Phil McGowan is the founder of McGowan Soundworks and this is an excellent extended walkthrough of his mix for "Duel of the Snakes" from the Netflix Series Cobra Kai Season 3. He has given us permission to share it with the Production Expert Community. This is what Phil says about the video.
This is a full overview of how I mixed one part of "Duel of the Snakes" from the final episode of Cobra Kai Season 3. This music cue by Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson is part of the big climactic action sequence at the end of the episode.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS WITHIN!!
I go over how my session is laid out before going through each major element of the mix, diving into the details of how I mixed each of these elements to make up the complete mix.
You'll also learn how I organize my session for stemming before having a final listen of my mix versus the composer's reference mix.
You can hear this cue and more on the Cobra Kai Season 3 soundtrack, which is out now!
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:51 Ref
04:24 Session Overview
08:24 Strings
08:58 I/O & Session Layout
11:39 Strings (For Real)
21:56 Brass
26:22 Percussion
38:32 Drums
52:54 Bass
56:13 Guitars
1:02:40 Synths
1:08:37 Choir
1:15:18 VCAs
1:21:33 Stems
1:25:19 Final Mix vs Ref
1:27:11 Thanks For Watching!
Over the course of his career, Phil McGowan has recorded & mixed music for several award winning Films, Television Shows, and Video Games and has become a recognized face in the music scoring industry. He has collaborated with prolific composers such as Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans, Trevor Morris, Jack Wall, Atli Örvarsson, Nathan Whitehead, Bobby Tahouri, and John Paesano.
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