No worries mate. And yeah that's literally everything I did to the bass in the recording. Generally I know mixing should all be done listening to a full mix, but I do like to EQ and blend things in groups before I blend everything together.
Usually I start off with the drums and get them sounding as good as I can and make sure all of the levels work properly together. Then I'll send them all to a drum group. Then in about 90% of cases I also send the drum group to a parallel compression group to fatten things up a bit.
After that I usually EQ the guitars and bass together to make sure they're not sounding totally different from one another. I can't honestly say I have any specific plan for what to do here, I just try to do whatever I think sounds best. I usually just listen to each guitar track individually and make sure there are no frequencies that definately need cutting/boosting. Then I'll send all of the guitar tracks to a group and EQ them again on the group, maybe add a slight amount of multiband compression. After that I send them to a parallel compression bus (settings for this I have posted previously, but I basically just run rcomp with fast attack and release and a pretty high ratio).
Then I'll mix the bass in with the drums to try and get it sitting at a decent level. Again I don't follow any specific rules, just whatever sounds good... And then I'll also bring up the guitars and start to EQ the bass to fit in with the guitars a bit better, I often find adding a bit more distortion helps with making the bass sit right with the guitars, for this I usually just crank the drive knob in PSP vintage warmer a little more
After that I'm usually relatively happy with levels and everything, and I bring up vocals tracks and any lead guitar/synth parts and make sure they're all sitting properly.
It's much easier to mix from this position because instead of having to bring up every drum track seperately or every guitar track, I just tend to mix using the buses, as I've usually managed to get all of the seperate elements sounding half-decent, and then I obviously just alter any of the single tracks from there if they need to be made quieter or louder.
If I'm ever unsure what to do about EQ in any situation, I tend to create a pretty sharp spike boosting quite a bit and just run it up and down the frequency spectrum to see what parts of the sound I think need bringing out and what parts need taking away. I usually find it easier to do this with a sharp spike upwards in volume rather than downwards in volume as for me atleast it tends to be easier to hear a lot of something rather than the absence of something.
And that pretty much tends to be about it dude...
Not sure if this is exactly what you wanted, but if you have any other questions feel free to ask mate.
Cheers.
