



The kick and bass merely have to occupy different frequency ranges, ie. I'm sorry but everything mentioned so far is pure complication. This is how i get my drums and bass everythime and as long as the players are good.these ideas work.ĮDIT: i feel maybe these ideas are far below your experience but damn.they work for me.i basically got my approach from reading Bobby Owsinski's Mixing/mastering books. I compress kicks about 4-5 db with a ratio of 4:1 and my drums are always parallel compressed with the compressed subgroup jacked up a bit on the bottom and top.gently. Some poorly recorded basses need the sub reinstated between 40-60 I like to push kicks a bit at 60hz and dip em out at 250- 500.give em a little shot at 1khz for creamy and 3-4 khz cut snap.īass is the wild pending on how it's 's gotta fill in those low mids that are mud for so many other instruments and boxiness for the kick.so i look and 200-250, 700-800, 1500 as points for the bass to possibly boost for warmth or clarity. Hmm.i don't know.i haven't been at this long but i can get the kick and bass where i want them.and separate in the mix Also, I'm fully aware of room accustics and monitors being key to frequency balance. I can foresee a bunch of people falling back on the old "there's no correct answer" and "all mixes are different". Any recommendations? Perhaps I'm looking for gain pumping? I'm not sure. My stuff is electro-house, four on the floor, with a heavy kick as the foundation, and a bpm of usually 128. Am I right to compress them together, or should I compress them separately. I've just recently started compressing my kick and bass together with encouraging, although ultimatly lackluster, results. It's not a problem with space I always sidechain the 20hz-400hz range on top of carving opposing space, cutting room in the bass track for my subby kick. The kick and bass tracks never seem to fit perfectly and I always have trouble taming resonating frequencies. I've been in the audio production world for quite some time now, and am well-versed in many areas however, the low end frequencies of my mixes are always a struggle.
