Essential Steps of Mixing Drums | Are You Listening? Season 5, Ep 2

Learn how to mix drums by building a great foundation packed with punchy lows, crispy highs, and plenty of character. In this episode of ‘Are You Listening?,’ GRAMMY Award-winning mix engineer Enrique Gonzalez Müller shares how to identify the lowest and highest frequencies in your mix and use these as sonic references when selecting complementary sample replacements and EQ moves. Learn how to determine the “role” of each sound in your low end so you can use them to support a track’s overarching emotional objectives when mixing drums.

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - Inspecting the arrangement
00:08:53 - Adding drum samples
00:25:08 - Mixing Kicks
00:37:08 - Mixing Snares
00:45:23 - Mixing the verse drums
00:52:46 - High-frequency content
01:10:22 - Finishing up the beat
01:18:33 - Parallel processing
01:24:57 - Comparison and last thoughts

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[iZotopeOfficial]

What essential steps do you take when you're mixing drums? 🥁

[robertsimpson]

I’m a simple man. I see Enrique Gonzalez Mueller, I click play.

Another awesome video, Professor! Always good to see your handiwork!

[DarkTrapStudio]

At this point this is producing as well as engineering still one of the best mixing masteclass out here on youtube.

[otysee]

I love how passionate you present this. I would not make some of your choices, but then again, everyone has a different taste and preference. So all is good. The main importance is how you share the process with us. As a DIY musician, I fully appreciate this sharing. Thanks so much

[AutPen]

There are so many tips and ideas in this. What a masterclass!

[StanAllDay]

Big ups EGM learned lots of stuffs! Thank you

[thomfraney]

Great work, my friend. Awesome tutorial. Thanks so much

[blacktraptv]

I liked the way he proceeded to deal with the crash live, delay + flanger #psychedelic thing, love it!!

[brokent]

Thank you for putting this super informative video. Also, thank you for making it easy to understand the concepts!

[Mrdogmasyria]

Awesome tutorial Enrique, You give us good ideas with good energy, thank you Izotope and make more with this guy

[harryishere]

This episode is awesome 😎👌...
I can't wait to watch next episode...🔥🔥🔥

[barnybeatz]

Thanks alot for this amazing tutorials

[ItsJustAdrean]

I might not make the same choices as you, but your logic I can get behind. Very creative and a vast improvement over the original

[Sprawl]

All the drum samples made it sound like an earlier Beck tune. Still a great instructional video.

[trigasurge]

Really like the series, thank you! Also, thank you for a great example of phase issues. The example of fixing it with Relay at 13:13, helped to make the phase issues sink Enrique!

[cesarmunoz]

MUCHAS GRACIAS MAESTRO !! What a great Master Class

[attor]

Thanks so a lot for this amazing tutorials.

[SandNigah]

Literally can't wait for the next Epi

[summerfazed]

Amazing, I need this video! I've been using the UNMASK module plugin by itself on the drums and bass to get the vocal to sit in the mix. Just sidechain to the vocal and adjust the bands and it carves out frequencies that are stepping on the vocal. Very subtle blend.. but you can actually turn down the vocals a little and they are still more forward in the mix than before.

[justinharrison]

These are always great and inspiring. Thank you! Keep them coming HA