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!