BeatsByD
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I was searching through some Reddit posts and i found this one interesting:
here are my opinions on my current eq'ing procedure in my own bass heavy music:
cut your kick at 40hz high pass. you don't want anything lower than that, most speakers won't even pick it up unless it's like a club. then open up a live eq that shows where your sound is looking like in the spectrum, in a visual fashion. take note of the low end, your earlier highpass should have been a hard cut, boost the Q so you boost all the freqs around but not below where you cut. cut out some at around 200-250 to get rid of muddiness that might accrue, and boost the highs some -- for your click to be more present, or transients, w/e.
go to your bass, highpass it around 100-150hz, another hard cut. you can go softer if you want. Boost that region by increasing the Q. Nice low freq's , yumm.
also , from now on, start getting into the habit of highpassing EVERY single element in your tracks, (seriously, every single drum sample, audio sample, synth, pad, etc...) at around 100-250hz depending on where your bass/kick sit. You need to do this because otherwise each one of those elements will bleed just a little bit of low end into your mix where you don't want it. individually not that impressive, but collectively it can begin to manifest tangibly. best nip it in the bud.
essentially, you need to start staying conscious of your elements and where they're intended to sit in the mix. You gotta kind of think of it as tetris. in this fashion, your kick would sit real low, like 40-90, your bass will sit on top of that at like 100/150+ . The two will accentuate eachother, and everytime the kick hits you'll really feel the thump. the hard part is the middle regions, because the character of each element is really there, and you can't overlap too much in any region.
you just gotta keep trying and gain experience
I just feel like HP the bass around 100/150 is way too much.
Is anybody else doing this? I tried it on a sub bass i have and it kinda killed the character of the bass.
here are my opinions on my current eq'ing procedure in my own bass heavy music:
cut your kick at 40hz high pass. you don't want anything lower than that, most speakers won't even pick it up unless it's like a club. then open up a live eq that shows where your sound is looking like in the spectrum, in a visual fashion. take note of the low end, your earlier highpass should have been a hard cut, boost the Q so you boost all the freqs around but not below where you cut. cut out some at around 200-250 to get rid of muddiness that might accrue, and boost the highs some -- for your click to be more present, or transients, w/e.
go to your bass, highpass it around 100-150hz, another hard cut. you can go softer if you want. Boost that region by increasing the Q. Nice low freq's , yumm.
also , from now on, start getting into the habit of highpassing EVERY single element in your tracks, (seriously, every single drum sample, audio sample, synth, pad, etc...) at around 100-250hz depending on where your bass/kick sit. You need to do this because otherwise each one of those elements will bleed just a little bit of low end into your mix where you don't want it. individually not that impressive, but collectively it can begin to manifest tangibly. best nip it in the bud.
essentially, you need to start staying conscious of your elements and where they're intended to sit in the mix. You gotta kind of think of it as tetris. in this fashion, your kick would sit real low, like 40-90, your bass will sit on top of that at like 100/150+ . The two will accentuate eachother, and everytime the kick hits you'll really feel the thump. the hard part is the middle regions, because the character of each element is really there, and you can't overlap too much in any region.
you just gotta keep trying and gain experience
I just feel like HP the bass around 100/150 is way too much.
Is anybody else doing this? I tried it on a sub bass i have and it kinda killed the character of the bass.