Bass issues:

[stray411]

How do you guys/gals go about getting that "way too big" bass and kick combination? For kicks are you mainly using an 808 kick? How about bass, is it normally based off a Sine wave? Are you compressing the kick and/or bass before using and if so do you compress them together or separately? If not when compressing them afterward do you do them together or separately?

Sorry about all the questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm just getting started with Hip-Hop production (I've worked with other genres for years) and there are a few things I'm a little unclear on.

Stray

[pyssdogg]

-man, you jus have to experiment

[crosstudio]

compress them suckas individually.

then use a C4 multi-band compressor in the mastering process and compress the lows as a region.

scoop out the 250-500hz area so you can add (if necessary) some thump in the 80hz area.

[stray411]

Thanks Crossstudio, I figured it was probably common to compress first. I'll experiment with some different compressor settings. I have relatively good levels as we speak I'm really just nit picking and I just wanted to see if anyone here had some tips/tricks I could utilize. I talked to the mastering engineer the other day and he said I will notice a pretty big difference after the mastering process.

Thanks again

Stray