How to Mix. Mixing with Mike Chav – Lesson 1 : Kick Drum from Mike Chav on Vimeo.

Very informative video from super engineer Mike Chav giving you tips on how to mix a kick drum. I love watching these sorts of videos because I really enjoy mixing but I’m self-taught so I always pick up on tips that I wouldn’t have tried otherwise. I like how he says that he tends to start most mixes with the vocals because they’re the focal point. I always start with the drums! I should try that. And once he gets into the kick drum, he shows how he duplicates it and mixes the kick in 3 frequency bands with their own compression. I remember my man KLC (of Beats by the Pound) told me about that technique a while back but I never tried it. For the Kid Sister album we got another big-name engineer, Tony Maserati, to mix some of the tracks. I watched him work and he did that on my kicks for “Get Fresh”.