Mixing Punk Rock & Hardcore - Drums/Bass/Guitars using Room Sound "The Blasting Room Series"

[@charlie_sin_mag]

Need more punk mixing videos on here. I'd love to see Jason from The Blasting Room do a mix breakdown

[@hilbertshotel]

Wow. Scooping the mids on the rhythm guitars. I always hear that's a classic no-no, but it sounds amazing. Great mix.

[@PapiDeLonge]

John u always be my favorite one, thanks bro! Learn alot!!

[@stevenneufeldmusic]

really amazing video! thanks for posting it.. really cool to see a deep dive into your mixing style, and all the great techniques you use to achieve really rad songs in the end. amazing instrumentation! this video being two years old, i can only imagine you've come even further these days. i originally was just looking to see about usage / example tones of the blasting room drum pack, but got more than i bargained for here when google led me to this youtube video. love your band, PMX, btw! happy to be in touch via social media from time to time. cheers!

[@jamessergeant8476]

Great tutorial, thanks. And fuck yeah, new PMX on the way!

[@speedbumpscovers_]

Thanks for this upload man!!! I'm going to use it as a reference for sure!💪🔥

[@harcusaudio]

Nice one man! Cheers!

[@DieLewens]

Hi John, this is life. Thanks for sharing!

[@davegarland82]

This is genuine gold man, great detail and explanations behind each decision. Track sounds awesome too. 🙌🏻

[@harcusaudio]

Cheers Dave man! Much appreciated

[@kylegrossi8175]

This is great man! thanks for posting this.

[@harcusaudio]

No problem Kyle! Cheers man!

[@danovenilsen]

Cool vid man. Nice to find some punk-mixing tutorials in the sea of metal-producers. Just wish this was for real drums. It´s so much easier to mix when you don´t have phase issues, bleeds, tuning and bad mic placements to worry about, but the sonic aspects still apply tho. My band: "The daily grind". A happy first try for me at trying to mix live drums there on the latest album. Thanx for a great tutorial. Cheers from Norway.

[@caltezza]

Another solid video. Thank you

[@lheo777]

Excelente!....very good

[@PaulCoutts]

GLORIOUS

[@ignacio-araya]

Killer song bro

[@johnlmcclure41]

Yes!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

[@harcusaudio]

No problem John. Hope it comes in useful as a reference man. Cheers!

[@tomkmb4120]

Amazing tutorial man - would love to see more on how to record skate punk/punk rock. Have been using your packs the last week or so and am about to record my first set of guitars over it at the end of this week. Just wondering, if I'm using EZDrummer 3 - is that suitable for this level of mixing on the drum parts too? or are those already 'pre mixed' to an extent?

[@aleknostar]

Cool vid bro! From what library is the GGD room sample?

[@kendomixes]

So other than the snare, no verb or delay when mixing punk? Is that typical?

[@Scott-i7v]

how much money did you spend on plugins in this video?

[@seanriley9045]

Is it possible to download multi tracks of this to follow along ?

[@harcusaudio]

Will try to get it sorted asap! Cheers!

[@seanriley9045]

Thanks very much!

[@dunbinhad]

I really dig this video. I am very new to mixing and play punk similar to your stuff and have had a rough time finding tutorials that a relevant to what I’m trying to do. I have a bunch of songs recorded with electric drums and we have been using blasting room for are drum sound and I have been trying to figure how to mix them. A few questions do use the bleed option for blasting room, would you ever convert the midi to audio to mix like a normal drum set? And do you ever use the slate tape on master bus? I would be stoked if you put out more of these mix videos. I’m would be sick to see how you mix vocals. Are vocals are pretty gravelly so still learning a lot about how to tackle eq compression and what not. Thanks again for posting this.

[@harcusaudio]

Hi Jake. Cheers for checking out the video and glad you dig it. Regarding bleed. I would lkely have a play around with it if there was too much bleed after compression on single channels or use a gate to isolate the main sound that im processing. Regarding bouncing to audio. Yes, absolutely, i would likely do this if i was blending in additional samples so I could check that they were all in phase also, I would bounce to audio if I was sending away to be mixed. For this example though, mixing on the aux channels got the desired effect and still leaves the option to edit the MIDI. lastly, Slate Tape on the master, I do use it all the time on my mixbus, this is a rare ocassion where i didnt. It gives a really nice lowend bump around 60hz which may have been to much for this mix but i do like what it does when you drop it on to your mixbus. Has a nice natural compression sound and can also glue everything together. It does make everything a few db louder so its important to unlink the input/output and gain match to hear what its doing. its also a great clipper if you drive your mix in to it to round off transients similar to what im doing with slate fg-x. Will definately do more in the future with vocals bro. Cheers!

[@dunbinhad]

Hell ya man, thanks for the input can't wait to check out the next one.

[@kylegrossi8175]

I wouldn't mind seeing some EZD2 or SD3 stuff. your DI's sounds so good. are you going direct in to your interface or are you hitting something else first? thanks!

[@harcusaudio]

No worries Kyle. Hopefully get some EZDrummer stuff done soon. Yeah man, DI's for this track are direct into the Focusrite Clarett 8 pre. Cheers.

[@kylegrossi8175]

@@harcusaudio Thanks. Yeah the DI's sounded great.

[@DieLewens]

@@harcusaudio yes please! Some nice punk rock presets on EZD2!

[@juanignaciovolpe1914]

This is awesome John! where can i find the final version??

[@harcusaudio]

Cheers bro. Definitely in my hard drive somewhere but as of yet unreleased. Cheers! 🤘

[@marcpeiron_studio]

Great job, thanks for sharing. One question: Altough the effects in Kontakt are disengaged, is this drum library pre-mixed or are they raw sounds? I'd bet it's kind of already mixed.

[@harcusaudio]

Cheers man. Its definately been recorded with some stellar processing and sounds very good out of the box.

[@MysterBlu]

Would you consider selling a preset pack for the Axe FX III?

[@harcusaudio]

Will look in to it man! Cheers!

[@fader5074]

this video is incredible, I appreciate you man, a question please .... what interface have you used for the guitar? Thanks a lot

[@harcusaudio]

Thanks very much for checking it out! At the time of this recording, I was using the Focusrite Clarett 8 Pre (USB Version) - I believe they do a 2 in and a 4 in - version of the Clarett also. Really clean and solid interface - Great sounding D/A for monitoring also. Mixed a lot through it. The built-in Headphone amp is sweet too.

[@fader5074]

@@harcusaudio I adore you John! You are helping us a lot with these videos and your Drum samples (DIY) are incredible. Un abrazo!

[@rikketik84]

Did you use your skatepunk midi packs on this one? Drag 'n drop? No editing of the velocities?

[@harcusaudio]

Don't think so bro. Writing new tracks for my band Pmx so likely drew in the hooks to match the guitars. Might have used the double-time beats and a few fills. Cheers.

[@fader5074]

Hi mate! What brand of guitar and bass guitar did you use for the recording? Thanks a lot

[@harcusaudio]

Hey man. I think I used my Ibanez SZ570 which I modded with a Seymour Duncan Omega Bridge pickup for guitar and the bass is a Cort Action PJ 🤘

[@LeonardRiley-y6z]

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[@curtiswehner6292]

Nothing can replace a real drummer

[@greenones8754]

This is so dumb. Get a drumpad an audio interface a laptop link it. There punkband in digital for a few 100. No let's get a Pioneer and all else that comes with it for a bucket of money.

[@gigafuq8751]

great video! do you have any videos like this for vocals, or know any good video that covers it? i find vox to be by far the hardest part to mix and I can never get a result I'm happy with