Mix Breakdown | The Totemist 'DHW'

[@treyspears913]

PLEASSEEEE DO MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS!

[@markrobertsproducerenginee945]

This is bad ass mate! No need for the caveats either, you are as pro as any mix engineer I know. Everyone has their own way of doing things, no right or wrong! You utterly smashed this, awesome EP, epic production and mixing!!! X

[@AudioJanitor]

Rabea - A Master at musical tension and release The ending...platinum

[@SamuraiMullet]

THIS MIX IS BONKERS!!! give yourself more credit for what you've come up with.

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Agreed! Bea needs to stop saying "this is just what I'm doing, I'm no pro"😁 There are no rules. There is nothing that you should or shouldn't do in mixing. The Beatles revolutionized music production by breaking literally every rule. Every pro mixer is also just doing what they're doing. And after all, the video says mix breakdown, not masterclass. In the end it's like CLA said: If it sounds good, it is good.

[@simonk833]

I love these mix breakdowns. I'm trying to get into it but I've absolutely no idea what I'm doing, so all this stuff is super helpful, thanks (ps Elden Ring playthrough stream please :D)

[@mickfretty8038]

These mixdowns are not only really interesting to watch, but so useful. So many great tips and ideas to steal, um, 'take inspiration from' - yeah, let's go with that 🙃. Loving your work as always Rabea, have a great week bro! 🤘😎🤘

[@shuno_music]

Holy shit!!! Finally a mix breakdown!! I’m so stoked! Haven’t even watched it and I’m destroying the like button and leaving comments. I hope this video does crazy well so we keep getting more.

[@davedavem]

Personally I enjoy the "real" sound of guitars bleeding into the drum mics. Reminds me of old pre-pro-tools recordings and is perfect for the feel of a live-recorded EP.

[@mrcoatsworth429]

This doesn't have anything to do with protools or no protools, though.

[@MATCHLESS789]

Present and ready to learn.

[@TuckerCustomShop]

Thats pretty much all Ive done with the guitars he says. And a piano. Friggin brilliant I says. This is the most kick a$$ stuff I have ever heard. Keep doin what yer doin hommes.!!

[@LTHuman_SSBM]

More videos like this please! It's interesting to see more of you as a producer as well as a guitarist

[@bennyelsensohn9299]

FINALLY! Thank you Rabea! I have waited soooo long for this :D

[@UrbanSelfSufficiency]

I have Presonus Eris E8 XT 8" Active Studio Monitors, so watching this and listening to it through them was a privilege. Thank you.

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Yess I commented a bunch of times about this! Thank you!

[@ledhendrix5054]

Wow very cool Rabea , thats it learn as you go thats how I did it and people give you tips and information along ghe way to. Nice one Rabea you have been an inspiration to me.

[@rossbalch]

Lol at the disclaimer. I feel like all mixing tutorials are just how the person did it, like there's no size fits all, you can't really be wrong if the end result sound good and to your liking. Thanks for making this, I love seeing how different people approach their mix.

[@rossbalch]

Hell yeah, love destroying my drums.

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Agreed! If it sounds good, it is good. And by that logic, this mix is fucking awesome.

[@claytongouin5605]

Really cool and informative to see you break this mix down. It's always educational to see how different people approach the music and the moves they make. Thanks for making this video.

[@MrJaapdeboer]

fantastic song and mix! learned so much from this

[@bennyelsensohn9299]

Amazing! I am really impressed by how fast you improve your mixing game. It would be super interesting if you could do mix breakdowns every now and then in the future. Maybe after 10 new Tracks another mix breakdown just as a journey to see what has changed in your decision making.

[@post-man23]

The mixing is top notch. It’s not overly produced or compressed which I really love. I could also feel all the dynamics which gives me a sense of live performance. As a die hard post-rock fan I really dig and enjoy the ep. Very well done mate.

[@TLKJS]

thanks so much for making this video -- helps starter producers like me so much.. 🙏 but hey, im racking my head around if you guys pulled all this together with or without a click-track, I mean, it's really exceptional timing so great job regardless.

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Superb as always

[@klangor_official]

Great!!! Professor Rabea!

[@adamkollarSOOT]

great approach and results. It was really useful.

[@lincolndaugherty]

I love this EP! Please keep putting these videos out and similar videos about mixing and producing. I'm very interested in knowing how you decided to choose all of those different guitar layers. Thank you so much!

[@MIKELiscrazy]

Thank you for this! I love stuff like this and honestly it has inspired me to go back to some of my old tracks and try a few things in here! The Decap Bus is a MUST!

[@joejordan4246]

Your mixes sound awesome Rabea!! I find them very inspiring, as I've been learning mixing for the last year or so. You ROCK!!!

[@alfiebroom]

Fantastic!

[@deltah_music]

Great Video! THANKS Rabea for the look inside your Mix! Please, more Videos like this 😃🤘

[@geddead5134]

This whole EP is truly sick I really need those bass presets for the QC, seriously

[@thedavegoodman]

Holy smokes! This was truly complex to me. Hats off to you and your analytical ear. I’m not there yet haha 😆

[@dimsoneill]

Loving this!

[@MadkeimMusic]

I hear some QOTSA influence here, I like it! Very cool track and nice breakdown :)

[@JustinBrandNRSIX]

Oh good Lord…this EP is SO good - great mixing on this! Personally I’d love to hear to these three tracks as full quality Wavs rather than Spotify compressing them - Rabea, is this an option anywhere online? Cash waiting…;)

[@7thwave42]

It's available on Rabea's bandcamp page. So it should hopefully have all the format options you'd want.

[@IslamFalmi]

Turn off the audio normalisation feature on Spotify.

[@mandala_skies]

AWESOME!!!

[@kevinneil6196]

This is so sick!! More please, more!!!

[@SpartanLaserCanon]

This is great. Sick song and the tones are amazing as usual with music on albums I have heard from you. Hope your picks keep getting made too since they are my favorite hard ones, even for clean tones with my 8 string.

[@jacobwoodmusic1109]

Loved this vid Bea! You should definitely do some more mix rundowns of your other tuuuuuunes 👍

[@NikeStoyan]

This is a very informational video for all of us to see some guide lines and general mixing process, please do more of these as it's interesting to analyze all these moves. My only question is: How do you play LIVE all of this - are you using backing tracks or are you playing a more stripped down version of the song?

[@guitarstand]

Awesome! I need more from this!! ;) Great! thank you for this video!

[@BCarpenter2314]

This is way above my pay-grade, but I can certainly appreciate the time you spent on it! Sounds great 👍

[@blue_mountains28]

Thanks for doing this, is really cool to see how you approach mixing... just for the info on the drum mixing alone this was amazing. the trash / decapitated drum bus. I'm so going to try this!

[@davedavem]

I listen to this EP so much! It's truly epic. Would love a lesson video of the main guitar parts 🙌

[@Hairyloft]

Total class, thanks Rabea

[@_thaaatguy]

More of this, pleaseeee!!!

[@cortical1]

Great walk-through on a killer tune, man! You have some seriously good mixing skills. Hope all is well.

[@kesis2203]

OMG those drums sounds immense!

[@graybronze]

Nice breakdown man, great to see your process. How about the final master bus? As in did you have any compression, tape saturation etc or just mixed it flat and left the extra dynamics for the mastering?

[@felixlausch]

Thanks Rabea! This is super helpful! :)

[@yannso1o681]

We.Want.MORE !!!!

[@AndyBassist]

That is 100% my kind of bass sound Rabea! Utter filth!! The whole Ep is awesome! Did you get any behind the scenes footage would love to have seen the process on the day

[@LykaonMetalMusic]

Thanks for the Video! There you see it again just slightly changes on the guitars!

[@kinga428]

2880 is great !!!

[@1siriuswolf]

Absolutely fuckin brilliant! I'd love to put vocals to these wicked songs. Cheers from across the pond 👽

[@tierankarb]

itd be cool to see a vlog apporach to a song coming from you!! since you went to a studio, it'd be cool to get a glimpse into the process of drum placement, mics, cabs and stuff, y'know?

[@mrh5020]

Hey Rabea, Just listened to all three tracks on amazon, awesome.. controlled feedback reminds me on godflesh and I love the tempo changes.. just needs a singer or someone to drone in the background, most of the sing notes are being played,, you could do that! Really Great Job!!!

[@famigeratox2277]

Great video man! What's on your master bus?

[@jamesbrady3180]

Killer song. Great video as well, I always love seeing the creative process. I was wondering what your doing on the master bus and if you start the mix with those plug ins on or add them after you feel your mix is in a good place. Thanks man! Great job as always.

[@papakefis4252]

We Want MOOOOREEEE !!!

[@fedecastrogiovanni]

Hey Rabea! I loved this mix breakdown and saw the live session a lot.. really good stuff, thanks for sharing! I want to ask you a question about eq, I saw that you are using pro q 3 for the guitars but also I noticed that the eq native for the logic pro channels are active too... so I mean, are there the pro q 3 and channels native eq on? how they work together? are they in the same eq cutting low freq? thanks!

[@adriengalster715]

Rabea we need more quad cortex tone !! Can you share your preset please I want your totemist guitar tone 😩

[@blue_mountains28]

😋 came back to watch this again.... Not sure you'll see this question? But I'll ask any ways. The thickening guitar tracks and all the layers of guitars with different tones playing the same thing..... are you playing each one of these guitar tracks individually?

[@aaronvansichem]

You mixed this?? No reason to be modest my dude ;) you did an amazing job!

[@manuthedev]

Amazing man! I was looking around and can't seem to find it; who's the artist that made the album cover? Thanks!

[@otnima]

Hi Rabea, Great work on the mix it sounds sick ! I've got a few questions. I see you have a few things going on on the master bus. Did you apply these once you were satisfied with the overall mix or have them from the start and mix from the top-down ? I know Nolly sometimes does this. Did you keep all the master effects before sending it off to be mastered or remove some stuff ? And who mastered the EP ? ^^

[@florisbackx1744]

25:30 Tunneling his inner Karnivool, hahaha. Who needs heavy metal tones if you got a bad ass basstone? Will always sound small in comparison to the bass.

[@josecarloscervantes4681]

Hi Rabea : )

[@Gnotestudios]

Master Bus signal chain pleeeze!

[@electricwhiterabbit]

What about your master buss? Did you master it yourself with anything or did you have someone master it for you?

[@KRayxKodessA]

The layering is very .... Incubus-y. Dig.

[@johngiuca9933]

Hey Rabea. In my opinion the song sounds like it loses energy when the bass is side chained to the kick. I feel the bass is driving that section and loses its momentum during the compression. Love your stuff, Respect

[@adamplaza3935]

I keep hearing him say „I’m no professional“ Dunno how it could get more 😅😅 I think at a certain level it gets just different not better as peak- quality.

[@satch72]

This is great, thank you. When you've got this many layers of guitars what's the trick to keeping them from getting mushy?

[@RabeaMassaad]

Thanks! The trick is manage the low end. So I cut a lot out of the guitars so they didn’t get too mushy. Less is more, with gain as well

[@TheCoronaMortis]

As an absolute noob with mixing, whats the benefit on using a bus?

[@ronikinnunen298]

You can do processing for multiple different channels at once without using multiple instances of the same plugin(s). That way you save processing power and it's just neater overall.

[@LORDSOFFORM]

How about a bit of info about mics used? I presume this was in Brighton Electric?

[@Silverwidows]

Are you playing with frog leap studios in dec?

[@RabeaMassaad]

Of course! Can’t wait :)

[@bennyelsensohn9299]

Rabea i am interested in your Guitar Bus and routing. Do you track wet with FX (Delay, Reverb) or do you apply them on a seperate Bus? Or maybe both. But on this EP you have this really roomy sound on guitars and since you recorded via Quad Cortex, did you use a Room Reverb on a Bus? It sounds so natural and has no Tail but yet it is so distant on certain parts, especially the intro of Roast Hoast

[@digital360]

Do you feel the need to add compression and/or limiting on any distorted guitar tracks? If so at what stage, recording/mixing/mastering? Thanks!

[@ScottChesworth]

Marvellousness. The fake drum room was the biggest surprise here. Out of interest, who mastered the EP?

[@TheGetawayMan]

When is Rabeard making his next appearance?

[@slash196]

What's the bass you tracked?

[@RabeaMassaad]

As in what bass did I use? I have an old Warwick corvette proline with Dmarzio jazz pickups in it.

[@slash196]

@@RabeaMassaad Thanks! Such a great sound but not easy to identify like a P bass would be.

[@electricmeatpuppet]

This was really cool to see Rabea! Amazing job mate. Been absolutely loving the Totemist stuff. Really hoping there's more on the horizon! :)

[@iwillspam5985]

Man thanks for this, really helpful