Unlocking the secrets of Mixing Drums

[@alborzmousapour3446]

you are the honestest mix engineer

[@jpribeiro4706]

The quality of your videos are so much better than the most of the famous channels here on youtube!! Keep rocking, man!!!!

[@JoshWestMix]

Thank you so much! Making these videos for you is a blast!

[@BobK115]

An absolute joy to watch you work! It must be amazing having all that gear at your disposal.

[@JoshWestMix]

It is, and it's a blast to make the videos for you guys!

[@Letsgetbread8500]

Excellent mix and footage 👍

[@Rhuggins]

Very hight quality stuff here. Much appreciated. Love how focused it is

[@DanielBaeder]

This is the perfect example of why I first see the final result for after listen how he did it. This video is great to show us, that no matter how many stuff you have in your studio, at the end, is what comes out of the speaker. thank you

[@keivebeats]

I liked it! The sound of the drum is much wider and more airy

[@tadren]

This soon to be copyright struck video… was EXCELLENT!! Thanks for uploading. :)

[@LoomSoundStudio]

Serious content my man, love to see authentic work. Cheers!

[@patricioandres2562]

👋👋👋, thanks, another excellent video. I hope you continue making videos about recording, including keyboards recording to adudio plugins; I have started passing them through a channel strip hardware and it improved a lot, but I am still a little complicated / lost with the levels,....

[@marcinmima4779]

Man, YOU are THE MASTER!!!

[@Studio22mix]

Awesome video again 👌🏼 I really enjoyed watching this ❤

[@huberttorzewski]

Nice video! The final drum mix feels too raw for me still but that's my taste probably haha. As a drummer myself I like the drums to feel like an extension of my performance (what I imagine during playing) - bigger, wider, with more punch and keeping all of the details of the performance (ghosts notes are very important and every detail on each cymbal - I like to hear the distinct differences between each cymbal I play and the high end attack of the stick + where they are places in the panorama + the dynamics of every cymbal hit because I can practice hours and hours to play the little details on the cymbals and a snare really precise). It's like 40-50% there here. I would probably push more lows and highs, push the overheads louder (maybe also brighter to make the individual cymbal hits more audible) and make the compression accentuate the attack more to really make it pop and have some nice crack to the snare. It feels too shy and restrained altough I love the natural tone and warmth that's underneath it (feels like it would be pretty easy to push it a bit without making it sound artificial because the raw tones are great). I didn't mean to offend you or anything like that, it's just my honest opinion, may be just my taste and you can ignore my comment haha. I'm subbing your channel and really like your content, it's great!

[@JoshWestMix]

Thanks! I really appreciate your kind words. Your support means the world to me!

[@TheNathanMac]

My goodness, when you heard the rumble in the kick, you instantly knew to go to the gate…. I’ve been engineering for 15 years and still would have reached for the EQ 😂 I love watching other people and learning new things :)

[@D4dd3Ors0]

Amazing Josh, thank you!

[@yevheniimelnyk8911]

Josh great video! There is relatively new gate comes out recently “Silencer”, you might like it!

[@dmitrystuchevsky9995]

I compared them both, OXford better to my ears, especially for transients!

[@heikohesse4666]

wow - best drum mix video ever! thanks - what SSL system do you use? 😎 edit: I found it, cool ...

[@GrimaldiSound]

Sounds great, brotha!!

[@WheelieMix]

When aligning the drums mic, why not aligning to the overheads instead? Thanks!

[@hudsontaylor3751]

Hi can you share some light on Manley Massive passive ? Thx

[@Iconicsoundmusic7]

Well, this is super true, but most people just can’t afford the high end gear and if you’re starting to mix in the box, I would say get with nebula nebula is a way for you to have high end gear right inside your DAW And be honest with you, I’ve gotten so good with the nebula Plugins with the affordable, and GEARV that I have I honestly don’t even have to upgrade and I’m getting just as good of a sound as his huge studio

[@tronmosesmedia4816]

Josh, what camera are you using?

[@PAL-MUSIC-1]

I have a NI bundle I got about a year ago, is this different or a whole new bundle? 🤔

[@nathanclave]

I'm always having trouble mixing snare bottom, overheads and kick out :(

[@jroz8111]

Hey brother question why not use the ssl gates? You feel the plugin is as good?

[@Studio22mix]

He uses Sonnox drum gate, which is one of the best drum gates out there. Hardware gates are not as tweakable as good software gates. I use Drawmer DS201 gates which are pretty good but software like Sonnox Drum Gate and Sonible Smart Gate are way better imo

[@autopilotmiscreants]

Thank You.

[@chinmeysway]

all very pro moves but interesting/ curious to not check for phase

[@korbykor1546]

Kick ass.

[@peterheinen6110]

Hmmm, drummer here. I don't even need a console. After the drums are done, the only real hard work left are the vocals.😂

[@chinmeysway]

you sure would need one if you had a 10 piece band plus live drummer at same time hmmm?

[@iljaglinins3398]

Thanks Josh for this lessons 👍🏻 Do you plan to show us how to mix a hip hop track?

[@marcdanielnelson317]

I was waiting for a cheat code like Up, Down, A,B,B,B,A..

[@romaroalte2645]

Mix with good headphones so you don't ever have to move back and forth to hear the right sound balance. An advice from a very beginner.

[@twitchbook-1]

cheers

[@morbidmanmusic]

yeah, but the poor level matching gets difficult to listen thru. Samples, ... time align. not a fan, as a drumming engineer. it isn't how ears, or mics hear. Sample just cover up reality. With all that work, there are still too many sounds without the labor that rival it as far as real sounding actual drums. (from what ever chosen listening perspective)

[@Heywoodj1969]

Loads addictive drums in my pc…. Saves 30 minutes of watching this video and $200,000.00

[@JSSTUDIO-wr2jq]

🙂👍

[@MaisonLexBeatz]

EQuing in solo... Well i understood enough to leave the video.

[@amazeus1980]

Lots of work! I think I rather use samples xD

[@kenzoblytheproducertv4934]

Dopeness🫡🫡🫡

[@asor8037]

There are no secrets, only developing your ears over years of praactice. Clickbait titles are KZbin's biggest downside.

[@chinmeysway]

shhhhh it’s a secrete that clickbait is a thing don’t tell everyone

[@johnisrael5183]

Its no point in even watch this....because who can afford that console its lowdown how SSL figured out how to keep that out of the hands of about 90% of the people that engineer.....really low down !!!!

[@jpribeiro4706]

Just don't watch it, man! Come on 🤦‍♂

[@evanmcgregor3758]

What a ridiculous thing to say.... I'm learning to mix in the box with plugins and from watching this I'm learning a great deal on techniques of layering, eq, compression and general workflow, seeing how other's thinking process etc... There's a load of translatable info here...

[@BreeMorenoMendozabrybry]

@@evanmcgregor3758doubling down on this! it’s not about the equipment, it’s about seeing a problem and showing you techniques to deal with it. you may not have the same tools but there MANY free tools now available that can help you achieve these effects, if anything you now what to invest in the future if you want to apply these techniques to their fullest extent

[@dougjane64]

Well you would never have been able to work in a real studio in the 60's!