How to mix drums
Mixing engineer and producer Richie Beretta (Beyoncé, Jillionaire, Diplo) walks you through his mix for his track “Whatever”
What you will learn in this course
Requirements
Lesson 1 - Introduction
Download the Brute plug-in (30-day demo)
Final Mix (With noise cancelling)
Final Mix (Without noice canceling)
Lesson 2 - Notes on DAW preferences and work environments
Lesson 3 - Raw Drums Unmixed drums exported from Brute(No Mixing)
Lesson 4 - Music Sensibility - let your ears and taste be your guide
Lesson 5 - mixing the Kick Drum - Eq and Compression with SSL style Plugin
Lesson 6 - mixing the Snare - EQ and distortion
Lesson 7 - Do “realistic” analog modeled plugins make a difference QA
Lesson 8 - Snare Reverb - timing the reverb
Lesson 9 - Mixing Toms - Traditional EQ with Dynamic EQ
Lesson 10 - Mixing Hi Hats - EQ
Lesson 11 - Mixing the Ride - EQ
Lesson 12 - Mixing the Overheads - Eq and Compression
Lesson 13 - Room - thought process behind preparing the room for a mix
Lesson 14 - Q&A
Lesson 15 - Mixing Room - EQ
Lesson 16 - The importance of Practicing Mixing and how to do it
Lesson 17 - Room Reverb - sending the room to synthetic reverb
Lesson 18 - Q&A
Lesson 19 - How the Mixbus & Parallel Compression adds to the drum tones