Category Archives for Bass
DeEssing the Low End?
DeEss the Low End? How is that even possible when there aren’t any S’s in the bottom end? Well truthfully it’s not possible but what I am trying to achieve with this post is to flip your thinking on dealing with the lower frequency problems and treat them like we would with the higher frequencies […]
Continue readingSidechaining Bass Like Jaycen Joshua
By this point in time I think almost every producer knows what sidechaining is even if they don’t produce EDM style records. Ever since electronic producers made sidechaining a staple in that genre it has slowly made its way into other genre’s as well; one of them being hip hop. So a few weeks ago […]
Continue readingManaging Bass in a Mixing Session
The multi-track session files for this tutorial are no longer available, sorry for the inconvenience. I decided to go with the bottom end for this tutorial because in this particular record I had to go above and beyond what I would normally do to get my bass to work. On top of that the […]
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4 Things That Help Me Mix the Low End
Once you feel like you are starting to understand this whole mixing shtick, it almost always feels like there’s one thing that you just can’t figure out. What am I talking about? Mixing the low end, of course. Now the low end could mean a million different things to a million different people but for […]
Continue readingMixing Kick and Bass Without EQ
When we think of how to mix our kick and bass, the first thing that usually comes to mind is… how are we going to treat the extreme low-end sub frequencies? Although it is important to get the low-end right, I believe that that is just the tip of the iceberg for the kick […]
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