LOW END CHECKLIST: Are You Doing These Things?

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[@DarkSideofSynth]

The thumndowners did not realise they've received professional consultation for free, watchable and re-watchable anytiime they like, wherever they like. Back in the day, you had to a) know who to rely on; b) move your ass an GO THERE; and c) pay and hope you got your notes right and will remember. Yet, these are the same kind of people who could not function for a week without their precious smartphones; they could probably hardly even find their way back home in their own city ;) David will understand: perle ai porci ;) Pearls to the pigs. And I love pigs so... sorry piggies!:)))

[@DarkSideofSynth]

@@mixbustv Figurati. E' la pura verità. Buon fine settimana!

[@LetMeDieLord]

I love, love, love your comment!

[@DarkSideofSynth]

@@LetMeDieLord Thanks

[@NickCent]

damn right! I've travelled to London 12 years back for getting info like this... Now I'm here to see if this guy is doing it right, and yes, man , you're a great person! Glad you're around and push info and inspiration! There's so much involved in music production, one always feels they are forgetting stuff, and a re-cap is always nice. Talk to us about truncation and how bouncing a vsti synth in different bit-depths will sound different to the source (live playback). I've been bouncing the Virus Ti in REAPER in 64-bit, and only then, was the 3d image there. Even 32 bit files sounded flatter to the original digitally synthesized source sound (Virus ti USB). We're talking no converters here - it really was an eye opener for me.

[@makrowelle]

Preach!

[@Barncore]

I wrote out the checklist for anyone like me who has the information retention of a goldfish: 1. How's the performance of the musician? 2. How good is the instrument? 3. Check the phase between DI and amp 4. Volume ride each note of the bass if you have to (most important) 5. For specific notes that pop out use a dynamic EQ. Or multiband compressor if very inconsistent 6. Split the bass into "lows" and "everything else" (then you could ride the fader on just the low end for example, or compress one and blend it) 7. Use Meldoyne to extract a MIDI track from the audio signal and then blend the MIDI instrument (e.g. synth bass) underneath. 8. Saturate the mids and low mids (not the subs) to help it be heard in a mix better, and to help it translate to smaller speakers better

[@dablizzoduve4576]

Tnx bro..I found it helpful on d second watch....

[@nersonangelo]

Thank you much

[@pco2004]

d'man!

[@mantra3000]

You rule, Nick!

[@LoneWolf-yl5yb]

Audio engineering institutions hate you for this free knowledge!

[@edgarasjokubauskas629]

You are a LEGEND. ALL. THIS. KNOWLEDGE. FOR FREE... 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🐐🐐🐐✨

[@gaudinni]

Thank David!

[@akumusik3582]

Fader Riding 🎚️ Volume! First line of attack 💯

[@lahattec]

Basstastic!

[@motafov]

its so obvious that this person is a master of his trade, extremely useful info as always

[@axis_8]

You are fxxx blessing! Thank you!

[@deeseen3495]

Great stuff man

[@noiseinthebasement8139]

Great discussion and good ideas, thanks, David!

[@rasmusfris3878]

Thanks for a lot of great ideas and info !

[@liamhebden8857]

Thanks for the phase advice

[@pco2004]

Another legendary video from a legend.

[@joshd265]

Such a great comprehensive list

[@1loveMusic2003]

What a great video!!

[@OshadhaChandikaChamp]

Thank you so much

[@jlx_music4365]

The synth-bass trick is huge. It's popular in cinematic music as well, as contra-basses become super muddy. But if you dial in a bass-synth, you have that "wow" effect.

[@djvoid1]

Loads of gold advice here!

[@SynkopateUK]

best engineer advice i've come across

[@JS-vh4yq]

I salute you once again David. You are just so inspiring! Thanks you.

[@josephforrest3713]

Damn, that was awesome lol Mind blown!

[@joesayle2213]

Keep up the good work mate ! quality content

[@emjayguitar3742]

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar

[@michaeltablet8577]

Thanks for all you do. I record country and gospel music but so much of what you teach transfers to any genre. Thanks again and God bless you and yours!

[@djabthrash]

Such valuable info... Thanks !

[@RodrigoLana]

Excelente!

[@benjaminmagambo3849]

I’m a very old fan of yours, and I can testify of your consistency in term of genuinely teaching and helping us! Thank you so much ! The volume trick is by far the most important one...

[@CHUCHOMERCHAN]

brilliant as allways....regards from colombia

[@DarkRattlehead]

Riding IS the most important thing, you spoke some truth here my friend. Especially on messy performances, it prevents from using N compressors, where N is an integer equal to too many!

[@dahlbaker]

Get that bass "pleked."

[@8bit_misfit]

Using melody to get the midi signal to tuck under sub bass..this is gold, thank you. I’ve got some circumstances that I already know this would help with, thank you!

[@gandthefewrecords]

I just love listening to this guy. Idk what it is but his voice is mesmerizing 😂

[@LoneWolf-yl5yb]

I can't stop myself from appreciating u sir.🙏💜

[@mixbustv]

Thank you!

[@manloofficial534]

Great things to apply, yesterday I was mixing a track and I couldn't feel the same bass as my reference, the problem was that I didn't had enough harmonic content on the bass, and I was applying the R-Bass from waves in wrong freq, to low in that case I changed to 136 Hz, and I get the sound I needed. As always great content and really happy that you confirm some things that I was already doing without being sure if they were correctly. Thanks for all the content this channel is gold.

[@RadiAsian]

excellent

[@Rhythmattica]

Dooode... Your a channel thats a gift that keeps on giving.... I agree whole heartly with every point/recommendations you share....... In every video !! So many things that I discovered myself, but some forgotten... only for you top remind me of the importance of those musical/audio discoveries... Having not read all the comments... This maybe mentioned.. but if not... and i know you would agree.... If you are recording a Bass player, a bass tech / guitar tech, can save you from other issues dave points out... New Strings, Right Tension, Neck and truss rod in harmony.... Intonation, ect... My bass, for 20 years had a neck issue... Then ."AAHHHHHH" , One guy fixed the neck ., and ruled them all.... Ive put new strings, setup all pickups, bridge and intonation to the point, it is the bass i knew it could be.... If only I could go back and play those bass lines again.........Well , i could,.... but , Riding levels, smashing it with BWL seemed to do the job.... ;)

[@ractorstudios]

Wow so much good shit here

[@juancan123]

This is a very good video

[@nichttuntun3364]

Useful as always. Thank you :)

[@mika461983]

uZZZZeFULL

[@nichttuntun3364]

@@mika461983 :)

[@JamesReyes01]

Thank you Van Damme as always!

[@migibeats104]

Van Damme for true😁

[@seanrimada8571]

Good video

[@oledahl.]

My highlight of the day when I see a new video from you David! Flex the badge! 😁❤️🤟

[@thedormantmonkey]

Thanks a lot David! The checklist was perfect!

[@yaredkatani]

As always high quality stuff. I am an old and deaf wanna be Mix student. Read a lot of books, but your videos are an eye openers. Every time I watch something from your channel I got an enlightment. I must one day repay You. Ty.

[@mixbustv]

Happy to help!

[@tutubeos]

Nice! I recently added midi synth bass to my played bass guitars mainly to have consistent frequencies below 80 Hz… and it’s working amazingly well with rock music. I have 2 tips to add to your excellent checklist: 1) be sure that you can hear the bass frequencies (speakers, headphones, room treatment). 2) check bass masking from other tracks

[@DavidJonesAirway]

I mix an album using ur tips , really helped

[@mikewallace1270]

Yesterday I bought Waves Bass Rider. Get it it’s great!!

[@JasonMontgomery]

Nice Bapho shirt and skull tats homie, thanks for the advice.

[@Middlestepofficial]

Hi David, one more great video as always. Thumbs up! 👍 I'm in a process of making a very similar video, namely a friend of mine asked me how to record heavy bass for metal, so I will follow up soon on this interesting topic. As I'm a contrabass player myself, I can tell that the biggest problem people have is the monitoring part and the untreated rooms. Low end in a mix can be biggest issue to hear and work on it thus. One trick as a workaround is to export the mix and listen to it elsewhere, on headphones also, so one can have at least a rough picture of what is happening in that spectrum.

[@meetix4541]

Great video. I would love to see a video with sound examples of what type of synth bass that sounds good when layering with an electric bass.

[@petter9078]

The better I feel like I have become at mixing, the more I end up at this channel somehow. This is both a positive, and a negative I guess. Since most of these I feel could be due to the content being is a certain way. Either way, I really appreciate the tips you give.

[@cesargonzalezbueno3359]

A simple way to ride basses is using a plugin like "Bass Rider" by Waves Audio.

[@marcel.kovacic]

something like a square wave filtered would layer well under a bass guitar

[@maxmaxington5873]

A tip I’d like to share regarding phase is that you can use (without going overboard on the visual stuff) an oscilloscope to see if you are getting any cancellation. I use schulz audio for this.

[@StrzBtz]

fucking love this guy. thanks again

[@CoolBreezeMusic7]

Wow seems obvious now, but that Melodyne trick is brilliant! Didn't realize you could extract MIDI from that !

[@GabrielPerboni]

“ without hearing the material it’s pretty much impossible to spot what the problem is in that particular case…”. Fuck yeah! I wish more people were responsible as you are when teaching about audio… Really cool… Let’s bring a T-shirt with this quote…

[@GabrielPerboni]

Hey, David! I believe the join button is something that KZbin is Geo fencing… I’m from Brazil and I do not have it here for your channel although I can see it in other channels…

[@seanrimada8571]

Sorry Dude. I am still missing those instructional videos, the year has been a little hard... Looking forward to being a solid member all of 2020 :D. Sounds great!!! Really great great Channel and effort, Mixbus Dave is the Ish

[@simonslee73]

Waves Bass Rider does a pretty good job of riding bass

[@spacecadet3879]

Great tips, Could you give some tips for 808/Sub bass?

[@sarahtonin4649]

Great advice. I love bass. I love playing it, especially with a tight drummer. Bass was the first thing I ever got paid to play. Guitar players (which I mostly am) are not going to like this, but speaking of masking, your guitar may sound fantastic by itself with its own fat bottom end, but in a mix I roll it off whenever the bass is playing, using automation on an EQ. If you have a muddy mix, an indistict bass guitar, this may be the fix. Can you do a part two video on low end talking about getting the kick and bass working together? That is still challenging for me and probably lots of others. Thanks. You are great. (¿De donde eres? Amo tu acento. )

[@buddhabinaural]

Great info as always but something people watching this need to know is he can't train your ears, you still need to train your ears for these tips and techniques to work. Spending years practicing and learning to hear properly is key.

[@fantaztikbeatz]

True indeed

[@seanrimada8571]

Another common scenario: I have the stems, what sort of engineering / technicalities I should be aware of? I am your grandma and need the obvious being clarified. I personally had some things here and there with stems being in 48000 and my daw in 44100... figured them out but info will help a ton, even to those who already have a workflow when receiving stems. You are great man!!

[@oledahl.]

@sean rimada indeed, he sure is!

[@Weaverbeats]

the midi trick is key

[@LetMeDieLord]

Heck yea. Being more proud to be a member with every video:D ("Flex the badge"...Hahahahaha!)

[@oledahl.]

LukeTheDuke as I was given a welcome to the family by David, I allow myself to say welcome to the family Luke! Nice to have you onboard! Together we are one! And, yess, flex the badge! Haha 😂

[@LetMeDieLord]

@@oledahl. Let's do a nice variation on the popular family wall poster: On this Channel We do calming frequencies that are getting annoyed We do sidechaining compressors to help others We do saturation on dried out signals We let bass elements share the low end fairly We don't judge analog hardware by the color of its sound We let dry signals and their squashed counterparts live side by side - in parallel We do automation to let everyone's voice be heard We use the High-Pass Filter responsibly We use PRO-tools in every DAW We record We mix We master We do family

[@detective4719]

Man, great video! Riding the bass is something I’ve often overlooked. I have a bass that has both the woofy notes and the notes that just disappear. I normally used the parallel trick you mentioned. I was wondering if you think the “Rider” plug in by waves would be sufficient in this duty or do you think it’s much better to just do it manually and write in the automation?

[@VictorLee335]

Potential question... Could you share some of your approaches in mixing string ensembles or horn sections?

[@davejohnsonmusic]

When you say to ride the fader of the bass, do you print that to a new track, or do you just have the automation run as you're mixing? Lots of awesome tips here man. Thanks!

[@musicryandave]

Have any recording or mixing tips for the upright bass?

[@zwsh89]

Any tips for unmasking low end without making midrange elements thin, weak, or harsh?

[@mago97615]

Hello , what you mean by : 1° Ride each note of the Bass and 2 Split the bass into "lows" and "everything else" How to split that ( if you don't use a multiband compressor , what is the other solution) Thank you

[@BibzMusic]

Question of the day: Why do my speakers sound more dynamic than my headphones? I can get a mix right on my headphones but if I switch to my monitors, transients, percs etc are all poking out. Is it because my heaphones have a bad transient response?

[@realraven2000]

5:45 "make sure you're not limiting the low end"; if I wanna use something like L2, how do I avoid applying it to the low end? I am on Cubase, so the solution may be slighly different, but generally speaking I have started to look for FX plugins that work in multiband mode, but if there is an easy way to do it with a standard like L2 without introducing phase incoherence I would love to know.

[@n0g4rdd3r9]

For riding notes on an electric bass...what's your opinion on using Waves bass rider for this? Great vids as always!

[@dlapp14]

@@mixbustv Same here, i cant ever get it to sound natural, havent used it successfully.

[@DaveKill3R27]

Is that a JBL LSR8? 😍

[@stephenchesterjr1364]

i see you have a UVI cup... what software do you use ? , thinking about taking the plunge on Falcon 2.... seems like a very powerful tool

[@stephenchesterjr1364]

@@mixbustv awesome! will check those others out!

[@inversionofcontrol163]

If, because of some reason, your bass track is in stereo are you making sure that low end (below let's say 150Hz) is in mono?

[@obecas]

Hi, someone told me, that separate the low end to one track, and the other only for the mids, treat them differently, could help resolving the phase problem. Is that true? Also later you can double the track where all the mids are "living", and put there some distortion, also play with that, in verses, bridges, chorus. Anyway, excellent work, thank you very much for all the insights. Cheers from Portugal.

[@victormorley8341]

What is to « ride » a bass please???

[@kahyui2486]

what does 'ride the bass' mean? is it when u volume automate the notes so they are more balanced

[@zwsh89]

Question for the bull pen: I imagine this touches on the early point that some notes on a bass guitar will resonate differently. I have a few basses of midrange quality, and I often find that for all of them, at least one or two frets just don’t have any sub frequencies. I did an experiment where I set my subwoofer crossover at 120hz, and then walked up the fretboard. Sure enough, random notes would simply not move the sub at all. Even if they were relatively low notes, and notes even higher would trigger the sub. Any specific tips on how to deal with that? Obviously, compression, and eq won’t be suitable. One technique I’ve used is just cut all the lows out of my bass, and then add a sub synth under the bass. That’s helped me with consistency, but sacrifices tone and feel. Any other thoughts out there?

[@mixbustv]

Adding a sub bass is standard procedure (although cutting your low end is questionable). Modern music asks for a lot more and more extended low end than decades ago. The solution to that is to get a better bass and have it setup correctly. With that said, your experiment is somehow faulty for a couple of reasons, but basses will have wolf notes (actually many wll argue the more they have the better the quality, I'm not sure I agree with that but, anyway) all of them, it not normal for a bass not to "trigger" a sub set to 120hz, something is off with your bass or signal chain

[@matrixmodulator]

Question about drums: How do you think it affect the sound and is it important when all lugs are not exactly at the same tension but pitch is the same at each lug?

[@matrixmodulator]

@@mixbustv Well i was thinking if the tension are not the same at each lug, the drum head doesnt move at it's best and has some weak points. If all lugs have same tension, each point of contact make the corresponding area on the drum head vibrate the same way as the other ones. Like imagine a speaker that is not screwed properly into it's enclosure, i bet it would move not at it's best...

[@robloyst4514]

Ride notes. That mean just volumes?

[@AxelBezzi]

Hey David, what do you think about phase inversion due to high pass filter (both on single tracks and 2Buss)? Would you suggest a low shelf would be better? Nowdays it seems to become a new hot topic! Thank you in advance!

[@AxelBezzi]

@@mixbustv Missed that! Thanks!

[@seanrimada8571]

Remember 10:30 boys n girls

[@seanrimada8571]

Oh and in the studio at Mexico City we have one of those amazing Waves Limiters that algo has a MaxBass button :) really love to toggle with that baby but it’s a little pricey to recommend it

[@seanrimada8571]

Hardware :)

[@hotzemusic]

MixbusTV ooooooooi

[@Avatar7x7]

What's up wit the "T" Shirt ! Signaling who's side you're on - Huh man!

[@Avatar7x7]

@@mixbustv And you commented 36 minutes ago... Wow (3)6 - 666- I'm done I ain't mess'n wit you !

[@seanrimada8571]

You know, some people have great talent on their instrument playing skills, but the knowledge for mixing is very very scare... specially when you cut the sh*. Thanks man

[@professorgarison8492]

what exactly is meant by ride each note? I'm assuming it has to do with setting the levels but could someone explain this to me please?

[@stoneload9007]

Make sure they ( each note ) are all at the same volume..ensures any processing has less work to do and will sound even 😁

[@SydneyValette]

My question is: When do you figure out your 2bus settings at mixing stage? Bests

[@SydneyValette]

MixbusTV so setting 2bus before going into details on singular tracks?

[@SydneyValette]

MixbusTV cool! I was kinda unsure on the process thx!

[@Bring_MeSunshine]

Don't think me cheap, I have a lot going out monthly atm, however, I was considering a JOIN starting at the bottom level, because it's a small amount and I figure it's probably worth supporting the channel from which I've gained a lot of insight. But one question, how come US patrons pay $1.99 and UK patrons (that includes me) pay £1.99, which is more?

[@Bring_MeSunshine]

@@mixbustv The vid you made defining the levels, prices & perks, show US dollar prices 1.99, 4.99, 9.99 and 24.99, the UK sterling prices are 1.99, 4.99, 8.99 and 22.99, so as it goes up in levels it comes down a litlle, but the first 2 are the same, meaning more expensive in UK pounds. Hey look, in the new year, I'll probably just sign up to level 1 (for now) as £2/month is not a lot, I was just interested that the prices didn't match. Value is perceived, anyway, so if I honestly thought Level one was only worth £1.51, then I wouldn't pay £1.99, but I do think it's a small contribution to a channel that I like

[@ampecsu]

8:57 "...they will fart" is that what was said??

[@Mansardian]

Hilarious!🤣

[@Frankie_G_]

random question brotha, have you heard barefoot audio monitors? do you think they are worth the price? thanks

[@Frankie_G_]

@@mixbustv thank you! appreciate your wisdom.

[@marcinklimek8065]

Like for smart guy, what did you say? How are you named it? The"`Wolves" notes?

[@hybrydsanity5857]

What do you think of Bass rider by waves ? if you have used it that is. I did pickup a a plugin named Subloom by Mixland that could be good for your suggestion for the synth bass enhancement it kind of splits it for you in a way, I'm curious if you would like that plugin.

[@mixbustv]

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[@albertorolon137]

What do u mean for write each note? Automation?

[@SimonTebbenhamMusic]

'Ride'

[@albertorolon137]

MixbusTV k thanks!!!

[@christianduval8374]

Ok. Enough of the lo end. What about the hi end - 10khz to 22khz. Also will it be silly to lo pass filter f beyond 22khz?

[@seanemmettfullerton]

David! OMG, you are brilliant... yes yes yes! Get the bass right from the start! Listen to David and save yourself hours of pure torture in hell :)