more presence to the bass
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reg3n
Señor Miembro
Change the arrangement first so the bass is noticeable and not fighting rythm, change the guitar too so it doesn't go over the bass on the lows, then solo your bass, check with a spectrum and eq where's it's presence (should be somewhere like 1k -3k) then take your other instruments and make small holes on them... a great deal of mids distortion helps on basses... nothing that hasn't been discussed on this forum before.
ok, ill do. its a simple example. recabinet , pan r-l guitar with rectifier cab impulse. the bass just double tracked one di the another with gain. ola's bass guitar video
StefTD
Member
is the bass double tracked (so two different performances) or did you use the same take, one with distortion and one with the di?
Double tracked bass is going to sound pretty untight, use the same take, copy it and then apply the different fx on it.
Besides that, you could group both of the tracks, put an eq on them and compress them together, I sometimes even use a bit
of saturation on this part, too.
I am actually able to hear the bass pretty well even on my laptop speakers, the main problem is, guitars are covering it a bit and
imho it doesn't sound very tight.
Double tracked bass is going to sound pretty untight, use the same take, copy it and then apply the different fx on it.
Besides that, you could group both of the tracks, put an eq on them and compress them together, I sometimes even use a bit
of saturation on this part, too.
I am actually able to hear the bass pretty well even on my laptop speakers, the main problem is, guitars are covering it a bit and
imho it doesn't sound very tight.
DanLights
Santa Hat Forever
double tracked the same track? what the hell does that mean? did you record it twice or just split the signal but recorded it once?
StefTD
Member
seems like your not a native English speaker (no problem, me neither 
) where do you come from-it might be easier for
a sneapster that speaks the same language to help you out abit.
besides that-the only way to tighten the bass in the way I meant was to edit it or to retrack it, especially for bass, a
well played track always helps-I learned this the hard way and really worked on my bass playing.
) where do you come from-it might be easier for a sneapster that speaks the same language to help you out abit.
besides that-the only way to tighten the bass in the way I meant was to edit it or to retrack it, especially for bass, a
well played track always helps-I learned this the hard way and really worked on my bass playing.
StefTD
Member
tempe
Captain Midnight
Hey dude, the thing that will help this recording the most is tighter performances from the guitar and bass. That's half your battle right there.
jENK
Producer. Engineer. Mixer
Run one D.I. track with Sansamp on it and blend it with the mic track. Be careful of phasing. Also, try boosting 4kHz on the mic track for more attack. Of course this doesn't work for all projects but it's a good starting point.
DanLights
Santa Hat Forever
Cuando dicen "tight" quieren decir que este mucho mas apegado a la claqueta, y el bajo y la guitarra tienen que ser tocados muy "tight" entre ellos para que se pueda trabajar porque si no, al intentar sacar mas presencia al bajo solo logras que suene mas desastroso y "muddy". En otras palabras, es importantísimo que este bien grabado (bien ejecutado, mejor dicho) para que suene bien, ningún truco de mezcla sirve con un performance mediocre.
Cualquier cosa que no entiendas bien me preguntas, somos muchos hispano parlantes aquí, hasta tenemos un hilo oficial en la parte Off-topic
Cualquier cosa que no entiendas bien me preguntas, somos muchos hispano parlantes aquí, hasta tenemos un hilo oficial en la parte Off-topic
StefTD
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