3 SIMPLE Rules for the PERFECT Low End EVERY Time

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This short vid shows you how to tighten and fatten the low end of your mix without making it muddy, as well as showing you how to get your bass line sounding big on ANY system.
The video covers these 4 main points:
1. Tuning your kick to the root note of your track.
2. Fattening and widening the bass (without killing the power).
3. Carving the EQ.
4. Buss processing.
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[@maxmaxington5873]

One thing that I think is important to add is that the tuning of the kick in this demonstration isn’t always applicable. If you want your bassline to be more prominent in the subs, and you are applying less of a high pass to your bass, (and in which case more so to your kick) you don’t want the kick to be the fundamental as the tone of the kick, or the thump will clash. If you have a track that has a more prominent sub in the bassline, then you want the kick to be in key, but not on the fundamental, a third, forth, or fifth (above) is usually the answer in this case. Totally material dependant but important to consider. You can do the fundamental in this case as well but the kick needs to be quite heavily high passed which can lead to a lot less impact. The most important thing is to learn how to decipher whether the track is oriented to the kick or bass being more prominent and how to work around each scenario, which is difficult because it’a sometimes subjective, and very much based on the material. Can be a very common amateur mistake.

[@DDoubleEDouble]

Thank you for this great piece of info 😊

[@albertohilsaca4333]

amazing stuff. have been applying all your tips, my tracks have improved more in 1 week than in the past year.

[@EDMTips]

Really glad, man!

[@DJLeeStreet]

I agree been watching hundreds of tutorials and I actually really like your approach , would love to know how you get high end like all the hats and percussion to blend I always find that by the time the ride and the shaker and hats are all in you lose the individual identity of them but never no where to EQ

[@smokenashes8608]

one of the best edm tutorials available on you tube, nice work Will, your easy language and the way you describe things make the entire process so interesting :-)

[@EDMTips]

Wow, thanks!

[@cc7885]

Finally a good video about low end! Thank you dude. U've opened my mind!

[@EDMTips]

You're very welcome!

[@ML-vl7rf]

Hey man, thank you for the clear and well thought out tutorials, keep them coming!

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome! New one coming this week :)

[@gregorigreg]

I’m doing the course i just came here because at module Five when i compared my mix with your same tracks mix, your low end was Superior 🤩✌️. Thank you for your way to explain everything so easy ! You are a great teacher, direct to the point!! And English it’s not my first Language 🙌

[@platomusic9684]

first time watchin any of your videos, thanks for the tips! feel like I've learnt some valuable stuff. Subscribed and downloading your mixing guide. thank you!!!

[@EDMTips]

Thanks man!

[@royalemusicofficial95]

Hey Will, ROYALÈ here. I gotta say you’ve helped me over the last 4 years of my producing career. Your tips took my sound design to a whole different level. Even some got signed to flashover recordings, years ago. Working my way to Aramda ❤ cheers mate. Your advice always encourages me to never stop learning.

[@EDMTips]

Great to hear that! Keep up the good work, Armada is achievable too 🙂🙌🏻

[@Lovlygod]

This really helped me a lot! Good content and straight to the point with examples. Different DAW but clear explanation.

[@Rezz88mk4]

Great vid, direct and to the point. Bd and bass mixing has been a constant thorn in my side and I've had a tendency to overcompensate one way or another and have one overpowering the other/too loud/too quiet. Even as a Logic user this has helped me massively. Thumbs up and thanks

[@EDMTips]

Great to hear!

[@ayabachir8865]

thank you for sharing your wonderful tips and experience into this

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome!

[@novvel_lofi]

This was so helpful! Thanks man!

[@myriaddsystems]

Fantastic! To the point - Superb presentation by someone dealing with exactly the right subject matter THANKS

[@EDMTips]

You're very welcome! :)

[@pmumble76]

wow, your studio has come a long way since this. thanks for all the great content.

[@EDMTips]

Thanks for watching!

[@micky5237]

Another top vid Will, thanks you!

[@nekroreaper6348]

Dude honestly, youre the best guy on youtube i found to explain these things i been trying to get actual answers to. The best part is im able to apply the same techniques to my own genre of metal and in LPX . Fuck yes bro .

[@EDMTips]

Properly good to get a comment like this :)

[@amanitebg]

Thanks man, such a usefull video! The way you describe things is very nice.

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome! Appreciate the support :)

[@BorisBeing]

This actually did the trick and cleaned up my muddy mirky low end, thank you sir!!

[@EDMTips]

Excellent!

[@ubuandeyelbme]

That was solid for 5 minutes. Good and concise examples. Thanks!!

[@EDMTips]

Glad it was helpful!

[@richardvilla2746]

Love your tutorials! 👍🏼❤️

[@EDMTips]

Thanks, Richard!

[@tendertales1]

Will I appreciate and admire you and want nothing more than your success. This is why I am telling you that I have unsubscribed from your mailing list simply because your pushing your products too strong and it gets bordering spam at times. I want your growth and this is why I wanted to give you this feedback. I think the emails need to tone down on the mailing frequency/subject lines. And as always, keep doing what you're doing. I have published 2 tracks because of you & am so glad I found your channel!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@reese3344]

I appreciate you for NOT pausing in between clips where you’re trying to show the before and after. A lot of times in other tutorials it’s harder to hear the changes because they pause for 3 seconds 🤷🏻‍♂️ and then go “before- pause 3 seconds, after”

[@dayzrustream]

Thanks for the video! I really like the technics described here. My only concern is the audible distortion heard in a moment you add a compressor. I really think viewers should take their time to learn about sine waves addition and subtraction, as it really makes a huge difference in the low end. For example: - If kick and bass are a bit off phase, it will result in a weird looking waveform. It'll ruin the bass eventually. - If you apply EQ, it will cause phase shifts in some frequency regions. - If bass and kick start clipping at any stage of mixing, the whole low end would be ruined by distorted waveform - you can't then use your headroom (loudness) properly. - Getting a solid bass foundation is crucial, as all higher frequencies will later be added on top of that fat bass sine wave. - If you apply compression with too fast attack and release, it will cause sound glitches as a sine wave would be cut too fast. - If your bass is playing different notes, they will have different loudness (higher notes tend to be louder), and you'll need to control the bass notes-related volume. So I just want to say that there are many other things to take into consideration while using these techniques. Getting a nice low end is still quite a task for myself and I wish everyone learns how to produce it properly.

[@PaulBrownclk-me]

Excellent tips Will, thank you!

[@EDMTips]

No worries!

[@pentacle9783]

Wow! Best Advice Truly- Thank You for sharing. It Helps. The Struggle has been "real"

[@EDMTips]

You are so welcome!

[@meczem]

ur youtube is under rated thanks for the videos i learn alot

[@marcovincelli3873]

Thanks for your amazing tutorial

[@einzigkeit7216]

Love this song! Great !

[@chizknocka]

Will, at what point did you lower the volume on both (bass/kick) tracks?

[@nma2354]

Thanks homes! This was amazing

[@EDMTips]

No worries!

[@gateurizomma6244]

Thanks! I love videos with fasts explanation , no bullshit....and very useful..

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome!

[@PatrickObiang]

Very useful tutorial. Thanx so much!

[@EDMTips]

No worries!

[@mukinha]

Great Tip!

[@EDMTips]

Glad it was helpful!

[@marcomamoto]

nice track at the background!!!

[@EDMTips]

Thanks...it's coming out soon! ;) Will keep you posted

[@RogerIElliott]

Love the sound of that track Will

[@EDMTips]

Cheers Rog!

[@4str0m3ch]

In all seriousness, is there anywhere I can get this?

[@EDMTips]

The track? I'll finish it off and release it :)

[@4str0m3ch]

Where do you release?

[@EDMTips]

Aah, the usual places; Trackitdown, Beatport, etc.

[@destroyerbardak]

I just love u jaja, thank you for sharing your knowledge 👀

[@EDMTips]

Happy to help!

[@BrooseWayniac]

nice video! i really try to make a huge lowend in conjunction with the kick andlet them groove... just like everything on Heinz Music (especially Daniel Jaeger) can you help on laying down a good tutorial on sounddesign, gridplacing and mixing the lowend groove? thank you

[@alexanderhobart1840]

Great video. Well explained and clear (Y)

[@EDMTips]

Thank you!

[@fischfreek]

you are a hero as always

[@EDMTips]

😎

[@jdstarek]

Wow, great tips.

[@EDMTips]

Thanks :)

[@TonyOldskool]

Great vid, an updated one would be cool with live 11

[@jonburd5791]

Hey Will, love the vid! I just have a question regarding the kick and bass buss. Should it be used when first forming a song and mixing or should it be used for when mastering?

[@manav_bali]

This track is 🔥

[@EDMTips]

Thanks!

[@manav_bali]

@@EDMTips Any plans of releasing it?

[@EDMTips]

@@manav_bali Not at the moment

[@the1bit]

This is really impressive. Could you please help me regarding the Audio Effect names? I cannot identify them. Thanks in advance.

[@Variable1000]

thx man

[@deadmenwalking3013]

Nice one.

[@patrickhall7884]

Hey Will, thanks for these videos. Would this process take place before your video on mixing tracks with the pink noise tip? In that video the kick and bass were seperate and not being bussed together. So is this step something you would do before exporting the stems for mixdown? I'm a bit confused as you can see. Ta

[@andrewmusic3477]

Thanks for help 💪

[@EDMTips]

No problem 👍

[@gbigbo_zjebeezjeboo]

Excellent video/explanation ! One question. You are sending the kick and bass to a separate track (K+B Buss) that you created. Can't you achieve the same by means of grouping the kick & bass tracks into a group track by means of the group tracks feature in Ableton or is there a difference ?

[@nichttuntun3364]

I'm not too fond about EDM and most videos considering this genre have not much value information for general mixing purposes. Can't say that about your excellent video. Thank you.

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome!

[@prod.lavishtheone160]

great video!

[@EDMTips]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed 🙂

[@paperkire1255]

really useful video

[@maximegandolfo2253]

Awesome !

[@EDMTips]

Cheers man :)

[@Flux_One]

Great stuff

[@EDMTips]

Thanks!

[@Beatamins]

super tip, thank you!

[@EDMTips]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rosietteaudiolabel5376]

Oh man. Love that #Track ♥

[@EDMTips]

Thanks!

[@dj_kik]

Excellent Will

[@EDMTips]

Thank you :)

[@jazzattak]

Really neat insights Will..thanks, I will be a regular visitor sir!

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome! 🙂

[@N1Xofficial]

can you make a full video on fattening the bass using saturation / hass effect (an in depth one) ??

[@berrystockschen7519]

Great vid

[@EDMTips]

Glad it was helpful! Anything else you're struggling with?

[@ryankeane6614]

Nice one but got me thinking if your creating higher end on the bass eg duplicate and go higher octave or the harmonics from the bit crusher will that not clash with the chords etc when you lay them down ?

[@robvilla_YT]

Good video. Subscribed

[@EDMTips]

Thanks

[@Stacity]

THANKS WILL PITCH SHIFTER IS A GOOD OPTION TO OTHER THAN TRANSPOSE

[@RandomNoise]

nice tips subbed

[@EDMTips]

😎

[@abhidmusic7819]

very good info

[@EDMTips]

Glad you think so!

[@RaptureMusicOfficial]

Hi, at which frequencies do you have to lowcut your kick and bass? When I don't lowcut, then the sub (0-30hz) is often overwhelming on headphones, creating headphone earache. When I lowcut it (at 30,40 ot 50hz) then it's much better, but it's sounding very thin then. Where to lowcut, and at which freqs (hz) to warm up the bass frequencies? 50-100/120hz? Which exactly? Thanks!

[@proverbalizer]

hmmm, I've never thought of bussing the kick and bass together since I always send the kick to a drum bus along with the snares and all other percussion (I produce Afrobeats, so there's a ton of other percussion besides the kick). I wonder what the pros and cons are of doing it either way

[@BarRashi]

this may be a strange question but hope u can answer, since we don't want frequencies bumping into each other, why not make the kick a different note than the bass? lets say on the same scale.. so they won't fight on that area in the spectrum? I mean.. we cut off parts from the eq to let one another stick out a bit but why not just put them on different places so we don't have to cut out so much?

[@brokeniphone9698]

I got this tip from Morgan Page, tunning the kick and bass on a 5th note for getting natural harmonics i.e Kick in G and Bass in D. Should I keep them in the same note or try the circle of 5th?

[@EDMTips]

Absolutely try both and see which sits the best!

[@apexmusic7500]

Thanks for the great tutorial! Instead of having a bus - does it make a difference to build a group with kick & bass instead and add saturation/compression to the group channel?

[@EDMTips]

Nope! Either works fine :)

[@karimhaimoud9975]

Great video 👍 sir can u make video how to do mixing and mastering please thanks

[@EDMTips]

This should help! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZSQcn-BlrV5rNE&

[@sDanceVEVO]

thanks!!

[@EDMTips]

No worries!

[@ianoskadev]

Doesn't make the tip 2 bass stereo instead of mono? If i would make same steps like you, and then i would use Bass Mono on Utility, is it that bass will have space, but still will be mono?

[@serotoneselector5128]

Did you finish this track? if not could you perhaps show the midi arrangement for the bass and lead so I can use the samples?

[@TuningFreak23]

Can you make a video on multiband compression?

[@Hammerhead1306]

Thanks for this video! One question left open: What's a good technique to find out the key of the kick?

[@NOTOTO84]

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[@Hammerhead1306]

@@NOTOTO84 thanks mate! Acutually never used this tool before :-)

[@jazzbolt20]

It seems the effect of redux in version 11 looks different. The downsample parameter is missing. And there is no soft button. What manipulations can be performed in version 11 for a similar effect?

[@NoOne-vs4lx]

This is a tune!!! Have you released it anywhere yet?

[@helioz4886]

Thanks

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome :)

[@wired99999999]

I don't get it, if you tune your kick to the same note as your bass, wouldn't that mean that they would occupy the same frequencies and clash with each other?

[@skimmingstone3energyrecords]

Thanks Darling.

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome Stone.

[@HeySOLD]

if u want ur kick to be hitting c# too, then wouldn't u just have it hitting c#, like that is the note that u select for the kick drum to play in the midi clip's note section ??

[@gotramusic1964]

Can someone explain to me how putting the kick and bass on the same root note stops fighting frequencies? Surely that’s puts them in exactly the same frequency range, unless your an octave up which would sound weak. Am I missing something? Great tutorial

[@EDMTips]

Great question; answer is...sometimes it doesn't sound better, and further processing is required to make them gel without masking. However, having a kick...say... 4 semitones above the root of the track, for example, can result in dissonance in the low frequencies which - more often than not - results in a flabby, muddy mess.

[@pouyagharedaghi113]

Hello mate, why did you add an stereo effect to the bass? Shouldn’t be the bass always in mono ??

[@EDMTips]

Not necessarily, but it's always good to be aware that you can run into phase issues.

[@chelsealugosioprrator6022]

okay when fattening the bass what are you using?? when i open saturator or any other effect it looks nothing like what youre using :/

[@pedrocatoira2695]

💛

[@patguitar77]

Hi, I have one question, kick and bass track must be in mono and bass spread track in stereo?

[@EDMTips]

Not necessarily, but the kick and bass below about 130Hz should be in mono (or almost mono)

[@patguitar77]

@@EDMTips Thank you Will. I will try with M-S eq!

[@bassyjay6281]

Will.. your a darling for sharing this 😉

[@Renaxelo]

what if the bass freq has same as the kick , in 44,7hz ?

[@jazzpote4316]

Would be good to have a before / after at the end.

[@rocioaguilarsanchez2472]

I am listening to myself when I run the audio through the bus (meaning my headphones or microphone due to the monitor) any advice?

[@EDMTips]

Change the input setting in routing

[@zeepster]

Leveling?

[@NightCityTunes]

what is the subgenre of this EDM?

[@maximkagarmanov8587]

hi! track id in the beginning 🙏

[@kimrunic5874]

3 bars of 4 and one of 7/8 - radical

[@Lika-fg7bn]

Hyy please write music name, very cool.::D

[@Variable1000]

i like the track too btw. link it maybe ? best. V

[@EDMTips]

Maybe I'd best finish it!

[@humanexe5451]

What headphones are you using?

[@EDMTips]

Sennheiser HD 650s

[@richardgossmann]

I would like to purchase this track! Could i have a link to it please Will

[@EDMTips]

I never released it!

[@richardgossmann]

Could we work something out? Please 🙂

[@frankiedubz214]

I really like this track too. You should finish it Will. Bomb video once again thank you brother

[@EDMTips]

@@frankiedubz214 Thanks! You're welcome :)

[@shadowmaw1909]

@@EDMTips you should definitely release it, mate! I see a lot of people asking for it aswell and I think I speak for all of them by asking you to at least somehow send us a promo of it 😃