Get BASS that CUTS - Into The Lair

[@ProducerGio]

Lol at Daves face at 3:09, but excellent technique.

[@Wourghk]

So, HP filter, a little distortion, and a high-end lift to bring out the top of a bass? Sounds good to me.

[@Wendel_Kos]

in what he shows, its important to use one of those generating plugins like maxbass on the channel that gives the high end, then mix it back in with original...if you use distortion it will give a different sound (also cool)

[@Wheelly1]

Thank you. As a bass player, I noticed that smooth phonation (articulation) without any unnecessary noise like finger sliding and so on, can lead to burying in the mix. Now that becomes clearer. I will rise the highs a bit either on my bass or poweramp EQ.

[@JoshuaLoveofficial]

I love all the double up techniques Pensado uses. Its very helpful in strengthening certain decibal deficiencies. Always helpful!

[@DJILLEE]

Aphex Aural exciter also works really well for this. I usually put it on a send so I can EQ just the exciter itself. I've had this work for a dull snare drum too. Clarisonix from plug & mix seems to add harmonics nicely as well.

[@jtpinnyc]

I guess I could try this with the Waves Aural Exciter too...Dave I hope you do LOADS more videos on getting bass to sit well in a mix because it's my #1 area of difficulty and I'm sure it's the same for others too. I just can't seem to get that round, clear, balanced bass that doesn't interfere with anything else. Either it's too boomy, or it's too thin, or it tramples over everything else, or it has no definition. Whenever I hear that lovely round bass in a mix that sits clearly on its own with everything else balanced perfectly on top of it I just think aw maaaaaaaaaan......

[@LuisCasstle]

He just did another video not that long ago about getting bass to sit right. Helped me out a lot and reminded me of the usefulness of side chain compression.

[@jtpinnyc]

***** You could be right about the room - however I have everything running through ARC2 and I did the measurements quite precisely. Put it this way, the bass in well mixed music sounds insanely balanced.

[@jtpinnyc]

***** I understand it doesn't help with decay, but I don't notice any resonance with ARC. I only have one set of monitors, but I also have a good set of cans with a VRM box, just to get some alternative perspective

[@jtpinnyc]

***** Yeah it's good as long as you get to know them intimately. I have a set of ATH M-50's which are slightly bassy but I can compensate for that, plus a set of Grado's for a more "colored" consumer sound (very easy to make the top end sound brittle on these if you're not careful so again a good reference)

[@NURREDIN]

jtpinnyc How do you deal with the bass rise in the ATH headphones? I bought a pair just to try them out (I normally use Sennheiser Hd 280's) and I found them unusable because of the bump in the low to mid range frequencies.Anything mixed or recorded with them came out having too much treble. Did you just get used to them and know how to compensate?

[@JoeySchmidt74]

It's comforting to see techniques I found out about by experimentation are actually usable on poor quality recordings.

[@ulfrohdin]

Dave, if you ever go to Sweden, let me know. Dinner and drinks are on me. Seems like the least I could do to thank you for all your wisdom.

[@BillTingstadius]

Dat smile at 3:10 haha love it

[@rjbullock]

Really helpful video, even beyond it’s main topic... I never thought of LP’ing background vocals but it makes a ton of sense...

[@TheWorldTeacher]

I'm curious to know why Mr. Pensado doesn't make use of the monitor shelves on his workstation table. It seems the position of his nearfields (or should I say midfields) would be obscured by the table.

[@ItsThe1300]

Great stuff Dave! That fret noise is really cool! Sounds very powerful on my laptop speakers too!

[@cypressmuzik]

The Look On Your Face When You Stare In The Camera @ 3:08 lolol!!!... Sinister!!!... Thanks for the knowledge!.. Appreciate it!..

[@WillieNikolas]

I worked at Nyquist studio with their engineer Raz Klinghoffer, best mix engineer I've worked with so far

[@palladinwebb6135]

This is what often do for voiceover tracks and stereoizing mono files. Gr8 for sharing it with the Bass World, very helpful. BTW what is the editing sftwr?

[@NeZversSounds]

Why no comparison in the mix?

[@motiveko280]

My bass track was always sounds muddy and i couldn't help it , but now I can handle my bass sound!!! Thanks very much!!!

[@bhargavdobhal5327]

Thank You Mr Dave Pensado🙌🙌Very Helpful Video🔥🔥🔥🔥.

[@michaelkhan]

what chair does he have? dave should make a video on mixing etiquette

[@charlesbonkley]

I wanted to like this one, but I'm getting some weird phasing issues when paralleling the wet signal in with the dry. That mcDSP EQ is not linear-phase, AFAIK, but that's the only want to really mix-in an EQ'd signal.

[@fleshtonegolem]

bad ass! nice technique. :) dup'ing tracks and tweaking eq's hard is cool as hell for adding presence and punch to low end.

[@Chrisp80]

love it man thank you!

[@bernardjonathan1073]

Hi guys i was just wondering . Cant we do this by EQ? By boosting the high freq and put distortion in that freq ? Whats the difference ? Thanks!

[@sab0004]

+Bernard Jonathan I belive that, it will attenuate some of the low frequencies that makes the bass a bass, I mean, in the channel the highs will be louder tan the mid-low end, it's better too keep your eq'ed bass plus, the "details" fx channel :)

[@boondawksaints]

+Bernard Jonathan Because firstly, you don't want to effect the whole sound so you use an AUX. Secondly, we only want high-end so we filter the sound. Third, we create harmonics with different plug-ins (distortion can be used as you pointed out). Lastly, we blend to taste. Usually however, straight-up distortion can be quite unpleasant. It just smears the signal. It's almost always better to use harmonic processors that are gentle.

[@TheTeamYDKChannel]

Thats sick! It sounded so natural

[@dobrocat1]

I like the Jamerson no top end sound (to start with) a whole lot better. Just getting all the other instruments away from the bass's fundamental low range lets it rule the roost there and then there is nothing fighting guitars in the 1K range. It will be clear as a bell if that happens.

[@rhaab117]

3:06 that look hahaha, wonderful

[@jonq8714]

This guy has forgotten 100x more than I know about this shit. It's humbling.

[@OmicroneM]

Amazing Dave

[@BrokenElegance]

3:08 :D Anyways great tutorial!

[@seankeish5993]

+Broken Elegance Hahaha i just saw that

[@spatnaspolecnost]

+Broken Elegance that was so creepy, talk about serial killer stare... lol

[@BrokenElegance]

yeea that defintely creeped me out while I was watching this :D

[@kobalt77]

Thank you Dave, great tip !!!

[@hbrookes]

at 3:09...Wendy I'm HOME!!

[@cobrasunstudio1703]

Great technique!

[@PhiiRob]

Top notch, cheers!

[@octopusonfire100]

03:05 MEME MATERIAL

[@roleyruffles7913]

ha! that face was class

[@MrBothandNether]

Thank You, perfect timing. :)

[@alohaoliwa]

So generous thank you~

[@campar1043]

can anyone explain how this differers from adding high end with an eq?

[@redabitar]

By only adding high end with an eq, you might be enhancing and possibly saturating frequencies that don't even exist in the sound. If you do as he did, using a high frequency enhancer, which actually creates new harmonics ie new sound into the high frequencies, THEN boosting said frequencies, you'd be a lot better off, since the frequencies you're boosting weren't there (as clearly as they are now) in the original bass sound to begin with. Hope this clears it up for ya

[@campar1043]

Reda Bitar it does, thanks

[@genuardimusic]

He is adding harmonics which changes/adds character to the original sound, whereas EQ boost or cuts what is already there. If you have little to no high end in the recorded bass (often the case) then you would be boosting nothing. He adds harmonics, otherwise known as distortion or saturation to create the high end.

[@NURREDIN]

Why not make sure the bass sounds the way you want it before you hit record?

[@hachewie]

That would make too much sense.

[@JellyFlavoredGerman]

Because a lot of the time the mix engineer isn't the tracking engineer., or you can change your mind, or find that the bass sound you want isn't the bass sound you need, or someone made a mistake and turned a knob accidentally, or a mic wasn't on.

[@PRSOne]

As Paul said, he's a mixing engineer, not the recording engineer/producer. While the best result is to fix it at the source, sometimes that's not an option. This was a great result.

[@LuisCasstle]

If that was the case there would be no need for mix engineers! Derp 😝 Also, not all recording artists/engineers necessarily know all about frequencies.

[@NURREDIN]

Luis Casstle Any engineer that doesn't know about frequencies isn't an engineer.

[@sig310]

cool stuff!

[@AniCator]

Thanks for the vid. :)

[@jtpinnyc]

Yep you just get to know them. The bump isn't that bad, I've seen the frequency response graph.

[@Saskiequelle]

I have been told to never mix in mono. But you do it. I am confused.

[@politicsequalsgarbag]

+Saskiequelle You have to go deeper than just taking someone's word for anything, whoever it may be. After being a skeptic to incoming information for a while, you will begin to understand why absolute words such as "never" should raise big, huge red flags.

[@digipostaudio1837]

+Saskiequelle Mix in Mono give you a better picture of frequency (sometime)

[@electricfireplace5071]

+Saskiequelle Mono is for checking phase cancellation, in some cases it is also for compatibility with some systems. You don't "mix" in mono, you do a mono check every now and then to be sure you have a stereo consistency and/or phase consistency. Two signals that are not in phase will cancel out or comb-filter. When you duplicate a track, like in this scenario, you check in mono to assure you are not loosing punch due to phase cancellation.

[@RyanPMcGowan]

It's really very much the opposite. You mix in mono. When you switch to stereo it begins to sound even better.

[@electricfireplace5071]

Ryan McGowan Yes, that seems to be the trend now and it is actually a very good idea according to most of the big names out there and various articles on mixing i have found. I used to mix in stereo and check in mono or for reference but i should do the opposite. It seems the final result is way better.

[@jayne9847]

JAYHNE is going to be poppin

[@JasonAir]

Nice!!

[@Russlld]

3:20 dull vocal, guitar, and background vocals

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

I think he is doubling stuff out of necessity because the recording engineer didn't give him much to work with.

[@Acoustribute]

Lol... Next time!