DopplerShift Atrophy

[Roy]

I don't remember the bass tracks on this one. I will say I've had a lot of success with Michael Brauer's* technique of splitting the bass and having an "Anchor" channel and a definition channel and blending the two. I take it a few steps farther where the Anchor channel is almost all low end, anywhere from 150hz on down to 100 or 90 and the definition track is filtered at about 250hz on up. And even though they have their own compression I'll send them to another bus and do come compression and maybe some eq. Most of the time the bass isn't eq'ed it's just the blend of two.

*From Brauer's Q&A
"I've run into that problem many times. Sucks doesn't it? This is how I deal with it; I always bring the bass amp and direct on two channels, float them to two busses and bring the two busses back on two channels. One channel has a 747 across it and the other has a dbx on it. The function of the 747 is to be the anchor and hold down the bottom end. I'll eq and compress it so that it sounds warm and fat, no top. I take the dbx and squeeze the tits out of it. I'll eq out (sharp Q) any notes that jump out and I'll take out a lot of the bottom. So now I have my bottom end from the 747 and my mid range and clarity from the dbx. Then I put a crank call in to the guy that recorded it and I'm ready to mix."