How I Mixed IDDQD | Production Elements

As requested (thank you!) here’s a mix breakdown of my latest single IDDQD - hopefully some useful tips in here for you all!

00:00 - Intro
01:11 - The Session
02:31 - The Drums
11:42 - The Guitars
16:27 - The Bass
18:07 - The Bass Synth
20:05 - Sound Design Layers
32:59 - Summary
33:44 - Mixing
35:01 - Master Bus Chain
36:39 - Final Thoughts

Video edited by John Hollingworth
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[caseymclane]

This mix is straight up fire man
Any REAL professional mixing engineer will tell you there's no such thing as "by the book", mixing is an art and any art is born out of creativity

[ashcraig]

This is so awesome man! You achieve such an enormous sound and that main riff is insane. I think I love it more after you broke down all the layers. My recordings are a muddy mess with this much going on... you have such a gift for this. Thank you for sharing it!!

[IanGratton]

Thanks for sharing the process Bea - Its so interesting to see how a track like this gets arranged - it thumps so hard - one nod per second perfect tempo in middle part🤘🏻

I've just started out on my home recording journey - I have a UA Volt 276 (hoping I can do everything native without the DSP of the Apollo), Boss IR-200 + my guitar board/bass players board and I'm using the UA Luna Pro bundle plus things like the Empirical Distressor, Lexicon LX480 etc. I got a little Akai MPK mini plus for midi/transport - its a proper rabbit hole and I can get lost for hours but its SO much fun.

Keep making this awesome music maaaan !

[kevinneil]

You’ve been killing it 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 please drop more music, please breakdown more mixes!!!

[itsjohnnymillion]

All of your disclaimers aside, your attention to detail and creativity is inspiring. Amazing tune AND production.

[JRGz]

Gonna enjoy watching, been learning a lot from your mixing videos, have been re watching the old ones too. Greetings from Dominican Republic!🤟🏽

[Sinisterbvnny]

I was hoping youd put this out. thanks, man 🤘

[Ale-Desafinados]

Just amazing! Thanks Rabea, what a masterpiece!

[keschgelb]

Once again i've learned so much about mixing, especially EQ and saturation. I also love to use this kind of cinematic and orchestral effects! Great stuff. Million thanks for your inspiration, Rabea..

[valentinsutersuter]

Such an inspiration to lay it all out like that, thanks man

[lucwilson]

What a fascinating process! Seems so complex for a layman caveman like myself. The end product is beautiful!!

[benzakonium]

This is amazingly helpful. Thanks so much for sharing. Just took a few initial tips from this and instantly improved the mix I'm working on.

[BadHorsie]

The synth bass track adds a lot of wool and hair to the bass track. Thanks for sharing this. It was very insightful.

[TheMonkii]

Noticed a lot of 'Zero Latency' processing on your EQs. Setting 'Linear' phase on ProQ3 inserts has been a revelation... Especially on steep moves like high/low pass on tracks with lots of harmonic distortion, overheads etc. Not immediately noticeable in solo, but clarity gains overall have been amazing, losing all the weird 'swishy' phasing that can occur over many layers. Also noticed clarity gains in bass instrument frequency crossovers (bass guitar tracks/kick/synth placement)

[scrinbot]

IDDQD? The cheat code of DOOM 1 ?
Idkfa all weapons
Iddqd god mode

[BLOOBADGA]

Fantastic vid and track! proper up my street and similar what I'm attempting to create at home and happy to see I have virtually all of the plug ins you mention, so this is so helpful to watch! :)

[nutellaking]

This Sh!t Fvckin SLAPS man! I appreciate videos like this so much bea! Amazing work!

[valnascott]

You have such an unique cool sound in your mixes, thanks for sharing!!

[callumvernon]

Sounds killer man! A little tip:

I like to put a gain/trim plugin first on a channel (or after a guitar vst) and balance the mix with those and faders at zero. It just means when you to make changes, the resolution of the fader is more fine and automation will be easier 👍

[petertsilko]

I've learned a lot from this mix breakdown. Thx a lot🙌