crankyelbow
New member
Growing my understanding of phase correlation has helped tremendously here... but I wonder what the folks here do?
My general method for cleaning up the low end
1: Check phase - out of phase = poor bass
2: High pass stuff that is likely only presenting undesirable stuff in the sub 150-200hz range (though I've found a slim line between "thin" and "de-muddifying" )
4: Side chain - anytime the kick/bass are in the same freq range I've found sending a sidechain from the kick to a compressor on the bass works wonders to clean up the low end. Having a 45-60hz tone come in to reinforce the kick can really help too... I've found the combination of kick tone reinforcement and kick/bass sidechaining to provide excellent results in sub-excellent recording situations.
My room/monitor setup isn't good enough to reliably mix the low end, so I typically have to guess... and here I've had no surefire method of success - perhaps someone here can offer some ideas on getting a good low end level mix with less than stellar monitoring equipment.
My general method for cleaning up the low end
1: Check phase - out of phase = poor bass
2: High pass stuff that is likely only presenting undesirable stuff in the sub 150-200hz range (though I've found a slim line between "thin" and "de-muddifying" )
4: Side chain - anytime the kick/bass are in the same freq range I've found sending a sidechain from the kick to a compressor on the bass works wonders to clean up the low end. Having a 45-60hz tone come in to reinforce the kick can really help too... I've found the combination of kick tone reinforcement and kick/bass sidechaining to provide excellent results in sub-excellent recording situations.
My room/monitor setup isn't good enough to reliably mix the low end, so I typically have to guess... and here I've had no surefire method of success - perhaps someone here can offer some ideas on getting a good low end level mix with less than stellar monitoring equipment.