Mix Bass In 10 Minutes - RecordingRevolution.com
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2020
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A lot of bass tracks sound bad. I don't know why, but today I'm gonna help you get a better bass sound fast.
Whether you are mixing bass guitar or bass synth these mix moves will help you get a cleaner, fatter, and thicker sounding bass in just 10 minutes.
Specifically, I'm going to show you my 4 favorite bass mix moves that you can copy in your DAW with your own stock plugins! 
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There are no better recording channels on RUclips... By all means there are MANY great channels, but you make the information SO available, short and to the point, cover so many subjects, and communicate in a very very good way. What a man you are :D
yo! i can't tell u how helpful these have been for me. i've watched and re-watched each one of your mixing videos, coming back to them each time it's time to mix a song to refresh and reinspire my work flow. THANK YOU for being such a clear explainer with great examples. I also love how much time you allow for your on/off comparisons, that's the most satisfying part! Cheers.
So glad to see your videos again Graham!!
Me too! Feels like I've seen this before though
That was very useful. I’d heard about distortion on bass being a good thing but it had never been explained to me previously that’s its vital to allow bass notes to sound out of poor quality speakers. I just changed one of my mixes and it’s made a massive difference immediately.
Thanks Graham, I learned a lot from your videos and this one shows me I´m on the right way. For a constant lowend I love to mix in a duplicated track with a highcut around 250-300 hz and hard compressed (ratio 10/1, fast attack, medium to long release). To the distorted channel I often blend in an octave up, depending to the bassline and the song also 7 semitones up +/- some cents panned hard left and right. Adds something hard to disccribe and glues to the guitars. Best wishes from Germany and keep on your great work.
The most practical and useful explanation of compression I've seen. Thank you!
Some really good, helpful tips. Learned some stuff I didn't know. Good vid man.
Great tips as always! The reverb one is super cool 💪🏻
I just found your channel jumping over from another of your videos; this is great, thanks! I just recently got the Waves CLA Bass plug-in and I'm really enjoying it - still just experimenting with the buttons and faders but it seems to have a lot of versatility and got me a great sound.
Great tip on rolling off those really low frequencies. Something I learned to reduce the "rumble".
Fantastic Graham, just what I needed!, your timing is supernatural!
one of my fave things to do with bass is double tracking and panning just slightly to either side. I tried reverb once and it was just to washy for my ideal bass sound. Also, if i want a grittier bass sound all the way through a song, keep the bass guitar pretty gritty and bright, but use a sub synth to give it the lower harmonic presence. It's hard or original, but i really enjoy using those techniques.
Thanks. Your insights make things much easier to grasp. I’m a newbie to mixing.
You're amazing brother.
I am singing and making musics on my own and your videos are really helpful 😊❤
that harmonics boost due to crappy speakers was super helpful, thanks!
Thanks for another great lesson. Glad I'm a member.
Awesome, thank you so much Graham.
I like to think Paul Rudd is teaching me how to mix. Love this channel, thank you very much.
slappin da bass :D
Love these 10 minute Mix videos.
Great video as usual! Graham!!🙏🏾
Thanks for info and enthusiasm 🙂
Sounds great, and I'm sure we're all learning !
I know I am...
Always top class Graham, thank you.
Fantastic, Graham, thanks!
Very useful indeed. Thanks mate!
That's interesting, especially the part on the trail,.or tail end / sustain with compressor and EQ
Good stuff. Very Useful!
parallel send to the waves aphex vintage aural exciter! found that little tip a couple of years ago and its my favorite, got it from dave pensado. he does way more processing on it but i've found that just the aphex is already good enough to get some extra bite on it and as a bass player myself i wish there's was a pedal version :P also if it needs a lot of help, parallel track with a bluey 76 completely destroying the signal to bring up a lot of low end (learned from CLA) and mix it in very low so you dont mess up your mix
Good tips! Tks
The reverb trick is key 👏
thx graham you are great
Greatest RUclips channel
Thanks a lot mister G
Thanks Graham
Lyrics awesome and teaching is fantastic
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Good teaching! I am new to Pro Tools, I am really enjoying it. I am a bass player, people naturally assume that it's a bass lets just heap loads of bottom end on it, not necessarily. I play fretless bass and I love those high notes to really sing out. 1K will surely do that! But I love experimenting, Pro Tools offers such an awesome range of tweeking for the tweeking geek like myself. I am really a singer/songwriter I play mostly acousic guitar and I am learning to play keys by ear. So I am loving experimenting using my Novation 61 midi keyboard. I am new to midi. But I am loving the endless sounds, and beats, it's just amazing! I am not frightened to try things. But this is great teaching. What I want to know is why my Waveform window looks so different to what I am seeing on my screen? Sure I can see my channels, but I can't see my plugins except on the mix window. I am not sure how to use a compresser yet so this is good for me.
Hey Tracy, what do you mean you can't see your plugins? Like you can't see the individual plugins' interface itself, or you can't see the list of which plugins you have on individual tracks, or what? And if you are just starting out, don't overwhelm yourself with information overload. Learn everything deliberately, and learn it at a pace in which you can actually comprehend it. My guess is you probably don't NEED to know the full ins-and-outs of compression just yet, even if you want to have a career in production/engineering. The super basic principal is, you're evening out your sound. Quieter sounds get a little louder, louder sounds get a little quieter. A faster attack time will generally add excitement and tighten the sound, while a slower attack will kind of give a more drawn out, punchier sound. Release times work pretty similar where a fast release gives you more aggression and grit, while slower releases really smooth out the sound. Those phrases in and of themselves can kind of be dissected as well, but that's a general guideline for you :-)
thank u so much 🙏
fantastic.
Nice!
Saturation is huge, softube's BIG Knob saturation is cool and free.
Aloha, Graham. I start with a fantastic solid rosewood, ebony fingerboard 6 string fretless bass with custom wound Bartolini passive pickups - played through a Genz-Benz amp/SWR 15" speaker/horn picked up by a Townsend Sphere microphone (usually the fat U47 setting - depends on the rest of the track). Then I usually use a Parallel Bass Izotope Neutron compressor plug-in sometimes followed by Neutron EQ or Sculptor. But your video has given me some food for thought so I'm going to experiment with some of the techniques you've suggested. Thanks again.
The bass was custom built by John Jordan in California.
Hey thanks Graham! Quick question, would you treat an 808 the same way, or would you mix the 808 with your drums?
I make the distorted double super compressed, so it's very flat. To give stability
So I have been using IK Multi amp modeler Amplitube4. Where in my chain should I be applying compression and eq.? The modeler seems to do a lot of that already. Much different than working with a simple direct line in. I have been playing for about 35 years and still do not understand the nuances of compression and eq, so rarely use. Now I am recording and interested in learning more. Thanks for the video.
God bless.
Amen God bless him
👍for this video ! Sir, I want to upgrade my Audio interface (focusrite 2i2 2nd gen ). Which one is better audient ID14 or focusrite clarett 2pre ? Pls suggest me.
if your bass is getting swallowed your guitars are too loud mixes today have too many mid tracks ever hear a great hit record, theres very little in the mix but all elements that are - are essential
Hey bro great job you doing.................can you help me with FL studio that is not trial or demo version?
Cool.
Love any bottom end tutorial
I use waves rbass to add harmonics to my bass and kicks
great video again Graham, would be good if you could cover reggae bass in a future lesson
particularly reggae bass for a 110 bpm song, played with the left hand. i'd also like a specific tutorial for bass mixing with female vocals vs. male vocals.
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Can someone help me.. I updated to Catalina a few months back.. Trying to install protools first and it doesn't work.. Can anyone please shine some light on this
I'm using track 9 how can my vocals and my Harmony done right what's this software
Distortion on bass, yep,: that's what we were taught to do too, and they claimed it's better with slightly higher mid lvls, too , for certain applications
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I like how you're warming up to reverb on instruments. I use a "studio" room on every single track, and it goes a huge way into creating three-dimensionality, roundness and depth, and smoothening the transients. Additionally, the variable predelay play is a great tool for layering instruments from front to back.
I like the song, by the way. What's it called?
It's also a good way to preserve clarity. IMHO, if you are using dry samples, a room reverb is almost essential, since no sound in nature is dry. But I think if smoothing transients is the goal, there are better ways to do that. I also think it makes sense to time the pre-delay to an exact 1/128th note, so it is in sync rhythmically and not fighting the rhythm.
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@@ThomasJ112 thank you.
@@thomaslewis8438 absolutely, you need to "detach them from the wall" which is how I hear it when they are no longer flat, like stuck to a wall, and you can actually hear that slight reverberation behind them that tells how much inside of a space they are, and how much depth there is behind them. that's what i i call "detach from the wall".
there are several things you can do to smoothen transients, no doubt, and this, too, I find is one of them, it happens naturally. i think reverb acts kind of in the same way analog noise acts in hardware, in this regard, with some top end micro phase cancellation, but i don't know for sure.
never thought of predelay rhythmically, like that, i don't know if you can feel that lag enough to perceive it rhythmically, but you can bring instruments closer or further. i'll keep that idea in mind, though, to try it once.
@@ThomasJ112 That's good advice for you
How to mix bass? Mix in mono through one speaker.
Hi Graham,.. my question is,.. “If I have multiple copies of the same track,.. like in this video,..will it cause phasing issues? 🤔
Yes. I've just learnt that. The best thing to do if you're doing multitracking is having different things. So having different tones helps, but the best thing is having different takes.
and the 1st one to like
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3rd one to watch
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Great channel, but I think 1 Khz makes every bass sound real harsh and enhances the already clanky sounding even more. Add compression and it gets worse. The area around 1 Khz is generally not a very good idea on bass, neither is reverb. Imho. I am a pro studio bassist, by the way. Nobody I know in the biz would boost 1 K on bass.
in electronic music there is so much (sub)bass that sometimes You need to do sidechain compression with the kick 💁♂️
...also for sculpting bass frequency I rather use some tasty filters with some drive - rather than EQ's... but that's my taste ^^
Sorry Grahan you went in crap, with all the nastyness,why didnt you spend more time shaping the tone,before hitting the record button ? Surley you should aim to record what you want to hear in the recirding..
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there's a difference between getting a great tone on an amp and having a track be heard in a mix. He's not showing you how to tone your bass, he's showing you how to tweak the already shaped tone in a mix setting so it can still be heard between all the other tracks. Guitars, vocals, keyboards, drums, etc. all add volume to each range of EQ, so if you had a ton of tracks with a fair amount of mids, you are going to want to turn down the mids on certain tracks for them to pop. Just an example of a near infinite amount of variables. And each mix for different songs is going to be different. You can try to get your amp right all you want, but while it might be perfect for one recording it will be off on another, it's just more logical to tackle to small tweaks in production than before.
@@Blackenedwhiplash my point was the bass tone wasn't shaped, or equed,prior to recording, concideration at this point is the one song in question,not what it might sound like in other songs. Unless you are an artist who is known for a signiture bass sound. I am a respectful fan of Graham generally, (who should be responding to these points but very rarely does) but you can polish a bar of gold, but you can't polish a Turd, (as quoted by CLA) but even after "tweaking" it didnt sound well in the mix, (in my opinion) but i suppose thats what you get if you only allow 10 minutes,to mix your bass.
@@rockwriter9054 he did have it EQed before, he just slightly tweaked a sweet spot that allowed it to shine in the mix and lowered the frequency that slightly clashed in the mix. Even with all of his editing, the changes from the original recording are subtle. I'm guessing you have never played a bass or recorded a song, because you seem very ignorant to what you are saying. Honestly this video speaks for itself when showing the comparisons and what it does for the whole song
First, not titling the vid correctly is a grave mistake. Do you even know what mixing is? You did not instruct us on mixing, You instructed us on eq, reverb, and layering distortion. Those happen well before mixing. The word 'mix' implies more than one instrument.
Second, that bass player is terrible. Maybe they should take up the trombone instead. The irony is that you concentrated on very subtle changes to the track, yet ignored the fact that half the notes rattle. The rattles are the loudest sounds in the track. Not good. A good bass player never lets notes rattle like that. Makes my skin crawl, and would ruin a mix.
"a grave mistake" lmao bro chill out
You need to show your well agreed comments to Devin H he is the Authority on bass playing & recording, or at least he thinks he his, he guesses , and presumes i am ignorant ,after being on 15 Albums and working in Rockfield Studios for 4 1/2 years the sound was not inspiring going in ,so no matter what you did would not sound good, going out! especially in that mix.
we all understand his subtle tweeks, he did, but it sounded poor going in and wasted sat in the mix, come on Devin ive had 6 PMS from people who know me who all agree you shouldnt guess or presume , Thomas lewis comments are just spot on correct , so let it go ! but to be fare to Graham, (who should have spent longer than 10 minutes) he is not a bass player, but generally a very good teacher, presenter and sound production engineer.
(Michael) Thinking you have license to instruct people on how they should reply is an even graver mistake. You don't. I didn't either, until you opened the door.
(Rock) I thought so, but this vid throws all of that into question. A 'good' sound engineer is aware. This bass track clanks horribly and should be rerecorded, at a minimum. Anyone can make a mistake, including a great bass player and a sound engineer. Miles Davis says 'whether a note is good or bad depends upon what happens next'. In this case, realizing the issue and rerecording is what should happen next. What makes a good teacher, presenter, and sound engineer also includes due diligence.