04-04-2019, 05:28 PM
(04-04-2019, 04:11 AM)Drummer Craig Wrote: May I ask what you did to get that delicious sounding bass guitar?
On the channel I pushed a generous amount of 1.2KHz and 2KHz with moderate bell curves, dropped several dB at 200Hz (with a fairly wide bell), and bumped up a couple dB with a shelf at 60Hz. Compressed (LA-3A style) at 3:1 (slow attack, fast release) to get a max reduction of about 6dB. On the bass bus, I applied a dynamic EQ to reduce some resonant frequencies and tacked an Opto limiter (fast attack, moderate release, soft knee) at the end of the chain to do another (max) 3 dB of reduction. The bass is also going to the "Rear Bus" (the technique made famous by Andrew Scheps), where everything but the drums are sent to a compressor, and feathered into the mix as a parallel process.