Drop G# tuning band help needed!

[kool98769]

So, I'm recording my friend's band. They're doing like, a meloidic djent thing that's pretty neat. however, one thing threw me off. Their bassist plays in the same octave as the guitars.

So, when it comes time to do mixing, should I just end up putting more subs into the bass than normal? Because I'm probably gonna have to probably go a little lighter on cutting low off of guitars, which leaves even less space for the bass.

So...more bass subs+sidechaining kick?

 

[AEL89]

To my ears - I don't find guitars tuned low get more affected by filtering than higher tuned guitars. The bass will still sound like a bass because it has a fuck load more harmonics than the guitars - just grit up the mid range - especially around 800hz. You're best bet might be to remove more of the 150 - 250 hz region than usual and make sure the sub lows are insanely tight but very big. There's a dude on here (username SigmundFreud if I remember right) who's good at it. His mixes are scooped in a really cool way.

 

[Vinny]

So the E string on the bass is tuned up two whole steps while the guitar is tuned down? Doesn't make much sense to me.

 

[ahjteam]

Highpass the guitars at 100hz or even as higher if needed (but use gentle slope). If the bass is in the same octave range as the guitars, the guitar has no business going down there. It will sound like shit anyway at that tuning and if the guitars and bass play super tight together, this should be super fine. I once tried to do that super massive low end thing when I encountered pretty tightly edited multitracks on the Sturgis forums, so I highpassed guitars at the group at at 285hz(!) on this clip and at least with those guitar settings, it sounded better than the guitars highpassed at 50, 100 and 150hz on that particular clip. Between 120 and 300hz the low end focus started to shift from guitars to the bass guitar, low end masking reduced by a lot and I really liked that. But eventho I highpassed the guitars at almost 300hz, the graph looked like this (guitar is orange, bass is pink) since the slope was pretty gentle (I think it was 12dB per octave)

 

[kool98769]

So the E string on the bass is tuned up two whole steps while the guitar is tuned down? Doesn't make much sense to me.

well, it's because the low octave on a bass of G# is SO LOW. silly kids, I tell ya.