So this kind of forces you to learn what different frequencies sound like. You don’t have the visual aspect of it like you do in a graphic equalizer. Just for the simple fact that it kind of helps you associate a sound to a number, you know. And I advise you guys use parametric EQ’s when you can. And about the EQ, this is just a parametric EQ from the Waves Gold Bundle. I feel like it loses a little bit of usable information when I go to 3.9 so let’s go to 5.6. I really don’t notice anything really past 5.6. And I’m also gonna put a low pass so let’s kind of listen and see where we lose usable information when I put on the low pass. So I’m gonna put another high pass at 47 Hz even though I tracked with one. So let’s let it just kind of loop through and go for it. So, I’ll wipe everything clean here and we’ll just kind of go through the EQ here together. What you should always really be doing for the bass guitar and for most instruments really is start by cutting, you know, pull out frequencies before you boost to keep it sounding natural, and especially if you’re putting an EQ before a compressor I don’t advise boosting any frequencies if you want that compressor to behave uniformly and really react naturally to the track. And a little bit busy for me, so right in the middle at 12 o clock worked fine.Īnd now we kinda talk about EQ. You can see that the tone makes it a little darker when you go kind of clockwise - you go further clockwise and it starts getting a little too bright. I found that keeping everything at 12 o clock worked pretty well here. And here’s how it sound after that’s been added to the mix. So nothing spectacular, but what I’ve been doing is I’ve been boosting the lead with an Ibanez Tube Screamer emulation like this overdrive pedal which is also from the GTR 3 Suite as you can see. And so with just the amp sim here’s what we’ve got. Pulled a little bit of the mids out, boosted a little treble, and a bit of the bass as well. So I have a little bit of drive dialed in there and there was some minor EQ made there. It’s much better on bass than it is guitar. I haven’t been super stoked on the GTR 3 stuff, but I mean this worked fine for the application. I didn’t use an impulse on this particular track here.
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I always tend to start with the amp simulator when I’m working with a DI track and in this case I used the Waves GTR 3 super tube preamp model with a bass 8×10 cabinet. So we’ll go ahead and start with the processing and show you guys how I approached this. It has a really nice kind of warm sound to it - I liked that as well. So I’ll kind of just solo this sound too again. And I put a high pass filter at about 45 Hz going in as well. As you can see the waveform is not super dynamic how it went in. Because it was a really dynamic performance and I didn’t want to clip the convertors and I wanted to make sure everything was going in pretty solid. There was a little bit of tracking compression applied at about a 3 to 1 ratio to kind of tame some of the peaks.
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For this track I ended up using a Fender Jaguar with a single coil pickup into an ART MPA-2 Preamp, which was subsequently followed by an ART Pro VLA Compressor. There’s definitely some gain on there which is something I wanted.įirst of all, you know, getting a good bass sound for this genre like any genre really starts with getting a good raw recording. So, I mean I ended up with a pretty aggressive sounding bass - a lot of percussiveness and it’s also kind of grindy. So here’s kind of the sound I ended up getting. So I’ll go ahead and play the processed track back in context with the guitars and the drums so you can hear, just FYI this was a DI bass - it wasn’t blended with a recorded bass. You know, whether it be DI or a recorded bass, you know, a mic in front of an amp and cabinet, it really applies to either situation.
I’ve been with a lot of different metal sub-genre tracks recently and I kind of wanted to share some of my techniques that I’ve been implementing when mixing bass guitar. I think I’ve got some stuff for you guys today. And I’m here today with my first ever mixing tutorial. What’s up everyone, this is Derek Pearson from Equinox Project Studio.
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