MIX FAT BASS Guitar that CUTS Through the MIX
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- MIX FAT BASS Guitar that CUTS Through the MIX
We all love a good bass track, right? But it’s easy for that low-end to get lost in the mix on modern speaker systems.
You need to mix your bass so that the fat sound cuts through and sits perfectly in your mix.
Today, I’m going to take you step-by step through one of my favorite process for getting a bass sound that blows listeners away!
What are your favorite tips for a great bass sound?
Let me know in the comments!
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:40 Track preview
1:40 Step 1: duplicating the performance
1:55 Step 2: add a virtual bass amp to doubled track
2:10 Step 3: add high pass filter
2:45 Step 4: add a sansamp (plugin)
3:20 Step 5: add some 1176 compression
4:05 Step 6: add a low pass filter to DI track
5:00 Step 7: add 1176 to DI track
5:10 Step 8: add Rbass
5:40 Step 9: add a small high pass filter
6:20 Checking the phase relationship between the channels
6:58 Listening in the full mix
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Great Chris. Awesome!
Thanks for this clear and effective tutorial!
Superb. Cheers for all the vids 👍🏽💥
Epic sound Chris :) thank you.
Awesome Chris, appreciate these tips.
Thanks for a simple easy to understand tutorial.
Thanks for sharing your approach on this. I've read a lot, I've heard a lot...but to see a great engineer walk through the setup is reassuring.
Another great video man - thanks! I use this technique too but in a digital modeller for my live sound, ppl love my bass tones, they’re never lost in a mix & easy to control in a mix if separated like (& this makes for happy live-sound-engineers!)
Very usefull tutorials, I might say, Chrissie. Using them a lot! ;)
Awesome. About to lay down some bass right now. I'll try this out. Thanks!
Hands down the best mixing/production channel on youtube! Been following Chris for 2 years now! Never disappoints and such a likeable dude! As I call him, the Peter Mckinon of music production haha! Keep it up mate!
Am loving it.
Thanks Chris, excellent video. Cheers Dave
Love this!
Many thanks !
Thank you Chris! It was very helpful!
Great sound, great bass player, and killer riff.
Excellent video as always Chris. Quick, to the point and very educational. I love the schooling, keep it coming.
Much appreciated!
Fantastic video, Chris - thanks :-)
Great tutorial, Chris! Thanks so much for this.
My pleasure!
Great timing Chris! I was just sent a recording from overseas with no chance of re-recording. The bass was hard to work with. This will sort me out!
Fantastic !! Thanks Chris.
You're welcome!
Great tutorial, very useful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome Chris!!! Great trick!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent thx Chris
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
thanks Chris... great tutorial.. very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome! Thanks Chris.
Any time!
Nice one Chris, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks Chris ❤️
Thanks Chris. Brilliant as always! Is there a stock distortion plugin in Cubase I could use instead of Sansamp?
Cool technique 👍 Thank you Chris
Hi Robert, I'm glad it helped!
Thank you!
You're welcome, bro!
Excellent as always Chris - many thanks. More like this for guitars; acoustic and electric please.
Sure!
Great bass shaping technique. Thanks Chris
You're welcome!
I never thought about using a crossover technique like this on bass. C'est trippant en esti!
Thank you for the class!
You're very welcome!
Very nice sr❤❤❤
That is what I do for the most part. Thanks Chris!
Awesome!
Thanks, Chris!
You're welcome!
Hi, Chris Thank you for the great video. Being a bass player, I'm always on the hunt for improving my recorded signal. I had a question about the compressors. Could you share the setting you use and when you record your dry signal do you use any compression? Thanks again!
Wonderful, thanks
Glad you liked it!
great video , great tip
Glad you liked it!
Beautiful as always, brother. Peace!
Thank you!
Great Video Chris!! - Thanks. Amram
My pleasure!
Cool. I used to do something like that with my amp, leaving low-end clean and high-end through a peadlboard.
Merci Chris tu arrives à point avec cette vidéo merci tu fais ma semaine 😉👍🎶
Excellent! You're welcome, mon ami!
Thank you Chris 😃👍
You're welcome!
Thanks bro
Any time
Great tip as always! Thanks for sharing! -chaz
You're welcome, bro!
Thank you Chris!!!!!
My pleasure!!
Hi Chris, I am still ploughing through your Ultimate course on Cubase(great info by the way ) but couldn't resist watching this one being a bass player myself. What can I say I'm a fan...Keep up the good work :-)
Cool, thanks, that's awesome :-)
Hi Chris, nice job as usual. I wonder on which bass guitar this was played. Ciao
perfect and thank you ;)
You're welcome!
very helpful
Glad you think so!
Great tip, Chris! I've been getting excellent results from the Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI pedal. I can get just about any sound I need out of it from clean DI, or amp simulation and drive, with any amount of blend thereof. Highly recommended!
Good stuff! That's good to know!
Hey Chris. Very good advice- thanx. I use Magneto II on the bass channel to bring at the mid range to taste.
Magneto is a good one for sure!
best trick ever😊
I do something similar but with two copies of the DI'd bass. Other than a bit of compression I leave the DI'd bass alone - perhaps notch some annoying frequencies. have a high passed distortion track like yours and a sub bass copy - the "glued" preset of the stock Steinberg Bass VST is a great start, then I blend in some sub content with BX subsynth. All three tracks then go to a bass group track with gentle compression to glue it.
TnX from bass player!!
Morning Chris. I spun your new single about a half a dozen times. Nice tune and great groove. Your female vocalist has a lovely voice. So you should get a cheque for .005 cents really soon: “let the good times roll”!
All kidding aside. Great job.
Very Nice video explanation, i guess i used that technique 1 or 2 Times, but i Kind to forget 😁 thanks for this reminder C Selim
My pleasure! :-)
Yes, yes, yes. If mister Selim talks about mixing bass, hearing is obliged.
By the way, I was wondering if a future version (Cubase 20, year 2040, maybe) will have the possibility to do crossovers in the sends. One could do the processing in FX channels with one source. Well, we can add manually the filters in each channel, but that could be an improvement in workflow.
Nice 👍
Thanks ✌
In Cubase you can use only onstock plugins for this:
Quadrafuzz (2 Bands!) + Multiband Compression (same bandwidth) 😊
Great one!
Why don’t you show us how you mixed the drums? Sound amazing
Text-book , fool-resistant bass guitar wrangling. Thanks Much, Chris!
You're welcome, John!
Thank you, very interesting video! I started to use Amplitube as plug in of Cubase. Do you know if it is possible to make Amplitude to receive program change from cubase (I can’t manage to do that). many thanks!
Hey chris,
Little late on this video,but as mixing my own bass tracks,i duplicate my track and then,send them to a big compression so that paralel compression occurs.althought,i've noticed you didnt pan your channels hard left and right...is this something you recommend for a bass guitar normally?..or for example,if ive recorded a little sample bass track in the chorus to make it "punchier",should that track stays centre?..my biggest issues in my last mixes was a lot with the panning stuff so im really curious about how to do it properly with each track!
Thanks for your reply
Hi Chris, awesome tutorial as ever! From your experience, in this case of splitting, what would you think of using the two instances of pro q3 in linear phase mode? Cheers!
You can fir sure, but not a must as far as you pay attention to phase
@@mixdownonline Thanx a lot!
Very interesting. The only thing is that I don't really understand why bass is always very low in volume. Just let it be heard, the whole song would benefit from it.
Agreed and it’s very frustrating. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase balanced mix and everything but bass is “balanced”.
@@Yaksonator Bass takes a lot of the headroom of the song, quickly saturates the sound if you push it too much
@@Fernando-ry5qt Yes, if you don't know how to use eq
@@deathforall2045 Can't beat physics, even with an EQ
@@Fernando-ry5qt It is full of great albums with the bass standing out beautifully, without compromising the other instruments. Has anyone managed to beat physics? I don't think so. Good equalization and compression are the basis of the basics of music production, especially in a genre as busy as metal. There are a lot of productions where unnecessary frequencies of guitars, keyboards, drums or vocals are left in, producing only noise, and saturating the spectrum that should be dedicated to the bass. Making room and distributing frequencies wisely is not an option if you want a good results, even without using expensive tools.
Regarding the fact that you can't beat physics I totally agree with you, we should remember this more often when we go shopping or on vacation by taking a random plane ticket to a random destination just because it's cheap :)
I rely on Waves "In Phase" plugin for fixing phase issues. Sometimes things are not 180 degrees out. The Guitars and Bass phase seem to always be a little out when you re-amp, it really helps fixing that. Plus it's a huge time saver for my one room studio where you can't hear phase relationships until playback.
I never worked with this plugin yet, but I will give it a try
Sound Radix plug-in ‘Pi’ is another good alternative for this too
@@simonslee73 I was going to say I will give that a try but at $249 I will suffer on with the inphase plugin which is only $29 right now. It does look cool though.
yet another very useful video. Now I have a problem - ALL your videos are so relevant for me, Chris! and I just don't have the time to assimilate all the tips and tricks. well, poco a poco ...
Oh Yeah! Glad to know that, Henry! Always happy to help out :-)
Merci merci
Bienvenu
Great tutorial! How can I get that sound playing LIVE? 🤔
For Live, use a great Bass Amp, that simple :-)
This is a great way to put a bass sound together. Thanks for sharing this with us all.
You're welcome!
Chris, is it recommended on a midi track where is recorded a bass line, to convert it into audio and to put the VST BASS AMP RACK plugin in insert?
This is what I do on my side, I always bounce my Midi to Audio before Mixing
Great tutorial 🤘May I ask you, which preamp did you use for the bass? Cheers from Stockholm.
I like to use the Drawmer 1960's DI, it has a dedicated tube to it. Cheers brother :-)
Thanks for the replay. I just got a used UA 710 Twin for my bass guitar. However, can't compare with others.
Have to say thanks for sharing. Maybe I am old school or just wrong, but the end result sounded thin for a bass guitar to me. Similar to a guitar that someone tried to make sound like a bass guitar.
👑👑
Bonjour Chris. Dans Cubase, est-ce qu'il y a un avantage à avoir une track MixBus avec les inserts et rien dans la track sortie out (comme ton exemple)?
Ça dépend de ton workflow. C'est pas un "must" mais ça peut-être pratique pour une situation de routing ou tu voudrais ecouter une piste sans passer par le Mix Buss, comme un track référence, si tu passe pas par le Control Room
Thanks , Can i use it on midi bass with ezbass plugin ?
No, absolutely not! The plugin police will respond immediately. Of course you can, I do a similar processing for kick drums also.
"The Plugin Police" 😂😂
What the hell is your screen resolution ?! lol
That's a lot of work for a simple bass track. Hell, most of your audience probably doesn't even have the CPU needed for this many plugins on a simple bass track. Overkill.
Not sure what kind of mixing you get up to where EQ, compression and distortion is "overkill". Seems like a very reasonable array of plugins to me.
@@lafarga2330 It' the NUMBER of plugins used. I'm not saying the types. I mean jeezuz. If you can't make it sound right at the source and have to use 50 plugins on the final mix, maybe you need to do a rethink..
Nice tuto de clairement un Quebecois! 😉