I listen to this song in my car at least once a week and I’m always blown away with how much more top end it has than other songs. Like, it literally sounds like 90% of the stuff I listen to have blankets over my speakers. You get insane clarity.

The live tracks (godly snare among others) sound huge already. Final mix is killer. Loved that video.

YES!!! LOVE THESE GUYS! Thank you for sharing this Jordan! Also, I spy an electronic drum kit in the background! 👀

The drum walk through is so huge. Thank you! Also, that chorus kicks ass.

The course that Jordan offers is simply amazing. He takes you through everything from tracking to editing and mixing. He explains everything in a very clear and concise way - plus he, his team and the private Facebook group are always on hand to answer questions and give honest, polite and constructive feedback. If you're serious about learning how to record at a pro level, it's definitely worth considering.

Thanks for sharing this Jordan. Really enjoyed this. I dig the band too

The sound is simply awesome. As always

Awesome video! Raw drum tracks and the gangs also sounded really great!

i love that setup man i love that

I had a friend recommend your channel and am pleasantly surprised how in depth each subject and element is presented. Thank you. Lots to learn. 👍😊

Oh that drum mix is so damn satisfying to hear. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Ha basically great job.

Absolute love these guys, love this song, love the chance to see behind the scenes like this. Sounds incredible.

Great job on your recording and production of this track! It sounds excellent and the little spices you used (the extra mic in that side room, the Altar Boy plug in on the vocal and guitars etc) were all excellent touches. The band definitely has a distinct Coheed influence but the song and the performance were excellent. They're all quite talented. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I definitely want to learn more about sourcing and using drum samples. In particular snare and kick of course. In producing my own projects, the type of music has never really called for it but more of the bands that I'm recording are on the modern heavy rock/metal/punk side and the samples would really go a long way as they did here. Not to mention that practically all my favorite records from my the 90's which were recorded and mixed by producers and mix engineers like Brendan O'Brien and Andy Wallace, all had at least snare samples on them. I'll have to check through your videos and see if you have any on implementing these kids of samples.

I loved this. Very helpful. Thank you for sharing!

That chorus sounds like a metal version of Michael Jackson... pretty interesting vibe. Cool video, thanks for sharing.

Thank you for this video

Oh wow I know that studio well. Haven’t been there in years. Beautiful live room! Cool vid.

Wow! this is huge! thank you soo much Jordan!

raw snare sounds pretty insane

Killer!! Thanks for the walkthrough!

also do u have a recommended height for the cymbals + hh so it doesnt get in the way of the other mics?

That studio looks like a place I’ve been to in Santa Barbara. Killer setup!

works PERFECTLY!

Man haven't heard about these guys in a minute. Great to see em movin. Godzilla sized snare. Amazing work man.

Crazy! Precise as always!

Love the song!

Fantastic job on that track!

Love this band a ton

Good ole Mike. Haven’t seen him in ages.

Straight fire

Thanks so much! This worked :)!

huge mix very inspiring

Hey, I'm a big fan of yours and have subscribed to your channel and have learned many great tips from it over the years. One small critique though, I find your drum mixes to be overly wide, and in the stereo spectrum it represents a drum kit that is unrealistically wide and unnatural. Have you ever tried to narrow the drum mix in anything you've done in order to open up the sides for the guitars and vocals? Just my thoughts, but what do I know, no one pays me to do mixing lol! Anyways, from one canuck to another, thank you for your channel and info, one of the best for audio mixing on KZfaq.

Well done Jordan 👍

I have to say I don’t understand adding samples to those drums, especially the snare. It already sounds so good, you’re in a great room with great mics, and that drummer is super consistent and tight. If it were me I’d be fighting to make sure it sounded less like programmed drums, not more.

Great!!!

Serious Coheed vibes on this one 😆👌

Demo sounds crisp af! Even on a mobile phone!

do u have a course on deum tuning?

4:30 what is that tonal hum in the snare sample? It is decaying with the snare’s tail, but it sounds a bit weird.. in solo, at least. Was that intentional?

Are all the backup vocals (and some rhythm guitars) recorded in Stereo using two mics, and then panned hard right and left? If so, what’s the placement of the mics like? Right beside each other…?

Damn the singer is good !

That sounds absolutely incredible like for real. I’m actually listening in a studio through proper monitors, and dude in my opinion that’s like Andy Wallace/Andy Sneap good. It’s like a modern Metal Peter Gabriel production lol did you do preproduction? and do you ever do preproduction? Thank you.

This is great Jordan -- thanks. Question if you have time -- how do you do/what do you use for your snare and kick samples?

That song reminds me a lot of M.I.A by Avenged Sevenfold off City of Evil

Struggling to get the mic bleed out of my drum mics. I am sure you have a video for that. My shell mics pick up enough cymbals that I can't manipulate the overhead signal effectively.

Hey, could somebody explain to me the "Kick Sample"? Is it literally a sample from the internet... but it seems like an audio file. Thank you!

Hey, what were your settings for that vocal distressor ?

Cool video like MWTM =) thx

4:22 this is gonna sound weird but that snare sound is massively sounding like Face Down by Red Jumpsuit. I don't know if it's the same snare or the ring

Great walkthrough of this song's recording, producing, and mixing process. I'm curious if you did any time aligning of the drum tracks.If so could you walk us through the process?

Nice video! What are the click noises in the guitar solos btw?

Super nerd question but what’s the deal with the patchbay setup at the studio where you tracked?? Looked really cool. Like they pulled some channel strips and put in patchbays?!

Do you have a full mix video? Start to finish?

having edited drums, did you just consolidate all the tracks and import in this mixing session or did you also do any additional processing during editing such as filtering, EQing, gating or bleed clean up? By the way, very nice work

My snare mics always have TONS of hat in them no matter where I put them. How'd you keep the hat from being loud in the snare mics?

Did you boost anything in that preamp with the SM7B? Mine sounds boxy when I record

Is that Sam on the drums in the thumbnail?

Curious: when the band gets lunch and you’re still there editing- they’re still on the clock, paying for your time, right?

Great video, thank you :) what settings do you use on the distressor? :)

Whats the benefit of eq/compression on the way in of the recording? I don’t see any way that would be a smarter approach than eqing/compressing afterwards

For what is omni measurement mic at drum recording session used for? Thank you as always

Random question! Did you use those distressors on the overhead mics?

Aside from the 421’s. What are your typical go to tom mics?

is the song out?

All drums and vocals were done in just 12 hours? These are some serious musicians

How come you don't use 57 BETAs on your top and bottom Snare? Great video btw.

It is a rock song, fair enough but sometimes too much of energy can overcook the music to a point of it being ruined, whereuin important sound detail is lost (kick/snares sound overprocessed for instance, ending up clouding the rest of the mix). different tastes surely. Hear this for comparison where far more complex drums are mixed but without ruining their ndividual sound kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7OijNlzx7mRiYE.html .

Sounding like the snare sample added a ton of ring. I wish samples weren’t everywhere. If you’re gonna do that just go all the way and program the drums.

Expensive videos……

Anime theme style music. Getting popular.

Im not digging the octave up vocal thing.

An example of 2022 ear crushing loudness, with no dynamics or space. God help us.