Mixing 2 Bass players

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Halion said:
I second the cutting the bass on the distorted track. Make it sound more like a guitar. The clean one has lots of mids, that's too bad, cut some of that shit and give him some lows. Mids are cool for color, if you dig that soft of thing, but distortion + mids on bassguitar is just screaming trouble in my book.
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This is kind of what I'm talking about here.

Also if your getting a muddy mix, go back and find out if its muddy when you guys are just playing together. If its muddy there then don't start recording because your gonna have to unnaturally fix it and that will never sound as good as it just sounding good in the first place. And if its muddy cause you've got two guys playing the same thing down low at the same time, well maybe its time for some new song writing? I'm not trying to be a jerk about it, the idea of two bassists in a grind band is actually awsome probably one of the greatest things I've heard all day. But like every single other type of band, You gotta do it right. It has to sound good to be good.
 
I would make the distorted bass more midrangey. Treat it like a guitar, give it that sonic space. Make the clean bass more woof and clank.
 
emergencyexit said:
This is kind of what I'm talking about here.

Also if your getting a muddy mix, go back and find out if its muddy when you guys are just playing together. If its muddy there then don't start recording because your gonna have to unnaturally fix it and that will never sound as good as it just sounding good in the first place. And if its muddy cause you've got two guys playing the same thing down low at the same time, well maybe its time for some new song writing? I'm not trying to be a jerk about it, the idea of two bassists in a grind band is actually awsome probably one of the greatest things I've heard all day. But like every single other type of band, You gotta do it right. It has to sound good to be good.
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yeh thats one of the things were kinda working on now. our live, practicing sound. practice got cancelled today. i should post a live recording or something sometime


Farview said:
I would make the distorted bass more midrangey. Treat it like a guitar, give it that sonic space. Make the clean bass more woof and clank.
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its weird cuz the one bass player is really picky about his distortion sound. he's playing with an active yamaha bass into a zoom guitar distortion pedal then into a peavey mark 4 i think into a 2 15" cab. his sound is kinda mid rangy. i dunno i love the way his bass sounds.

the other one is playing a jay turser bass into a yorkville 400 watt amp into a 1 15" cab i think. we tryed to turn his gain up all the way to get the slightest amount of natural disortion and made the eq a lil more flattened out then before.
 
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