BillyBenson
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I've been searching all over the great lands of google, and have yet to find an answer for this question. I've been mixing a lot lately, and a lot of people say I shouldn't mix with my bass loud. This confuses me, because I listen to a lot of today's rap (for mixing purposes, I listen to the old stuff for the feel) and they seem to have their bass CRANKED.
At first I thought theyy're just pushing it into the mix and mastering handles the rest, but I've read that as mix engineers we should make our mixes sound just as good as our reference which are all masteredm, so I figure there's no problem with eqing and compressing a bassline and pushing it right on the ass of the main vocal, sometimes I'd even put it in front because it rarely ever seems to interfere with the clarity of my vocal.
I mix at a low volume. My kickdrums have never topped -10 dB, and they never will. My lowesst background instrument will probably be around -30 through -40, so tell me is it so wrong to have the bass sitting at -25 though -22 with the vocal at -20 through -17? My background instruments tend to be clear and right where I want them, but I can't ever shake the feeling that I'm just doing it wrong.
At first I thought theyy're just pushing it into the mix and mastering handles the rest, but I've read that as mix engineers we should make our mixes sound just as good as our reference which are all masteredm, so I figure there's no problem with eqing and compressing a bassline and pushing it right on the ass of the main vocal, sometimes I'd even put it in front because it rarely ever seems to interfere with the clarity of my vocal.
I mix at a low volume. My kickdrums have never topped -10 dB, and they never will. My lowesst background instrument will probably be around -30 through -40, so tell me is it so wrong to have the bass sitting at -25 though -22 with the vocal at -20 through -17? My background instruments tend to be clear and right where I want them, but I can't ever shake the feeling that I'm just doing it wrong.