Mixing Bass Guitar | Fat Bottomed Tips by Joe Barresi

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  • Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
  • Mixing bass guitar tracks (DI and amps) to one fat bottomed sound. Hard rock producer and mixing engineer Joe Barresi shares his means to that (low) end. Learn more from Joe: www.waves.com/Barresi
    Waves plugins used in this video:
    Renaissance Bass
    www.waves.com/renbass
    CLA-76
    www.waves.com/cla76
    LoAir
    www.waves.com/loair
    Music: “Mercury Gift” by Zico Chain
    Check out Joe's ProSound Workshop:
    www.prosoundworkshop.com
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  • @DropdeadGamingLive
    @DropdeadGamingLive 4 года назад +83

    Wish I had access to a guy like him to help me out... having to do everything by myself is really hard. Writing music is one thing but mixing and turning it into something coherent is a totally different ball game.

    • @NastyCockRoach
      @NastyCockRoach 4 года назад +4

      Dropdead Gaming ...May I help you? Doing recordings by my own since 10 years. Maybe we can connect ourselves together ? Let me know

    • @DropdeadGamingLive
      @DropdeadGamingLive 4 года назад

      @@NastyCockRoach sure, why not. I'll take whatever help I can get. facebook.com/electronichaos ... you can reach me there.

    • @zyslug7503
      @zyslug7503 4 года назад +3

      How is the team up going

    • @DropdeadGamingLive
      @DropdeadGamingLive 4 года назад

      @@zyslug7503 what team up ? does that answer your question ?

    • @zyslug7503
      @zyslug7503 4 года назад +2

      @@DropdeadGamingLive the other guy offered help so I was wondering how things went in the couple months am always trying to hear new music

  • @beggbasso287
    @beggbasso287 5 лет назад +147

    It got some (h)air on it... unlike me. GENIUS!

    • @GeoffBosco
      @GeoffBosco 3 года назад +2

      I knew this would be the top comment as soon as I heard him say it! lol

    • @artemyeden
      @artemyeden 3 месяца назад

      😄

  • @Opeckie
    @Opeckie 5 лет назад +13

    I snagged this album because of these tutorials... this band was SO FAR ahead of their time! Killer album, and great advice from Joe! Thanks Waves!

  • @BlackenedNL
    @BlackenedNL 5 лет назад +25

    I love these video's, Joe is such a cool guy

  • @SteveStockmalMusic
    @SteveStockmalMusic 3 года назад +10

    5:47
    Lo Air is one of my new discoveries “...
    That’s what I love about music and sound engineerings.... it’s an endless learning and experimenting game !!!

  • @yrebrac
    @yrebrac 4 года назад +19

    This guy is not only amazing at what he does he is AWESOME at explaining it

    • @ajfedz
      @ajfedz 4 года назад

      It's called being a good teacher.

  • @CheeroDee
    @CheeroDee 5 лет назад +5

    Love those psycho acoustic effects. Thanks for the great tips Joe.

  • @trevord4243
    @trevord4243 5 лет назад +4

    Love your vids Joe. Awesome tips and really is the backbone of my recent leaps forward in getting my guitar/bass sitting in a mix where they should. Thanks for the shares.

  • @ryanrobinson4072
    @ryanrobinson4072 2 года назад +1

    Love this video. I just finished a song and needed to pull the bass out a little bit to make more clear and adding a distorted track on it really brought out the picking with the original track still making me able to feel it. Great idea and an easy fix

  • @TravisHY
    @TravisHY 4 года назад +2

    Thanks for this, Joe. Really great stuff.

  • @barrymagner713
    @barrymagner713 5 лет назад +4

    Joe is the man. I could listen to this guy talk all day.

  • @swettyspaghtti
    @swettyspaghtti 5 лет назад +7

    He is the MAN.

  • @tonyadams6985
    @tonyadams6985 3 года назад +1

    Great demo! Very informative and concise! Thanks.

  • @jackcarolina856
    @jackcarolina856 4 года назад +2

    really well explained Thanks so much Joe !

  • @siddhantpetkar9728
    @siddhantpetkar9728 5 лет назад +3

    coolest wave guy! more vids!

  • @edwardlee6516
    @edwardlee6516 Год назад

    thank you Joe great examples great sound that low air

  • @assegedstudio1862
    @assegedstudio1862 2 года назад

    Thanks for the great tips

  • @DoktorDamage
    @DoktorDamage Год назад

    Excellent explanation and really good advice coming from a pro.
    Cheers!

  • @heathsledger
    @heathsledger Год назад

    this is amazing and exzachary what i needed

  • @mastod0n1
    @mastod0n1 Год назад +2

    Some slight dirt on the bass is almost always great sounding in my experience. With my one band that tried recording a demo in our drummer's basement I would split my signal to a DI and a Big Muff and run the thru output on the DI box to my amp. I'd use the Big Muff pretty heavily in choruses, which fit our style, and in quieter sections I'd only use the fuzz as a very very subtle color with my DI and amp sound.

  • @andyisacsson7503
    @andyisacsson7503 5 лет назад +5

    Good video

  • @forgettable8365
    @forgettable8365 5 лет назад +59

    I wish he used one of Tool's on progres album tunes for the demostration...

  • @mikeloosen53
    @mikeloosen53 3 года назад

    Awsome info!!!!

  • @click_connect
    @click_connect 7 месяцев назад

    Very Nice!

  • @nj1255
    @nj1255 3 месяца назад

    I remember that I used to use the Barresi Evil Drums expansion for Superior Drummer 2 years ago when I first started out. That library sounded excellent! I stopped using it when they updated to Superior Drummer 3 and it didn't work longer. I don't even know if I still have the license somewhere or not, but I'd love to give it a spin again.

  • @NextSession
    @NextSession 5 лет назад +3

    🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @cesgram
    @cesgram 2 года назад

    awesome

  •  3 года назад

    Cool!!

  • @gregaroller
    @gregaroller 5 лет назад +2

    Awesome! thanks man. think I have been in a rut just using my tube pre then post side into a multi band then into a comp. oddly almost always find myslelf reducing low end? maybe its the old sylvania tube doing its job. cant wait to try some reamping! thanks for vid

  • @edwinrivera3794
    @edwinrivera3794 5 лет назад +2

    Hi Joe , i want to practice some itunes songs imported to pro tools , how i eliminate the bass to practice the song ? thanks

  • @dannyho6786
    @dannyho6786 Год назад

    J Breezy, thanx man !

  • @jubez1875
    @jubez1875 3 года назад +1

    Great video man. I play in local bands and have recorded with a bunch of different producers that are pretty much guitarists moonlighting as engineers. They throw me on 1 DI track with a god awful EQ and too much distortion. I'll sound fine when I'm playing along with the guitars on the E string, but the moment I move out of that range, everything goes completely south. It completely discourages me from writing any fills or intricate basslines. Good to see this video though from a person who very much knows what they're doing. At least 2 tracks will definitely be my standard going forward or nobody's getting paid :)

  • @DHOTS2007
    @DHOTS2007 5 лет назад +1

    da MAN !!

  • @therichieconway
    @therichieconway 5 лет назад +9

    what DI is being used?!

  • @L.A.W.Studios
    @L.A.W.Studios 5 лет назад +13

    Dammit, just bought LoAir because of this, which of course was their intention.. I've no-one to blame but myself..haha.. Great tut/video BTW..

    • @TheLeon1032
      @TheLeon1032 4 года назад +2

      yo steve, have you used loair much since you bought it??

    • @JJofCascadia
      @JJofCascadia 4 года назад

      ​@@TheLeon1032 Ive had it for a couple years dude and I love using it when I feel the situation calls for it. id say about 70 percent of the time it winds up on a bass gtr layer/kick drum-808- layer/or even my mix buss and its great man! get it if you're thinking you'd put it to good use you will not regret it! its shockingly good on the mixbuss I had no idea that it cou;ld be a thing. also not a very costly plugin so less chance of buyers remorse. cheers dude.

    • @TheLeon1032
      @TheLeon1032 4 года назад +1

      @@JJofCascadia huge thanks for the reply man, really interesting to hear it works on a mixbus, I'm gonna get it as a 40th bday present to myself next month, thanks again for the answer))

    • @user-ux1vj9vx7s
      @user-ux1vj9vx7s 2 года назад +1

      I prefer the brainworx_subsynth. They’re both pretty good subharmonic synths, but you can do a little more with the BX

  • @Mixingmachine774
    @Mixingmachine774 3 года назад

    ıt has a corelation between di and bass amp .di interferes the bass amp .(phase cancellation )If you change the phase of di you can achieve fat and clear bass guitar sound.

  • @dizleran9276
    @dizleran9276 Год назад

    hey, I have no idea what youre saying im new to recording but im sure if I hear these words and continue to do some research on how to record my bass im sure ill eventually figure it out lol thanks for the info.

  • @NihilQuest
    @NihilQuest 5 лет назад +8

    I've watched guitar examples and this, and what I noticed is he never takes volume increase into account once he starts changing something. I don't know, maybe it's only for video but it's hard to judge the real result without matching volume.

  • @keytarmusic1951
    @keytarmusic1951 5 лет назад +3

    thank you Dad

  • @agesonjohanesburg2915
    @agesonjohanesburg2915 2 года назад

    Can you dup 3 di tracks with 3 different amp sims and blend? Do you eq and compress after the amp sim? Thx!

  • @folee6785
    @folee6785 5 лет назад

    так можно blood overdrive во фруктах за 5 сек сделать..и продублировать партию сабом с помощью trilian к примеру.

  • @MeatyController
    @MeatyController 5 лет назад +1

    I love his voice, so ASMR lol

  • @TakeFlight
    @TakeFlight 5 лет назад +1

    Wow yeahhhaaaaaahhaaa!!

  • @Tonetwisters
    @Tonetwisters Месяц назад

    Wow! Makes me very glad I am not engineering and producing anymore!

  • @godzilla964
    @godzilla964 2 года назад

    What if you double tracked the bass guitar, have one track clean, the other distorted and blend them together?

    • @Suped_BIGRIG_350mph
      @Suped_BIGRIG_350mph 2 года назад +2

      No rules, do what you want. Double-tracking bass guitar has a lot of problems in the mixing stage for a standard rock/metal mix.

  • @TheAmazingReene
    @TheAmazingReene 3 года назад

    ZICO CHAIN.

  • @Matthew-ez4ze
    @Matthew-ez4ze 5 лет назад +8

    If you got the space, lay three tracks of bass.

    • @caixiuying8901
      @caixiuying8901 5 лет назад +5

      low, mids, and high?
      I've seen Buster split it low, clean, and grit

    • @savanaviolenta
      @savanaviolenta 4 года назад +1

      I use two, one DI and one from the amp.

  • @markbortnovsky9134
    @markbortnovsky9134 5 лет назад

    is the di---> amp---> output applicable in a live situation. Will it work?

    • @gabejohnston1556
      @gabejohnston1556 5 лет назад

      Of course. If you have the channels available, and the extra time to blend them, you can use this concept for live sound.

    • @markbortnovsky9134
      @markbortnovsky9134 5 лет назад

      @@gabejohnston1556 ok thanks

  • @cruisewithspirit6021
    @cruisewithspirit6021 3 года назад

    In a normal time world One could have one microphone and a screen to record live to have all the possibilities of sound available. Technology would know how you want it to sound and mix perfectly.

    • @patkelly8309
      @patkelly8309 2 года назад +1

      That would be pretty boring I think. Not to mention putting a lot of people out of work. Personally I don't want to live in a completely AI'd world.

    • @tobiasjone
      @tobiasjone Год назад +1

      @@patkelly8309 you will own nothing and be happy

    • @patkelly8309
      @patkelly8309 Год назад

      ​@@tobiasjone I already own nothing and I'm happy

    • @johnbowman3630
      @johnbowman3630 Год назад

      This mindset is called "valuing nothing".

  • @AdamLindgrenComposer
    @AdamLindgrenComposer 5 лет назад

    What fader board is he using?

  • @furlag2
    @furlag2 5 лет назад +6

    He reminds me Hank from Breaking Bad

  • @steven_porter
    @steven_porter 5 лет назад +2

    For years I wondered why Pro Tools sessions in tutorials have so many tracks. Different takes? No, that's what Playlists are for. Layering multiple performances? Not usually. Apparently they're just running the exact same track through 4 different effects chains! Not my preference, but whatever floats your boat.

    • @AlvinWar
      @AlvinWar 5 лет назад +1

      A lot of times it is separate tracks. The problem with copy and paste is that there is no deviation and even after 4 tracks it still sounds thin. So separate tracks really thicken the sound because of the little deviations

    • @Melvin7727
      @Melvin7727 4 года назад +3

      You specifically split track bass in order to process it in different ways. It's more common with that instrument. The idea of separate bass performances is unorthodox by comparison, because you'd have to sync it perfectly and the different textures would over complicate it. Doubling is good for melodic instruments; guitar, vocals, orchestral sections. But for your rhythm section, when you want density, split processing is king. Saturate your bass, crush your drums.

    • @olegmcrussian245
      @olegmcrussian245 3 года назад +1

      So... I always record ov/dist guitar in that 4 track way.
      L/r, 70/70.
      1ov , 2 dist -cut 80hz, - over16k to 0
      3ov, 4 dist - some magic with +/- 850/2k/4k.
      And some reverb, hall and delay.
      And.... Almost every guitar sounds like phat and solid mix sound.
      I think the same to bass guit.
      1 - cut Everything over 80hz
      2 - only mid 800
      3 - only 2. 5khz / 4k
      4 - cut over 16k
      🤔

  • @kayvtv
    @kayvtv 5 лет назад +4

    1:29 what got some hair on it means? can somebody explain?

    • @davidroys
      @davidroys 5 лет назад +4

      He means a little grit, a small amount of distortion when you play hard, but not super distorted

    • @kayvtv
      @kayvtv 5 лет назад +2

      thanks david, really appreciated! :)

  • @luxxinterior5200
    @luxxinterior5200 2 года назад

    Are 4 bass tracks really necessary? Seems like total overkill.

  • @janelincoln7635
    @janelincoln7635 5 лет назад +2

    And the final result? He will use only one take with the saturation 😂

  • @csdarlington86
    @csdarlington86 5 лет назад +1

    Phase switch? He must mean polarity switch to find out if its out of phase.

  • @JacobJoyce1
    @JacobJoyce1 3 года назад

    What is a DI

    • @patkelly8309
      @patkelly8309 2 года назад

      @Jacob Joyce DI stands for Direct In. Its a box that you plug your instrument into and it goes directly to your recording set-up as opposed to when you mic an amp and record the output of the amplifier.

  • @buddyxxx2951
    @buddyxxx2951 3 года назад +3

    Mixing bass with what? I only heard a bass line and processing on the track...

  • @KleeMusicAZ
    @KleeMusicAZ 4 года назад

    It's just a phase...

  • @nikumeru
    @nikumeru 5 лет назад +21

    unlike me ... trolololol

  • @damiandembek9545
    @damiandembek9545 3 года назад

    This Lexicon 480 on Joe’s console looks like calculator on accountant’s desk! ;)

  • @user-kx6om4xm5v
    @user-kx6om4xm5v 5 лет назад +1

    what is DI?

    • @RiffMagnum
      @RiffMagnum 5 лет назад +9

      Direct input. For basses it's usually a DI box in the form of a pedal, like a tech 21 sans amp or Radial, but some amps also have DI outputs that allow you to plug directly into the board instead of relying only on a mic'd up bass sound. Bass amps aren't the easiest things to mic up and get a good sound, but going DI is a quick and easy way to get a really solid sound very quickly.

    • @dalizoom
      @dalizoom 5 лет назад +3

      Direct Injection*

    • @markbortnovsky9134
      @markbortnovsky9134 5 лет назад

      direct imput

  • @Project_2501
    @Project_2501 4 года назад

    Well, he talks about a "super fat mix" but I found the mix to be pretty weak and absolutely not "fat" - and I listen with studio head phones! Listen to John Mayer records and you know what a real fat bass mix is.

    • @sweetsoul3145
      @sweetsoul3145 4 года назад +1

      well, dont be too harsh, he's an old school dude, mixing has advanced a lot since the nineties

    • @nicoguarini28
      @nicoguarini28 Год назад +1

      Shit! You wanna hear an example of Joe creating one of the fattest bass tones ever put down on tape? Just listen to the monster bass grooves on Melvin's "Stoner witch" or Kyuss "Blues for the red sun" + "And the circus leaves town" with your fancy headphones. Then recognize .......

    • @tobiasjone
      @tobiasjone Год назад

      @@nicoguarini28 some of my favourite albums for sure… some people have a hard time grasping the notion of subjectivity and context.

  • @greghillmusic
    @greghillmusic 3 месяца назад

    Phase issues? Dude just use amp sims. Absolutely no reason for the process mentioned here.

  • @JohnnyPbitch
    @JohnnyPbitch 7 месяцев назад

    Is this the dude from Even Stevens? Beans?