22-06-2018, 11:59 PM
(22-06-2018, 03:22 PM)Blitzzz Wrote: I do, and it's easy. Split the bass into two tracks, lowcut one at 500hz, highcut the other track at 200-250hz, maybe lower depending on the song/tuning.
You now have two bass tracks, lets call them low bass and high bass.
Put L1 on the low bass track and hammer it until you have no movement at all. I mean ZERO dynamics. STOP when you hear too much distortion and back it off a little. Done.
Now make a conscious decision if you want to put the low bass track below or above the kick and either carve a hole in your low bass track for the kick (if you want the kick to be above the bass) OR use a low cut filter on the low bass track and cut the bass until there is no bass sound at and below the kick frequency. Sometimes you have to be drastic, sometimes they fit naturally, but the low bass and kick track should sound like a unit.
Now put a distortion plugin on the high bass track, maybe boost 750 hz with a broad q (it works wonders - believe me), filter out some of the nasty stuff (if needed - don't kill it) and use L1 again to the kill the dynamics. Use the volume faders of both channels to blend them into the mix.
done.
Two bass tracks
You can also use the Nolly method:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq62X1hQoFY
Damn.. I did something similar but I didn't split the HP LP filters.. I just added an extra track with hight end distort. I shall try this in the later days when I really open the project. Thanks blitzz. Hope you can swing by my mix to give me some pointers on it.
