk to share? =) Sorry for asking a question or questions in the comments. Anyhow, came to say that your music and the videos are awesome!
Sorry I missed this comment! So glad you dig my videos! As long as my DI isn’t clipping going in I’m happy haha gain staging isn’t my strongest skill but my presets in amplitube match my preset on my interface so at some point I did dial it in. I guess my best advice is spend some time trying different levels and see what combinations you like and keep tweaking your presets until you have a solid sound that you can open up and get writing to!
How is your routing set for get good drums? Are your levels within the plug-in set to the default base levels? Thanks man. Great video. You deserve a lot of views for this one.
Thanks homie, so the levels in GGD are definitely massaged a bit, I usually like to push the snare kick rack and floor pretty hard into the room mics. Otherwise everything else is pretty straight. No turbo on anything, maybe a bit less cymbals in the rooms for this. But honestly depends on the vibe of the band
Hey nate, I hope im not hidden for long haha if you had to get ONE plugin that would change your entire world it would be PRO q 3, not only is it a great transparent eq but it has some dynamic compression features as well. AND since you can solo out frequency changes you can actually hear what youre adjusting. Before I got that plugin I felt like I was mixing a little bit blind no matter what plugins I was using. But i will say doing a lot of low and high cutting and general leveling will get you 90% of the way there in my opinion. So trust your ears and really learn to MASSAGE the mix. Thats the biggest tip I can give you with mixing with stock plugins, best of luck homie!
sup d00d! great vid! just wondering, if you're using Superior Drummer 3 are any other midi-based drum kits, do you route each drum to your daw and mix that way? or do you mix within the plugin you have your kit in? they seem to have EQ, compressors etc. already on each drum but might not match with your song... what would you recommend here?
Great video! I tried to get the Xstressor but it seems they replaced it with the XComp compressor. Any experience with this one? Is it as good as the Xstressor and worth buying? Thanks!!!!!
Its different everytime I mix, I dont even use trigger anymore, but Usually like 25-50% is good, that way you dont lose too much dynamics! @@ericcorriveau8482
As a drummer working on my own production I struggle with using a sample over my kick (or any hit). What are your thoughts of instead sending your kick/snare/toms to a second track for parallel compression? I am definitely facing my kick not punching through a mix with my current mic setup, so something is needed.
Parallel compression on close mics can be super cool, but in my experience it doesn't directly compare to sample reinforcement - they are different techniques that provide different results and advantages/disadvantages. Parallel compression can boost the body/fullness of the drum sound and increase the ambience already captured in the mics, while maintaining some of the natural uncompressed transients. However, along with increased ambience comes increased bleed. This can be good or bad, depending on what your mics are capturing and what you want the end result to sound like. Sample reinforcement on the other hand, doesn't affect the original sound of your mics - it only adds to it (or subtracts - watch that phase correlation!). I would think of it this way - are your mics capturing sounds that you like, and you want to enhance that sound? Try parallel compression. Are your mics capturing the core sound, but you're struggling with cymbal bleed and a less-than-stellar room sound when processing your mics? Try sample reinforcement.
Dude! I've tried on my own to make a mix following your steps, but the drums sounds weird because i'm using the free version of Trigger2 with the free samples, the Kick and Snare samples you added are from the full version or where can i get those? Awesome video, big hug from Argentina!
These drums were programmed but usually what I do is I’ll record drums then use Massey drt to create phase accurate midi notes to trigger samples. Thanks for watching! Glad you dig it.
@@PetexZen isn’t the point of oversampling to eliminate digital fizz? That’s the sound of dated guitar sims every hates. Other than that pretty good mix lol
i wanna pay you to not only fix my mixes but to be able to just follow along because i love being able to do things and hearing what i thought was a 'decent' or on the way mix, then to this i was like nope jk haha.
Hey, I noticed you don't compress your overheads which I'm curious about; Do you find that NOT compressing the overheads allows the attack from the cymbals to come through more? That's something I struggle with in my mixes. I found that when I do compress the overheads, It ends up working too much on the snare and toms more rather than the cymbals, giving them more of an unwanted click.
I usually dont compress my overheads, but I do compress my drum bus a ton and then mess with the mix knob. So they do end up getting compressed as a whole, but yeah I usually keep my cymbals pretty untouched. Sometimes you want the snare and kick and toms peaking through untouched in the overheads just too keep everything sounding a bit more natural. Now CRUSHINGGGGG the room mics can be really fun, try that out! Thanks for watching!
Sounds good! Thanks a lot for your response. Makes total sense. Also, how do you record your overheads? Do you use a spaced pair technique, with two small diaphram condensers?@@PetexZen
Every eq has different characteristics! I like the top shelf on the ssl eq, I think of pro q 3 as more corrective eq and console eq as flavor eq. Thanks for watching homie!
Thanks homie! Yeah totally a preference, in my mind I think of it like there is so much shine on everything else going on in this specific track, samples are a nice static element to layer in to help the drums fit better to this mix. Atleast to me, I know you get a killer live drum sound though, so if it was your drums in here I wouldn’t dare put samples on them haha
RBass literally does nothing than adding harmonics, which remind your ears and your brain on lower frequencies, so your brain is adding low information to the sound. So you can tell the difference on nearly every speaker, because it's just in your head.
I think knowing the reasoning behind mixing choices is more important than copying someone’s settings, it’s a lot to cover. Also the full mix is in the beginning, if you need a reference. Mixing 100% from isolated tracks isn’t a good move in my opinion
i've found you, lets pop punk together!
Anytime homie, let’s go!
can i follow ur instagram?@@PetexZen
loh ada bg hafizh
I found you!
Easily the best pop punk mixing guide I've ever seen, wish I saw this before mixing my EP! Thanks for the video!
The most important mixing video on the internet
Hahaha thanks homie
Heeeyyy look who’s here!
ive watched a lotttt of mix videos before and this is one of the best ive seen. super simple and crazy useful
Dude, I had Cubase open on one screen, and your video on another screen, and I just followed along. A lot of those plugins I've never used, but there are native Cubase plugins that function similarly enough. I was skeptical because I have no experience using these plugins, some I'm only vaguely sure of what they actually do, but I did it. Over 3 hours, I kept pausing your video and making adjustments to my mix, and I think you finally unlocked something for me. This is the modern pop punk sound I was going for!
this guide is pure gold! i was struggling while mixing the tracks for my album, and this really helped me a lot! now they sound much cleaner and professional!
Great to Hear! glad you dig the vid!
I was not expecting this kind of high quality content from such a small channel, you crushed it man. Glad i found you, keep at it!
Thanks homie I will!
I've had a general Idea of mixing, but didn't know any of the fundamentals or pro tips that could help. My mix just went from dog water to brilliance after watching and referring to your video. Mean this a lot, thank you. This was super helpful and a great start for me to develop my music!
Thank you for explaining sidechaning in a simple manner. Been trying to find out what it does and why it's useful for ages. I would love to see you mix some pop punk vocals as well! And even some videos on mastering would be awesome too. You're guiding me in the direction of great sound. Thank you so much, bro! ♥
Of course homie! Added a pop punk vocal mixing video to my list! Make sure to subscribe so you get notified when it’s out. Let me know if you have any questions
Hey dude! Great, great video. I'm on a long (seemingly unending) journey to get a repeatable workflow to consistently get my mixes closer to production so I can release my own stuff more regularly. Your video was really informative and had some cool techniques/plugins I hadn't considered. I'm gonna be workshopping this thing to try and replicate in Logic or Ableton soon as a project. Appreciate all your help!
Thanks homie! Remember mixing is only the last 25%, at least in my opinion. Editing and the elements of the song come first! Glad you enjoyed the video
I generally agree with you. I'm working on that too LOL. @@PetexZen The stuff I've released thus far (Letters From Suburbia) I have paid some music friends to mix and master I'm just trying to be more self-sufficient and I have a fair amount of equipment, plugins, computer power, etc., to do it. Just need to put it all together consistently.
Sounds like modern State Champs. Love the production tips!!
Brother, you deserve a million subscribers! The final result sounds amazing! Great video!
Thanks homie!! I really appreciate that
god I love this vid... I've literally used it 10+ times in the last couple weeks just to reference while mixing. You're the man.
Not gonna lie, this was a really good video on mixing pop punk! Really good tips.
thank you homie! Ill have another video up on tuesday
I’m so glad I found you before you’re huge on here. Love your energy and personality. And how quick you get to the magic
Wow thanks homie! Glad you dig the videos 🤘
Amazing tutorial! One of the best online! Good job!
Awesome video man! I like your sound since Hang Tight recordings. So glad I’ve seen you live in Prague a couple years ago.
Hell yeah thanks for sticking with me homie!
Thank you, bro!!!This is truly what I have always wanted.
Of course homie! Let me know if you have any questions
Hey man, fan here from Picture Perfect days. Glad to see you here!
Dang!! An OG. Ya man, getting back on my TH-cam stuff! Been doing a lot of producing/writing for artists these days.
damn, i've watched a lot of mixing guides. but your results sounds so high quality. great work
Thanks homie!
This is mad helpful for someone who’s exploring producing in this genre! Keep them coming bro‼️
LOVED the production tips. You got more videos of that kind of stuff?
Love the video! Thank you for sharing. What kit from Modern & Massive are you using?
Loved the tutorial!! Is everything left in the center or do you pan certain instruments ? If so what formula do you use ? Guitars, bass, drums.. Toms.. and when recording live instruments do you record in mono or stereo ? Thanks again
Hey homie, every song is different, but anything double tracked I usually hard pan. I record in mono most of the time, but if I'm running a stereo pedal like chorus or delay then I'll record in stereo. Thanks homie!
this video rules, more mixing tutorials pls
Will do! Thanks homie.
More please. A course for pop-punk production would also be great. Reasonably priced hopefully.
Thanks bro! Absolute killer vid!
I have never stumbled across a TH-cam channel and felt this "happy" for it. Your videos are killer! And, your music and personality are awesome. Keep on Rockin'.
Can I ask you a question? Love your guitar tone. I know you use both Amplitube and Pedals. But, when using Amplitube, how do you "gain stage" your audio interface. I can't seem to get a single good tone in Amplitube. I try to set the "gain" on my interface so the input signal lands around -12 to -6db. And you don't happen to have any presets for Amplitube on that fantastic Pop/Punk to share? =)
Sorry for asking a question or questions in the comments. Anyhow, came to say that your music and the videos are awesome!
Sorry I missed this comment! So glad you dig my videos! As long as my DI isn’t clipping going in I’m happy haha gain staging isn’t my strongest skill but my presets in amplitube match my preset on my interface so at some point I did dial it in. I guess my best advice is spend some time trying different levels and see what combinations you like and keep tweaking your presets until you have a solid sound that you can open up and get writing to!
Great job man!
Very cool.
How is your routing set for get good drums? Are your levels within the plug-in set to the default base levels?
Thanks man. Great video. You deserve a lot of views for this one.
Thanks homie, so the levels in GGD are definitely massaged a bit, I usually like to push the snare kick rack and floor pretty hard into the room mics. Otherwise everything else is pretty straight. No turbo on anything, maybe a bit less cymbals in the rooms for this. But honestly depends on the vibe of the band
@@PetexZen dude thank you for getting back so quick!!!
This sounds freaking great man!!
Can you show what kit pieces you used in GGD? I love this and want to try it myself, but I can’t tell what pieces are what in your kit
You are awesome..please make more videos🙏🏻you're tips & tricks are bang on the buck🔥
Thanks! I will 🤘make sure to subscribe!
This was great bud. Really appreciate all the intel
sick - thank you very much!
Very cool brother, congratulations, thank you!!! By suggestion, can you make a video about the mastering?
I’ll do a mix bus video sometime! Thanks for watching homie
Best hidden channel on youtube. Handsdown What do i need to do to get video exactly like this but mixing with just stock plugins!?
Hey nate, I hope im not hidden for long haha if you had to get ONE plugin that would change your entire world it would be PRO q 3, not only is it a great transparent eq but it has some dynamic compression features as well. AND since you can solo out frequency changes you can actually hear what youre adjusting. Before I got that plugin I felt like I was mixing a little bit blind no matter what plugins I was using. But i will say doing a lot of low and high cutting and general leveling will get you 90% of the way there in my opinion. So trust your ears and really learn to MASSAGE the mix. Thats the biggest tip I can give you with mixing with stock plugins, best of luck homie!
Dude, this video is gold! Where can I listen to this awesome song?
Thanks homie, it’s not out yet, still working it out with the artist. Glad you dig the video!
@@PetexZen I’ll be waiting for it! This is exactly the style of music I produce and I loved the sound. I also use Seb’s samples and they rock!
tbh this sounds like neck deep's ADAI mix 🔥🔥 btw SB stand for Seb Barlow right? 😅
Nice! And ya he sent me his one shots awhile ago, they are cool blended in.
you are just a ball of energy 😂
@@JohnnysaidWhat yaaaa buddyyyy
Awesome.......❤❤❤
Interested in your soothe 2 setup
I’ll drop the preset in the description tomorrow, thanks for watching!
Just added the preset to the soothe 2 drum bus in the description of the video! enjoy!
@@PetexZen thanks a lot mate......cheeers
Sounds awesome, man! What drum samples do you use in this project?
thanks homie, modern and massive get good drums
@@PetexZen thanks man!
sup d00d! great vid! just wondering, if you're using Superior Drummer 3 are any other midi-based drum kits, do you route each drum to your daw and mix that way? or do you mix within the plugin you have your kit in? they seem to have EQ, compressors etc. already on each drum but might not match with your song... what would you recommend here?
I thought you were mixing the bridge part of ¨teenage dirtbag¨ by Weathus . LOL . Cool video BTW !!
Great video! I tried to get the Xstressor but it seems they replaced it with the XComp compressor. Any experience with this one? Is it as good as the Xstressor and worth buying? Thanks!!!!!
I love the xstressor! I use it all the time
Nice! Subbed at “Kickflips on stage” 😅🤜🤛
Great, great job !! Are these multitracks available somewhere ?
I dont because this is an unreleased track for a client, thanks for watching homie!
Gotcha ! Great song !! By the way, I am curious about the mix nob pourcentages on trigger 2 for the kick & snare ? @@PetexZen
Its different everytime I mix, I dont even use trigger anymore, but Usually like 25-50% is good, that way you dont lose too much dynamics!
@@ericcorriveau8482
As a drummer working on my own production I struggle with using a sample over my kick (or any hit). What are your thoughts of instead sending your kick/snare/toms to a second track for parallel compression? I am definitely facing my kick not punching through a mix with my current mic setup, so something is needed.
Parallel compression on close mics can be super cool, but in my experience it doesn't directly compare to sample reinforcement - they are different techniques that provide different results and advantages/disadvantages. Parallel compression can boost the body/fullness of the drum sound and increase the ambience already captured in the mics, while maintaining some of the natural uncompressed transients. However, along with increased ambience comes increased bleed. This can be good or bad, depending on what your mics are capturing and what you want the end result to sound like. Sample reinforcement on the other hand, doesn't affect the original sound of your mics - it only adds to it (or subtracts - watch that phase correlation!).
I would think of it this way - are your mics capturing sounds that you like, and you want to enhance that sound? Try parallel compression. Are your mics capturing the core sound, but you're struggling with cymbal bleed and a less-than-stellar room sound when processing your mics? Try sample reinforcement.
Dude! I've tried on my own to make a mix following your steps, but the drums sounds weird because i'm using the free version of Trigger2 with the free samples, the Kick and Snare samples you added are from the full version or where can i get those? Awesome video, big hug from Argentina!
Thanks homie! I used the seb barlow one shot pack, but I do often use steven slate kick 10 and snare 10 through trigger 2, try those out as well!
@@PetexZen Gonna try those then!! It's the very first time my drums sound similar to modern Travis Barker, you are the best my man!!!
nice 3D low end with dat serum 808 sub bass! wonder if you can share that preset with us :)
Thanks homie, I think it was a preset I found through splice!
got it!@@PetexZen
dude this is bread thanks
No problem! A good compressor and pro q by fab filter will bring you a long way! Thanks for watching homie
dope
nice job dude! do you record the drums in phase to the snare or does it not matter because of the samples?
These drums were programmed but usually what I do is I’ll record drums then use Massey drt to create phase accurate midi notes to trigger samples. Thanks for watching! Glad you dig it.
Thx a lot! ✌️
adding digital fizz is craaaaaaazy
Devil loc is also sick!
@@PetexZen isn’t the point of oversampling to eliminate digital fizz? That’s the sound of dated guitar sims every hates. Other than that pretty good mix lol
@@xlilxillx depends on the song/band/genre
You should display your kontakt libraries you use.
Where did you get the drum samples you blended in from?
Can you please explain why each kit is used in the GGD modern and massive?
Sick mix! What's the name of the song?
How do you make GGD have each drum as a separate channel?
Killer mix! What snare sample is used here? I cant find it in Slate libraries! 💟💟
Think I used the seb Barlow one shot with the get good drums modern and massive kit. But snare 10 in slate is great!
Oh hey PetexZen now that you're telling us how to mix pop punk, could I get a copy of Fabfilter off you bro?
Do you think it's a good idea instead of adding a sample to snare and kick adding the knock plugin for modern punk or no?
I’ve never tried that plug-in! But trust your ears! If it sounds good it sounds good!
Basically the knock plugin is a clipper and you can add punch and saturation to drums
i wanna pay you to not only fix my mixes but to be able to just follow along because i love being able to do things and hearing what i thought was a 'decent' or on the way mix, then to this i was like nope jk haha.
Yeah man shoot me an email! Let’s work!
Hey, I noticed you don't compress your overheads which I'm curious about; Do you find that NOT compressing the overheads allows the attack from the cymbals to come through more? That's something I struggle with in my mixes. I found that when I do compress the overheads, It ends up working too much on the snare and toms more rather than the cymbals, giving them more of an unwanted click.
I usually dont compress my overheads, but I do compress my drum bus a ton and then mess with the mix knob. So they do end up getting compressed as a whole, but yeah I usually keep my cymbals pretty untouched. Sometimes you want the snare and kick and toms peaking through untouched in the overheads just too keep everything sounding a bit more natural. Now CRUSHINGGGGG the room mics can be really fun, try that out! Thanks for watching!
Sounds good! Thanks a lot for your response. Makes total sense. Also, how do you record your overheads? Do you use a spaced pair technique, with two small diaphram condensers?@@PetexZen
Hi, great video. I was wondering why do you use SSL EQ in addition to the regular one? Why can't the regular one just handle it?
Every eq has different characteristics! I like the top shelf on the ssl eq, I think of pro q 3 as more corrective eq and console eq as flavor eq. Thanks for watching homie!
Got it, that makes sense, thank you!
Next, how to mix metalcore
It’s coming!
What are you using for the 90s sounding beats?
Splice!
It sounds a bit like it‘s „lacking“ a bit of high mids, is that to leave room for a potential singer or just the style of the music?
I tend to like fatter mixes, but when I go to master I usually add some highs and lows.
Are those sebs drum samples?
Shout out to 'Birds' 🤘
Dude that entire record sounds so good
@@PetexZen ya underrated for sure. Benson strikes again!
Duuuudddeeee i need the name of the song
nice job! two cents here: I think you could have achieved this 100% without those samples. they aren't adding any discernible value imo.
Thanks homie! Yeah totally a preference, in my mind I think of it like there is so much shine on everything else going on in this specific track, samples are a nice static element to layer in to help the drums fit better to this mix. Atleast to me, I know you get a killer live drum sound though, so if it was your drums in here I wouldn’t dare put samples on them haha
What DAW is this? I’m a noob
Protools! I suggest cubase though, much easier to use.
This is good, but gonna cost you 1000s - absolute no stock plug ins😆
In case anyone is reading the comments before the video starts, bring the volume down because his new mix has a huge increase in volume.
2:00 and first mistake broooo
smh should have said "first point is i hit puberty yesterday"
no how am i suppose to have faith in this without that level of immaturity?
Never mind he;s in the same room with about 15,000$ worth of gear *Cough*Richkid*Cough*
RBass literally does nothing than adding harmonics, which remind your ears and your brain on lower frequencies, so your brain is adding low information to the sound. So you can tell the difference on nearly every speaker, because it's just in your head.
You: if you follow someone then you mix will be sounding dull.
Also you: showing your way to mix.
Conclusion: your mix sounding dull either)
It’s crazy how I constantly tried to skip around just to hear music or instruments and all I got was you talking over and over and over
I think knowing the reasoning behind mixing choices is more important than copying someone’s settings, it’s a lot to cover. Also the full mix is in the beginning, if you need a reference. Mixing 100% from isolated tracks isn’t a good move in my opinion
Wtf kind of stupid comment is this? His input is very much needed