I'm a bass player/vocalist when I'm playing live so my tendency is to want to hear the bass and kick as one solid unit, since tightness with the kick is what I usually try to achieve when I play.
I'm currently mixing a song I wrote that uses two mono loops for drums. I'm using a stereo spread plugin to enhance the sound of the more natural loop and I'm able to adjust the spread to separate the dominant frequencies for the kick and snare so that they voice on different sides.
My gut says I want to keep the kick drum and the bass guitar in the same space in the mix. Does this make sense? Is there a rule about this? What do you all do?
I'm currently mixing a song I wrote that uses two mono loops for drums. I'm using a stereo spread plugin to enhance the sound of the more natural loop and I'm able to adjust the spread to separate the dominant frequencies for the kick and snare so that they voice on different sides.
My gut says I want to keep the kick drum and the bass guitar in the same space in the mix. Does this make sense? Is there a rule about this? What do you all do?