Mixing Drum Samples with Hip Hop Producer Focus... (Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar) 

Pretty sure you mean mixing is what makes the song AFTER the music and lyrics are written, the song has the proper arrangement/tempo map, and instrumentation chosen. And this is almost all before anyone presses RECORD. Then it falls to the tracking engineer to make sure the tones are right, there are no phase issues (if using multiple mics), and making sure to get great takes from the singer and other performers. THEN mixing comes in and makes all of these sound amazing. If any of the previous steps are less than amazing, the mix can only make it shine so much. Leaving issues to be resolved in the mixing phase that could've been fixed before then is a sure way to kill your final product sound on mixing day. My 2 cents.

well, they do record before the actual mix, to do have the proper songwriting/arrangement/tempo/instrumentation. It's called pre prod. I'm just nit picking, the rest is spot on

well once you are a producer, you are a mixer man lol(all in all at once)

Chuck Costello dude, you’re missing the point that OP is making...I’ll put it this way: proper mixdown is pretty much the difference between what sounds like a Kendrick beat and what sounds amateur. Yes, the steps before need to be great, but that’s something anyone who ain’t stupid already knows 🤦‍♂️

It's the make it or break it stage

Indeed...son of the late, great Bernard Edwards.

I just made a Focus-like beat in 5 minutes

facts!

OPeCKiE Productions doubles works great on synth tracks or even a synth bus. Cheers!

JINGLE TRAXX MUSIC Yea you're right but sometimes its about a faster work flow. I mean I can do everything he just done in logic which is exactly the Daw he is using. However it will take at least 3 of logic's plugins to acheive the same effect vs just using the Torque plugin alone. Sometimes time is money when finishing a mix for a client.

JINGLE TRAXX MUSIC You're learning. Lol. Companies been using actors and musicians to sell product for over 50 years...

JINGLE TRAXX MUSIC I agree with you all the way..

*100*

if you are a professional and work in studios all day waves are a god-send. well worth the money. LinMB is my hero.

Bruh this is not a mixdown 🤔 everybody shit dumb loaud when they are making the beat

lol

What gave you the idea that this was a mix down?

The key to good music is not how many dB or any plug-in. But we are not talking about that. The guy is shaping a drum to get different sounds. Brah don’t over think it LOL!

it isn't clipping... it only clips when you export to lower bitrates...

K.O. Joe Word that would be nice on live drums as well. Gonna have to steal that trick!

Try shadow hills or ssl buss comp in parallel...

Rvox seems to be a great choice for bringing the character of sounds out, I wasn’t expecting it neither but I’m noticing a lot of industry kats are using it in these ways. I quite liked the result got after applying it

And which DAW is the best.

Agreed!!!

Or like DeadMaus - bitchin about using presets

@@RiversBliss totally false

And this is coming from someone who worked at a commercial studio

It's actually called bandpass filter ;-)

doubler too, they the shit

eq properly, and very little eq, Hip-Hop should be dryish not overloaded with reverb, reverb has tail, too much and its smothers a mix.