Mixing My Latest Single ‘ARRIVAL’

[@RabeaMassaad]

Hope you all find this helpful! I’ve added chapters so you can jump around to the most relevant bits for you. Thanks again for the kind words on the mix and requests for this video ;)

[@BEEFSERPENT]

kinda look like jason newsted

[@brandangullison4989]

my major guitar idol is Rabea massad

[@coryyoung1876]

Hey, just to let you know when demonstrating the kicks, you've actually inverted the polarity and put the kicks out of phase. You can tell because when you flip the polarity in P5, you loose all of the upper bass and it sounds very hollow, though the sub is accentuated a touch

[@jonathanross1033]

These are the best! Thank you! Helps build confidence in recording

[@brandangullison4989]

Rabea. I have a problem I need to solve and I need ur assistance. what I now use to record my guitar is my open iPhone mic monitor in GarageBand , a 12A TUBE guitar amp and it all sounds sh**ty I’m still dying trying to get a goood sound will I be dead trying to accomplish this?

[@joshmingee]

I love the death guitar section. funnily enough I was using your plug in yesterday and shifting an octave down for a meshuggah inspired section, but you just showed me tthe in plugin eq I was missing. Thank you so much for all you do

[@willitsynthwave]

You're the best man. So crazy talented, but you also seem so humble and genuine. Love everything you share with us.

[@ThisIsMarsMusic]

Super useful, Bea! By the way, I learned a lot from your DHW Totemist mix breakdown from two years ago (probably watched it over 30 times while producing my own stuff). Now, it's great to watch you gain more confidence in your mixing skills with this new one!

[@GuitarKid581]

Im so glad to see that other big players in the industry approach mixing just by ear. I've been self producing my own band after years of telling myself i cant because "i dont know what im doing". Finally i just said screw it and started. Im pretty pleased with the sound of our newest songs, but i guarantee if you open my mix sessions there are things i didnt need to do or easier ways to get the same effect. But i've learned to let go of caring about that. I've learned to mix in my own space and how to get a sound im pleased with and can expand upon, and im having fun doing it.

[@joshuajackson4357]

What's your band called dude?! Would love to check out some of your stuff

[@larswillsen]

Its great to watch real-life players / mixes - After a stroke I can only really do my stuff alone and in my own speed using virtual instruments ... people tell me that I do an OK job simulating and re-recording all my 30+ year old tracks. I also learn as I go watching video's like this :-)

[@JamesUnityFuchs]

sounds fantastic......you are the vibe king

[@ovivan79]

Love this! So much great stuff you are sharing here. Thank you! I find it interesting with all the available compressors you'd likely have (UAD Complete at the very least I assume) you still chose Smash&Grab and the Logic Compressor for the Bass side-chain compression. It just shows how good most of the plug-ins have become these days and it's just a matter of finding what works for the situation. Love your clean and simple session and approach.

[@ovivan79]

Oh, and the song has been on heavy rotation in my car since its release. :)

[@ismaelserpa]

Yeah!!! Thanks Rabea, this is incredible 👊🏻

[@aaronfrye1195]

Thank you Rabea for this song and this breakdown. Although I’m a simple home recording guitarist, this is where I’d love to be with my mixes. Time to study. Cheers.

[@renevanderbruggen731]

Thanks thanks thanks - Rabea - this is a great vid !! Love the way how you’ve mixed this great track. It’s clean, tight and snappy - very well done !!

[@ianarsenault]

Wow that's super cool, interesting to see how doubling up the drum samples made the sound so much fuller.

[@papakefis4252]

Well done Bea!! Thanks again for another awesome video!!! Keep on doing that!!!🙏♥️🤘

[@cbsaulren]

It's cool to see someone with a great sound go through their process, and it's quite comforting to know it's very similar to my own. I have never had any formal recording training, but I love doing all my own work. Each time I think it could be better, but that's a good reason to keep trying. Thanks Bea

[@NikeStoyan]

I love how chill these videos are. It's nice to see some tips always. So yeah, Bea, don't hesitate to make this format as possible as it could be.

[@digital360]

Lots more of these please! Your mixes sound great

[@chrischeetham2659]

Yes!! I had a go at covering this + mixing with reference to your version because I love the low end sound you achieved in this mix. It's so good! Looking forward to watching this one

[@t.henricus9971]

Great track Rabea and thank you for walking us through your mix!

[@BradMiller007]

Incredible song Rabea!!!!! Great masterclass of a masterpiece. I love hearing you play more lead on your recent tracks.

[@LifeHawkeye]

Thank you for doing this Rabea! I love every bit of your content!

[@us3r11]

Thank you very much for this walkthrough. I am inspired to work on my mixes from a different perspective.

[@garethwright476]

Thank you Rabea, this has really opened up a lot of ideas for me. Epic

[@kevinneil6196]

YES! YES! YES!

[@luisgeronimomarquezparra8990]

Wow loved the song, great beat!

[@trevorstine5732]

The mix and song as a whole sound awesome man!

[@Curt-Mitchell]

This sounds killer. Thanks for the explanation! GGD trick really cool.

[@LucasMastropasqua]

I love these mix breakdowns! Thanks for giving us all an inside look at your approach and techniques. Always some awesome ideas in these to try in my own mixes. 🤘🤘🤘

[@jorgneffke6663]

Thanks so much for giving us some insights into your track. So much new ideas and inspiration...

[@ilovegreenock]

Great video 👍 as usual you show us all those details in an educational way thanks very much!

[@pbonemanband]

Me as one man band. I really appreciated the mixing details. Thank you Rabea!!!

[@kimmis15]

Thanks for this blessing Rabea

[@TheTrafficJamMusic]

Melodic, Spacial, patient. Love it! 👌🏼🙌🏼

[@Morroh]

Love this man, thanks for sharing! I found the parts about the small hidden synth bits really insightful. They add a nice subtle energy that gives the song just a bit more movement. Kinda of like a modern shaker/tambourine track. Iv always avoided side chaining the kick and bass because I thought it was more of an EDM production move, really works here though. If it works it works. The synth features on your plugin actually look really inspiring to play with, I’ll have to check it out.

[@jimmyr1888]

Very informative man, thank you for this. You’re so much better at it than you think, which seems obvious to us and less so to you for some reason. Just so much all around talent impresses the hell out of me time after time. From a fellow drummer/guitarist…

[@patchansky]

Amazing stuff ! Thanks, master Rabea!

[@JayJayStudios1]

Love your work Rabea! About Soothe 2 you mentioned in the Master Bus: It is kind of AI yes, but also not as far as I know. It is officially a "Resonance Surpressor", meaning it intelligently tries to surpress overshooting frequencies. It can go a lot in detail, but it is similar to an dynamic EQ or MultibandCompressor, but it is more intelligent. It doesn't really have fixed values, besides the one you see in the GUI. Gullfoss is very similar to this, but somehow it does it different hence the different sound. I normally use Gullfoss on the Master and Soothe on singular tracks. But whatever works and sounds good! 👍 Be aware guys, lots of the plugins on the Masterchain actually make it louder (which always sounds better. Especially in case of Rabeas songs, since they are fucking awesome haha)

[@StaceyDouglas]

Thanks Rabea! Love this track!

[@simclimie6045]

RABEA.... BECAUSE OF YOU NOW I USE BASS SYNTHS... A GREAT IDEA AND FILLS THE LOW END

[@OZCover]

Great video. Will be very useful 🤘

[@remedydrums2]

heard this explained a thousand times, but this hit different. Instantly replicated 🤘

[@jumpbackgeno]

Yeah Bro thanks for listening, we dig this and remember a long time ago when you did Superior Drummer tutorials haha wow always a fan here🤘🏼

[@meggiefromdrogheda]

Thank you!

[@at_at]

Great stuff, Rabea!

[@cwwisk]

Nice!

[@autechrr]

Great video as always Rabea.

[@Cheximus]

No where to comment about Grinding Gears Vol 4 - the ending to Collateral Damage is just insane. I cant get enough!

[@jimmyx4599]

Well done Rabea very good music piece sounds awesome man!.

[@1siriuswolf]

That death git part so effing wicked 💀

[@olivierjezequel]

Nice ! Thanks for that detailed video ! I use Logic too and always struggled with mastering. The new AI mastering they released with the latest update has solved a lot of that for me. But it is probably not open enough to specific controls for you ;)

[@adamkollarSOOT]

very useful, as I'm just learning how to mix/master, it's super handy. Thank You golden hand!

[@MeasAgun]

Love it! Awesome composition and sound. Cheers from France 💜

[@Clinthopanonymous]

I have a part in one my songs that I use your synth basically just like this. Put it on a clean guitar, layer that bad boy and it just fills up a room.

[@j-fquevillon8134]

You're masterbuss top-down plugins is pretty intense EQ wise, but yeah if it works, it works!! Sounding good anyway! Keep it up 🔥

[@Mateplaysguitar]

This is gold, thank you!

[@omynel]

Your bass tones are always so utterly nasty 🤘😤🤘

[@ChrisLT]

This sort of stuff is always super helpful.

[@TarekMG]

Loved watching this!

[@tyman8173]

Nice one Rabea, I learned a ton from this.

[@lacyrytex]

Great walk-through! Would be great with a "Recording / Mixing" playlist!

[@RSCOTTRKS]

I Wish UAD would release "FATSO" in Native format............Do more vid's like this dude........I'm sponging this stuff up !

[@skydonut]

This is fascinating@rabea .. thanks man

[@METAlMASTERBRASIL]

cool

[@martinwinther9006]

this is so cool

[@callumvernon7053]

Use your ears, not eyes. Like you said theres many ways of doing things and I absolutely agree with you on that. The one thing I always suggest to people is high pass, as it’s the most important regarding headroom and cleaning up the mix. The one thing you can’t gain overnight is experience of mixing different instruments and timbres together, once you know how to “glue” the frequencies together it’s only upwards from there! Something I’d recommend with your mix is to use the gain plugin to essentially level your mix first so that the faders have the best resolution. Gain staging is very important too.

[@hoam1293]

THANK YOU BEAAAA!

[@TheOnlineMusician]

Super useful tips..love that piece.. Please do a theory analysis as well!

[@kasra3657]

Thank u for sharing man 🤟

[@BlackenedNL]

Really enjoyed this thank you!

[@Schpacky]

One of your best mixes to date my guy! Were you using the neve 1073 bakes intothe guitars? And if so what was the settings? Love you brother looking forward to your future releases!

[@GreigSills]

Amazing walkthrough mate. Def helped me a lot. 1 quick question though, do the GGD drums have the processing on them (turbo switch etc.) or are they the raw sounds?

[@garyoneill5648]

awesome thank you bea, so many awesome tips :0)

[@JoePacheco]

Great video! Thanks for the insight! I'm curious, did you get this mastered or did you master it yourself? I'd love to know what your final level was when you submitted it to streaming platforms. 😊 Thanks!

[@will_guitarmusic]

Sensacional ❤

[@BeHeardStudio]

Super cool Rabea! I'm pretty sure you heard about Flatline 2 right? That would replace JST clip and Pro-L2 alltogether and it sounds so mean! Saving on audio engine load + Sounds so good, why not! I really love your songs, keep them coming! Rock on!

[@drebrose1983]

smash and grab still killing it

[@HaroldLem]

Very instructive and inspiring video 👍

[@rockprophecy2897]

Top Drawer!

[@defmu3825]

20:22 I love the fact that you consider this bass tone as a "clean bass".🤣 Sounds great though!

[@MarkHolden73]

Thanks for this, I'm only just getting back to mixing and certainly not a pro. Just a thought on phase (yes its your ears that make the final decision) would it be an idea to bounce the midi for the kicks to separate audio tracks then you can see (I feel the comments about using your eyes already) what the phase alignment is like. A full phase flip may not of been required depending on how the sample was recorded. nudging or delaying the kick may have a better result. I'm only thinking out loud here and I'm sure Dave will have much better advice. Your Kick here sound fine to me :)

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

Interesting information, brother. It would be cool if we could also sit in on some of your writing sessions-- once the song has been released and copyrighted, etc, if you're worried about that kind of thing.

[@robphegan90]

Awesome content loving the mix breakdowns. How do you run Neural DSP standalone into a virtual mixer in Logic Pro?

[@zackdaniels4110]

Anyone else so entirely lost on music production that even this very well put together and described video means absolutely nothing?

[@electricwhiterabbit]

Sounds great. Curious why you didn't print the drum tracks? was the latency good enough with them?

[@stoyan3597]

How many compressors and EQs do you want? Bea: Yes

[@Thryce23]

Good shit man 😝

[@Tykokot1234]

Would love to see mix breakdown on parade of rage

[@TheRealFoxeR]

Hey Rabea, could you do a run-through of how you edit videos like this?

[@sunhead-x]

I would SO SO SO MUCH LOVE to get access to your backing tracks (minus lead guitar), and i would definitely pay for it!!

[@lilian896]

Like the Soothe.★

[@qaijuana]

I can't unhear MJ's Beat It from 6:50 onwards ahaks!

[@clemlvn9598]

Haha

[@rishabhbose29]

Hey Bea, how are those Gene's treating ya mate. I believe those are the 41s right. I have a Neumann 2.1 setup at my Home Studio. Planning to get a pair of 41s with a 7350. But they will leave me broke as hell.

[@BoogieMan568]

Love the song. And stunning guitar tones :-) You look tired mate🙂

[@brandangullison4989]

Dorje is one of my favourite bands

[@brandangullison4989]

My favourite guitarist rabea!

[@geoffnightingale9290]

Do you draw automation or use a write fader controller? Epic mix.

[@ReginaCorderoIbarra]

Solid breakdown dude, lionvaplus AI could never match your mixing skills.

[@yigit_kuru]

I NEED THAT DRUM PRESET! 😮

[@XSUFFOKATEX]

Question...when you are tracking your rhythm guitars are you using different amps? Or are you just panning the same amp L/R to make it sound wider?

[@chrija03]

Not sure if this has been covered before...but what gear are you using to play-in your drums? What's the e-kit your playing and how are you getting midi into logic?

[@IndyRockStar]

do you only do instrumental music? Do want vocals, or can't find a fitting vocalist?

[@jackflynn-oakley1937]

Try using Soothe in external mode and use that to sidechain your bass to kick instead, thank me later